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simis, 1-floris—In Africa orientali, v. s. in herb. Hook., Lower 
Shire Valley, Zambesi (Dr. Kirk). 
A climbing plant, collected durmg Dr. Livingstone’s explora- 
tions up the River Zambesi, having slender branches 3-1 line 
in diam., with internodes of 13-24 inches; leaves 2-22 inches 
from the end of the basal lobes to the apex, or 13-23 inches 
long from the basal sinus, 1?—2} inches broad, with a petiole 
14 inch long; the punctate raised dots on the upper surface of 
the leaves are not at all scabrid; the raceme is 5-7 inches long. 
11. Tinospora Smilacina, Bth. Proc. Linn. Soe. v. Suppl. 52 ;— 
glabra; ramulis subcoriaceis ; foliis deltoideo-ovatis, profunde 
cordatis, sinu subangulato, lobis basalibus intus rectis, extus 
rotundatis, apice acutis et acuminatis, imo 5-nerviis, utrinque 
glabris et pallidis, nervis supra immersis, subtus prominulis, 
reticulatis ; petiolo tenwi limbo dimidio breviore; racemis 
axillaribus, simplicibus, petiolo paulo longioribus, imo foliolis 
minimis petiolatis donatis ; floribus parvis viridulis.—In Aus- 
tralia centrali, v. s. in herb. Hook., Plains of Promise (Dr. 
Moore). 
This is a slender climbing plant, with imternodes of 1-14 
inch ; its leaves, from the basal lobes to the apex, 24-33 lines 
long, or from the basal sinus 19-25 lines long, 26 lines broad, 
with a petiole 10-12 lines long. The ¢ raceme is 18 lines long, 
pedicels 1 line long, with petiolated bracts at base 2 lines long ; 
the three inner sepals are ovate, 1 line long, the membranaceous 
obovate petals } line long; its drupes are ovate, 3 lines long. 
[To be continued. ] 
XXXIV.—New Observations on the Existence of Man in Central 
France at a period when that Country was inhabited by the 
Reindeer and other Animals which are now extinct there. By 
MM. Larter and Curisty, in a Letter from M. Larter to 
Prof. Milne-Edwards ; communicated by him to the Academy 
of Sciences in Paris*, 
In support of the remarks made by you, at one of the recent 
meetings of the Academy, with regard to the figures of animals 
engraved on bones found in the cavern of Bruniquel, I have, in 
my own name and that of Mr. H. Christy, F.G.S., to inform you 
of several other facts of the same nature. We shall, however, 
limit ourselves for the present to mentioning the discoveries 
made by us, during the last five months of the year 1863, in that 
part of the old province of Périgord which now forms the arron- 
* Translated by W.S. Dallas, F.L.S., from the ‘Comptes Rendus,’ 
February 29, 1864. 
