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most of the following species, indicated by me many years ago. 
Mr. Bentham, in his ‘ Notes on Menispermacece,’ above cited, 
confounded these five species into one, and in too hasty a man- 
ner fused them all into the Chondodendrum tomentosum of the 
‘ Flora Peruviana,’ a totally distinct plant. Poppig describes 
this species as climbing to the height of 20 feet, its branches 
being fistulose, with internodes of 2^ inches; its leaves, ap- 
parently of thin texture, are 4| inches long (with a basal sinus 
I inch deep), 3^ inches broad, on a slender petiole 6 inches long. 
The $ raceme is 4^ inches long, the sepals 3 lines long, acute, 
they and the scale-like petals being of a chestnut colour; the 
ovaries are gibbous, with a nearly sessile refracted stigma, which 
is acuminately deltoid, convex, and longitudinally carinated. 
The drupe is oval, 8 lines long, of a blackish-purple colour, 
copiously succulent, containing a putamen which is orbicular, 
compressed, with a radiately striated margin. He describes it 
as being 2 lines broad ; but it is figured as 4^ lines long, 3^ lines 
broad : be omits all mention of the seed, though he states that 
the embryo is peripheric, the meaning of which it is impossible 
to conjecture ; but, as he gives no figure, I conclude that these 
words have been inserted by mistake. 
4. Odontocarya tamoides, nob. ; — Cocculus tamoides, DC. Syst. 
i. 521, Prodr. i. 97 ; — ramulis scandentibus, teretibus, cortice 
I’esiliente, tuberculis sparse verrucosis ; foliis orbiculari-ovatis, 
late cordatis, obtusis, mucronulatis, subcoriaceis, utrinque 
glaberrimis, imo 5-uerviis, margine translucente, valde reticu- 
latis, nervis tenuibus venisque subtus prominulis, sub lente 
minutissime pellucido-punctulatis ; petiolo brevi, striato, apice 
basique articulate, et paulo incrassato ; racemis solitariis, 
axillaribus, fiuformibus, omnino glaberrimis ; fioribus minimis, 
breviter pedicellatis, subfasciculatis, axillis 1-bi’acteatis. — Prov. 
Rio de J aneiro, v. v. in sinu Jurujuba. 
As this plant agrees so well with the characters assigned by 
DeCandolle to his Cocculus tamoides, I have considered them as 
identical, although the typical plant (perhaps erroneously) is 
stated to be from Cayenne. The leaves are nearly of an oval 
shape, somewhat pallid, and of a firmer texture than any of the 
other species : they are 1|— 3|- inches long, 1:^-1 1 inch broad, on 
a petiole f inch long. The simple ^ raceme is about 2J inches 
long, with two to three pedicels fasciculated at alternate intervals 
of 1 or 2 lines, where there is a minute subulate glabrous bract ; 
the minute flowers have six oval membranaceous sepals, six ob- 
ovate petals one-fourth their length, six stamens nearly as long 
as the petals, with short, broad, membranaceous filaments united 
at base, the distinct anther-cells being imbedded in the filament : 
