SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES ON AMERICAN MENISPERMACEAE XVII NEOTROPICAL TRICLISIEAE AND ANOMOSPERMEAE B. A. Krukoff Consulting Botanist of Merck Sharp & Dohme Research Labora-tories, N.J. and Honorary Curator of New York Botanical Garden. In Supplementary Notes #14 (16) I stated "Plants of Menis-permaceae are among the most unsatisfactory creations of nature from the taxonomist's point of view. Flowers are very small and dioecious, and some genera can be told apart only on fruit and seed characters." 1. Work since 1937 to 1951 (incl.) In collaboration with H. N. Moldenke, I started to work on this family in 1937. Previous to this, L. Diel's monograph published in 1910 (19) was the only compact treatment of the entire family. The progress of our studies can be seen from Table #1. Number of species known in: Abuta Anomospermum Chondrodendron Sciadotenia Telitoxicum 34 49 76 Our main task in that period was getting fertile specimens collected and match up flowering material of the two sexes. As Rupert Bameby stated, the two tribes were in the state of a house kept in smart repair above ground but with neglected foundations. 2. Work of Rupert Bameby on Generic Segregation in 1970 The Supplementary Notes #8 (10) rectified this omission and started a new era after Bameby made a systematic generic survey stressing characters of the drupe and embryo, and we made keys, whenever possible one for each sex, to the species of each genus. 80
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