316 Mr. J. Miers on the Menispermacez. 
lated, subosseous putamen, having a globular, hollow, internal 
condyle on the ventral face, with a small external aperture : 
round this condyle the meniscus-shaped seed, which fills the 
cell of the putamen, is moulded, and attached by the longitudinal 
line of the raphe. The embryo (as in all the rest of the Hetero- 
cliniee) has a superior terete radicle and large divaricating folia- 
ceous cotyledons, imbedded in distinct cells of a copious rumi- 
nated albumen. 
Tinospora, nob.—Fores dioici. Masc. Sepala 6, biseriata, 
exteriora minora, obovata, glabra, submembranacea, margine 
eroso-crenulata; «estivatione imbricata. Petala 6, minuta, 
sepalis opposita, imo subunguiculata, apicem versus 3-loba, 
lobis Jateralibus inflexis, stamina amplectentibus. Séa- 
mina 6, libera, divaricato-patentia, petalis opposita: filamenta 
longiuscula, apice clavato-incrassata; anthere 2-lobz, sub- 
extrorse, lobis oblongis, apice conniventibus, imo divaricatis, 
utrinque lateraliter semi-immersis, rima obliqua fere marginali 
longitudinaliter dehiscentibus. Ovaria rudimentaria nullaa— 
Fem. Sepala ut in mase. Petala minuta, spathulato-oblonga, 
erecta. Stamina sterilia, 6, petalis opposita, breviora et cum 
illis imo gyneecii affixa: anthers effcetis. Ovaria 3, gibboso- 
oblonga, libera, supra gyneecium cylindricum imposita, erecta, 
1-locularia; ovu/o unico anatropo supra medium loculi ex 
angulo interno funiculo brevi appenso. Stylus brevis, 
crassus. Stigma subliguliformi-peltatum, subcavum, mar- 
gine sinuatum, aut profunde 3-laciniatum, laciniis ineequa- 
libus rotundatis. Derupe 8, vel abortu pauciores, globose, 
gibbosule, carnos, breviter stipitate, stigmate persistente 
subexcentrico apiculate : putamen osseo-pergamineum, com- 
presso-subglobosum, dorso convexius, hie sepe tuberculatum, 
sutura peripherica, sub-2-valvare, ventre subplanum, hine 
mtus condylo magno cavo globoso usque ad medium loculi 
protenso, meatu externo lineari perforato instructum. Semen 
loculo conforme, meniscoideum, ad faciem ventralem valde 
cavum: itegumenta tenuissima, intra fissuras albuminis pli- 
cata, raphe ventrali longitudinali signata: embryo intra albu- 
men 2-laminare inclusus, lamina dorsali tenui, simplici, 
ventrali crassiore, in rugas plurimas transversas profunde ru- 
minata; cotyledonibus tenuissime foliaceis, ovatis, 8-nerviis, 
valde divaricatis, in locellis sejunctis utrinque absconditis, 
radicula supera tereti multo longioribus. 
Frutices alte scandentes, Asie, Australasia, et A [frice intertropice : 
folia petiolata, cordata, submembranacea, 3—5-nervia: racemi 
simplices, extra-axillares ; ramis plurimis, imo bracteatis, 1-4- 
floris ; flores aggregati, flavi. 
