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CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOTANY. 
apice truncato et subreflexo. Petala nulla. Stamina nulla. 
Ovarium solitarium, gibboso-orbiculare, 1-loculare, loculo lu- 
nato ; ovulum unicum, loculo conforme, funiculo brevi a medio 
faciei ventralis appensum. Stylus hre\is. Stigma hrexiter S- 
lidum, laciniis liuearibus, sulcatis, reflexis. Drupa subglobosa, 
stigmatepersistente ad bilum proximo notata,carnosa;^M/a/nen 
tenuiter osseum, late subovatum, compressum, peripheriam 
versus utrinque spinis obtusis recurvo-hamatis in seriebus 3 
circa condylum hippocrepicis concentrice dispositis echinatum, 
1-loculare, loculo lunato; condylus disciformis, excentralis, 
utrinque concavus, imperforatus, medio stria longitudinali 
sulcatus ; semen loculo conforme ; embryo ignotus. 
Frutex in regionibiis Himalayce scandens folia majuscula, vix 
peltata, oblonga, imo cordata, a medio sensim angustiora, 
apice acuta, a basi 7-nervia, coriacea, subtus pubescentia, 
petiolo tereti, limbo breviore : inflorescentia c? ? racemi- 
formi-paniculata, pubescens, ramis alternis, divaricatis, iterum 
divisis, bracteolatis ; flores minimi, pedicellati, glabri. 
Peraphora robusta, nob. ; — Cyclea populifolia, f/ooli. 7%. FI. 
Ind. i. 202; — Menispermea, Griffiths in Itin. Boot. ii. 114 
& 165 ; Icon. Boot. tab. 22 & 23 ; — ramis crassiusculis, tortim 
striato-sulcatis, cortice glauco et rimoso; ramulis flexuosis, 
striatis, pubescentibus ; foliis vix peltatis, deltoideo-oblongis, 
imo profunde cordatis, lobis basalibus rotundatis, sursum 
gradatim angustioribus, apice acutis et mucronulatis, a basi 
7-9-nerviis, nervis teniiibus, extus ramosis, coriaceis, supra 
nitidis, Isevissimis, pallidis, subtus lurido-glaucis, sparsim 
rigide puberulis, nervis venisque transversis valde promi- 
nentibus; petiolo pubescente, subtenui, apice incrassato, imo 
longe tumidulo, tortuose flexo, limbo dimidio breviore : pani- 
culis subbrevibus, e nodis annotinis aphyllis plurimis, fasci- 
culatis, pubescentibus; ramis alternis, brevibus, divaricatis, 
iterum divisis, ramulis corymbifloris, floribus minimis ; pedi- 
cellis brevissimis, glabris ; calyce subgloboso, glabro : racemis 
$ ramosis, ex axillis solitariis, vel e nodis (foliis delapsis) 
binis, elongatis, puberulis; ramis alternatim divaricatis, ramu- 
lisque brevibus, imo bracteolatis, ramulis ultimis floribus 2-3 
breviter pedicellatis et fasciculatis munitis, pedicellisque 
sericeo pilosis ; sepalis et ovariis glabris. — In Himalaya orien- 
tal! : V. s. in herb. Mus. Brit, et Leman. ? , Bhootan (Griffiths, 
1732) : in herb. Hook. Sikhim (Hook. & Th.); et ? , 
Bhootan (Griffiths, 1731 et 1732). 
Griffiths, in his ‘ Itinerary,^ has given a very good description 
of both sexes of this plant, without referring it to any particular 
genus. He found the specimens in the forests of Panee, on the 
