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CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOTANY. 
In its incised leaves it somewhat resembles Jateorhiza, Calyco- 
carpum, and' Menispermum, the former more especially in its 
long strigose pubescence; in the compression of its six thick 
fleshy petals into a shape somewhat like a trigonoid disk, it 
approaches Anomospermum. The branch is very flexuose, with 
axils 6^ inches apart ; the leaves are 7\ inches long, 5 j inches 
broad, with a rounded basal sinus f-l| inch deep, leaving two 
rounded basal lobes ; from the middle upwards they are divided 
into three lobes, with a narrow very acute sinus between them, 
the middle lobe being 4^ inches long, 2 inches broad, the two 
lateral lobes, of the same breadth, are 2| inches long; the petiole 
is 4 inches long; the spicated raceme is 6-7 inches long or 
more; the bracts are 1 line long; the flower expanded is 3 lines 
in diameter. 
64. Quinio. 
This genus was proposed by Schlechtendal in 1853 (Linnaea, 
xxvi. 732) for an Indian plant received from Hohenaeker, respect- 
ing which much doubt has existed. It was referred by the former 
botanist to the Menispermacea ; but, as its floral parts are penta- 
merous, it has been rejected from the order by most authorities. 
Notwithstanding this decision, I entertain no doubt that it is a 
truly Menispermaceous plant; and, before explaining the reasons 
for this opinion, I will recapitulate its characters as recorded by 
Schlechtendal. It is entirely glabrous, its branches sulcately 
striated and black ; its leaves alternate, transversely suborbi- 
cular, cordate at base, retuse and mucronated at the summit, 
5-nerved, the nerves branching externally, glaucous beneath, 
2 inches long, 2^ inches broad, on a petiole 4 inches long, which 
is swollen af base and articulated upon the stem, almost palately 
genieulated with the limb at the junction of the nerves. It has 
a very elongated racemose panicle, with a black rachis 10 or 12 
inches long, with alternate spreading branches 2^ inches long, 
bearing at their summit several branchlets, often so much ap- 
proximated as to appear almost umbelliform, each bearing from 
one to three flowers obsoletely pedicellated : the glabrous flower 
consists of five imbricated, obovate, concave sepals, which are 
maculated in interrupted longitudinal lines ; it has five petals 
somewhat shorter and narrower than they, spathulately rhom- 
boid, with their lateral margins lobulated and indexed ; five 
stamens opposite to and somewhat longer than they, and affixed 
to their claws, bearing on their apex two minute effete anther- 
cells, slightly divai’icated at base ; in the centre are three distinct 
ovaries, ovate, very gibbous, each containing a single ovule, and 
surmounted by a short style with a very thick dilated stigma. 
