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lobis brevibus, teretibus, suberectis. Drupa transversini 
ovata, carnosa, styli vestigio ad hilum proximo notata ; puta- 
men obovatum, compressum, peripheriam versus utrinque liris 
7 brevibus 2-tuberculatis radiatim dispositis muricatum, 
1-loculare, loculo hippocrepiformi circa condylum gyrato; 
condylus ovatus, laminiformis, utrinque concavus et imper- 
foratus. Semen valde compressum, hippocrepiforme, extus 
utrinque radiatim sulcatum integumenta membranacea, mar- 
gine ventrali laxa, bine crassiora, et cum funiculu filiformi 
rigido intra fissuram condyli intrusa; embryo in albumine 
simplici, carnosus, teres, tenuiter elongatus, hippocrepiformis, 
cotyledonibus semiteretibus, incumbentibus, radicula sequilata, 
iis 3-plo longiore, ad stigma spectante. 
Frutex scandens Abyssinicus folia integra, peltata. deltoideo- 
ovata, glabra, \Q-nervia, petiolata ; panicula supra-axillaris, 
umbellata ; pedunculus tenuiter filiformis, glaber, apice brac- 
teatus et floribus plurimis capitato-corymbulusis munitus ; flores 
minuti, glaberrimi. 
Ileucarpus Schimperi, nob., Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 2. vii. 40; — 
Menispermum (Cocculus) Schimperi, Hochst. MS. ; — Clypea 
Abyssinica, Dill, et A. Rich. Tent. FI. Abyss, i. 9, tab. 4 ; 
Ann. Sc. Nat. xiv. 263 ; — Stephania Abyssinica, Walp. Rep. 
i. 96; Ann. ii. 21; — subscandens; ramulis striatis, glaucis, 
laevibus ; foliis profunde peltatis, deltoideo-ovatis, imo trun- 
catis vel rotundatis, apice obtusis et mucronatis, 10-11-nerviis, 
utrinque glaberrimis, supra pallidis, opacis, reticulatis, subtus 
cano-glaucis, nervis venisque reticulatis promiuulis, nervulo 
niarginali tenuiter cartilagineo ; petiolo tenuissimo, limbo 
subbreviore, glabro : panicula ^ supra-axillari, umbellata, 
glabra; pedunculo tenui, nudo, petiolo dimidio breviore, 
umbellis 6 dimidio brevioribus iterum umbellulatis bracteis- 
que 3 lanceolato-linearibus munito, umbellulis 6 imo 2-brac- 
teatis, singulis 3-radiatis, radiis pedicellos 3 alternos longius- 
culos ebracteolatos 1-floros gerentibus; floribus bine corym- 
bulosis ; petalis glabris, menibranaceis : panicula $ simillinia, 
umbellis 4^5, singulis supra basin bractea linear! pedicellis- 
que 3-5 alternis longiusculis ebracteolatis 1-floris munitis ; 
drupis glabris. — In Abyssinia, v. s. in herb, plurimis, Adowa 
(Sebimper, 178) ; in herb. Hook. $ , Adowa (Dillon, 244) ; 
^ , Oujerate (Plowden) ; ? , Ankober (Rohr. 151). 
Since my former description of Ileocarpus, fifteen months ago 
(Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 3. xiv. 372), I have seen a typical specimen 
of Dillon’s Clypea Abyssinica, which does not differ specifically 
from Hochstetter’s plant, the original type of the genus : both 
these, however, are female and fructiferous specimens. I have 
