322 Mr. J. Miers on the Menispermacee: 
deciduous, petiolated leaflets in the lower axils of the racemes, 
which in 7. Bakis are largely developed. The branchlets are 
slender, quite glabrous, dull, and striated with a few raised len- 
ticels, the internodes being of 2 inches; the leaves are 3-4 
inches long, 2—24 inches broad, with a petiole 1-14 inch long; 
the racemes are 4—6 inches long, the three lowermost flowerless 
axils 1 inch apart, bearing alternate leaflets similar in form, 
1 inch long, 3 inch broad, on a petiole 3 inch long; the pedicels 
are 2 lines long, 2-3 lines apart, bracteated at base, all very 
glabrous; the flowers are somewhat large, the inner sepals being 
fully 13 line long. 
9. Tinospora Bakis, nob. ;—Cocculus Bakis, A. Rich. in Guill. et 
Perott. Fl. Seneg. i. 12, tab. 4:;—rvamulis teretibus, subsube- 
rosis, glabris, striatis, cortice pallido rimoso verruculoso tectis; 
foliis oblongis, profunde cordatis, lobis basalibus rotundatis, 
apice longe acuminatis et mucronatis, canaliculato-recurvis, et 
hine subconduplicatis, submembranaceis, glaberrimis, 5—7- 
nerviis, nervis supra immersis, subtus prominulis ; pedunculis 
axillaribus, 1-3-floris, vel in ramulis novellis apice aphyllis 
racemum terminalem glaberrimum efformantibus; racemis 2 
folio brevioribus.—In Africa tropica septentrionali, v. s. in herb. 
DC., Senegambia ¢ (Perottet) ; in herb. Delessert (Heudelot) ; 
in herb. Hook., Nubia, ad Fazokel, ¢ (Kotschky, 421); Cor- 
dofan, @ (Kotschky, 244). 
I have considered the latter specimens as specifically identical 
with the former, which is the typical plant of Perottet’s collec- 
tion, the only difference being that in the former the leaves have 
a broad sinus at the base, while in the latter the basal lobes are 
separated by a more acute sinus. The leaves are 2-3 inches 
long, 2-24 inches broad, on a petiole 1-14 inch long; the axil- 
lary raceme is almost filiform, 4—6 inches long, often, but not 
always, leaf-bearing at its base, as in the preceding species, the 
leaves there being 1}—14 inch long, 11-14 inch broad, on a petiole 
4 lines long; the alternate pedicels, bracteated at base, are 
1 line long; the flower expanded, 3 lines in diam. 
10. Tinospora tenera, nob. ;—glaberrima, ramulis tenerrimis, 
teretibus, striatis, verruculoso-tuberculatis ; foliis rotundato- 
ovatis, imo cordatis, sinu acuto, lobis basalibus rotundatis, e 
medio gradatim acutioribus, apice recurvis et breviter atte- 
nuatis, vix membranaceis, 5-nerviis, nervis teneribus, supra 
rugoso-punctatis, punctis nigris, subtus pallidioribus, nervis 
venisque reticulatis paulo prominentibus; petiolo sublongo, 
tenerrimo, subito deflexo ; racemis solitariis, supra-axillaribus, 
glaberrimis, valde elongatis; rachi filiformi; pedicellis brevis- 
