Jateorhlza.] iv. menispeumace^ (oliver). 43 



narrow, with short scattered setae on the nerves and veins above and beneath ; 

 often more than 1 ft. diam. ; petiole 6 in. or more. Male flowers in long 

 racemose panicles ; bracts linear-subulate, setose-ciliate. Female flowers on 

 short, patent pedicels. I have not seen the fruit. — Cocculus palmatus, Hook. 

 Bot. Mag. 2970-71, non DC. — Jateorhiza palmata, Miers, I.e. 



Mozamb. Distr. Mozambique (also in Madagascar, Bojer). I have only seen culti- 

 vated specimens. 



This plant may prove to be a variety of J. Columba, but the few specimens which I have 

 wn would scarcely warrant their being united at present. As the specific name palmata 

 Ms been applied both to this species and the foregoing, I have thought it better to sink it 

 altogether to avoid further confusion. 



3. TINOSPORA, Miers ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. 34. 



Sepals 6, in 2 series ; 3 inner larger. Petals 6, shorter than the inner 

 sepals, shortly narrowed to the base. Male fl. : Stamens 6, free; anthers 

 ovoid or oblong-ovoid, 2-locular, dehiscing longitudinally. Female fl. : Sta- 

 minodia 6. Carpels 3, with torn stigmas. Drupes ovoid or plano-convex, 

 with the scar of the stigma near the apex ; putamen slightly concave on the 

 inner face. Seed meniscoid ; albumen fleshy, ruminate. Embryo rather 

 curved, with laterally divaricate cotyledons. — Cbmbing shrubs. Leaves usually 

 cordate. Racemes simple, slender, axillary or terminal, with fascicled or 

 solitary flowers. 



th V m f genus ' witl1 4 Asia tic, 2 Australian, and 1 African species. The description of 

 temale flow er and fruit is from the ' Genera Plantarum.' 



1- T. Bakis, Miers in Ann. Nat. Hist. Ser. 2. vii. 38. A climber, with 

 usually more or less verrucose thick and fleshy bark ; glabrous or the annual 

 shoots very thinly or ob«oletely pubescent. Leaves cordate, acute or obtuse, 

 "***, glabrous, somewhat coriaceous or rather fleshy, in our specimens not 

 exceeding ]A j„. j n breadth, on petioles of about half their length. Racemes 

 imple, axillary or terminating lateral, leafy shoots. Flowers fascicled or 

 outary, m tne axils of minute/subulate or lanceolate, glabrous bracts. Male 

 0w ers w ith the inner sepals spreading, shortly narrowed to the base. Fila- 

 ents not thickened above. Female flowers and fruit I have not seen.— 

 TOM Bakis, Rich, in Fl. Seneg. 12. t. 4. 

 Nn Pe, r C * ainea " Sene ?anibia, Leprieur and Heudelot ! 

 ProlKi nd ' Senuar . Kotscf,;,! 

 (2) r A ? a ^ lv to this species, an imperfect specimen, with $ fl., from the Zambesi country 

 Petals li. v ay be refen- ed. The filaments appear to be adherent below to their opposed 

 (Ann m ' «? is unc ertain. It is described under the name of T. tenera, by Mr. Miers 

 *«*•»* Hut. Ser. 3. xiii. 322). 



4 - TILIACORA, Colebrooke ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. 36. 



Petal PSlS 6 ' in two series > 3 outer snia11er > inner V!,lvate or scarcely imbricate. 

 Stam 8 6 ' sllorter tIian t! »e inner sepals, cuneate or unguiculate. Male fl. : 

 PerTl" a 6 ' free or co,in ate below ; anthers bilocular, dehiscing longitudinally, 

 conn : Car P els 9 -12 ; styles subulate. Drupes stipitate, obovate, laterally 

 Passed, the scar of the style uear the hilum. Putamen sulcate. Seed 



