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CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOTANY. 
supra viridibus, subnitidis, glabris, subtus bruunescenti- 
glaucis, glabris (nervis veuisque puberulis exceptis) ; petiolo 
subtenui, imo crassiore, apice tumidulo et geniculatim in- 
llexo, subpuberulo, limbo 4-plo breviore. — lu Himalaya : v. s. 
in herb. Hook., Assam (Griffiths, 1264). 
This species differs from the preceding in its longer, narrower, 
darker leaves, rounded at their base, puberulous beneath on 
their nerves and veins, with a much longer and pubescent pe- 
tiole. The internodes are less than ^ inch apart ; the leaves are 
8^-9j inches long, 2j-2| inches broad, on a petiole 2 inches 
long. The specimen has no inflorescence. 
51. Antitaxis. 
This genus was proposed by me in 1851 for a plant collected 
in Malacca by the late Mr. Griffiths, with male flowers. It is 
only lately that I have seen other specimens in fruit. It has 
large lanceolate leaves, with alternate pinnate slender nerves, 
anastomosing towards the margin, and with rather short pe- 
tioles : in the ^ it has a few slender 1 -flowered pedicels, fasci- 
culated in each axil ; in the ? the inflorescence is similar. The 
^ flower has eight sepals decussately arranged in opposite pairs, 
the two inner series being larger, equal in size, and imbricated 
in aestivation ; it has two petals alternate with the inner pair of 
sepals, and somewhat smaller than these, four stamens cruciately 
placed opposite the petals, with filaments somewhat shorter than 
they, fleshy, thickening upwards, the anthers partly immersed 
in their summits, globular, 1-lobed, opening somewhat exti’orsely 
by a diagonally transverse fissure, showing two gaping lips, as 
m Anelasma and Elissarrhena. The $ flower is unknown ; but 
the drupes are suhglobose and tomentose, with a somewhat 
reniform putamen, which is chartaceous and brittle, with an 
almost obsolete condyle in the sinus of the ventral side; the 
embryo is exalbuminous, reniformly orbicular, with large, fleshy, 
curving, accumbent cotyledons which nearly fill the cell, and a 
very minute, somewhat superior radicle. The leaves are coria- 
ceous, glabrous, shining, having a peculiar nervation resembling 
that in Pycnarrhena, Clambus, and Penianthus. In its inflores- 
cence, with several 1 -flowered pedicels fasciculated in each axil, 
it resembles Pycnarrhena, as well as in its globular anthers 
opening extrorsely hy a gaping fissui’e — a feature repeated in 
Anelasma, Jateorhiza, and Elissarrhena. The chief peculiarity 
of Antitaxis is in the dimerous arrangement of its floral parts ; 
but the Menispermaceee are far from constant in their usual 
ternary disposition, as we find also binary sepals and petals in 
