98 V. MENiSPERMACEiE. (Hook. f. & Thoms.) [Fibrmirca, 



3 minute bracts, inner larger. Petals 0. Male fl. : Stamens 6, filaments 

 clavate; antliers terminal, adnate, cells spreading, bursting vertically. 

 Female fl. : Staminodes 6. Ovaries 3, ovoid, 2 ovuled ; stigma sessile, punc- 

 tiform. Drupes % 1-seeded, oblong, terete, style-scar subterminal : endo- 

 carp oblong, dorsally convex, ventrally flattened and channelled, hardly 

 intruded. Seed oblong, terete, reniform on a transverse section, albumen 

 copious, horny ; cotyledons foliaceous, longitudinally curved, oblong, very 

 thm ; radicle short, cylindric. 



1. r. tinctoria, Lour. Fl. Cock ii. 769; leaves 3-nerved from the 

 base or above the base. If. f. dj T. Fl. Ind. 204.. F. tinctoria, fasciculata, 

 and chloroleuca, Miers Contrib. iii. 41, 42, t. 93. Cocculus Fibraurea, JJO. 

 Prodr. I 99. 



Penang, Phillips; Malacca, Griffith. — Distiub. Cochin-China, Borneo. 



Branches pale ; bark lax. Leaves 4-7 by 2-4 in., elliptic-ovate or oblong, tliicK, 

 coriaceous, obtusely acuminate, shining above, pale beneath, 3-plinerved from the base 

 or above it; petiole 1^-3 in., striate, subangular. Panicles often fascicled, much., 

 branched from the base, buds globose ; fruiting panicle 1 ft., woody; peduncles ^iJ"- 

 Drupes 1 in. — We await evidence of there being more than one known species oi this 

 genus, pending wliich we adhere to the opinion expressed in Flora Indica. Lea(^es\\^^ 

 those of 1 inomiscium petiolare, but not reticulate beneath, ti As Griffith (mss in ^^^^' 

 Hook.) correctly observes, there are 2 superposed ovules in each ovary, of which tae 

 upper only becomes a seed. . " v 



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6. ANAMIRTA, Colebrooke. 



A climbing shrub. Flowers panicled. Sepals 6, with 2 appressed bracts. 

 l^etals 0. Male fl. : Anthers sessile, on a stout column, 2-celled bursting trans- 

 versely. Fem. H. : Staminodes 9, clavate, 1-seriate. Ovaries 3, on a short 

 gynophore ; stigma subcapitate, reflexed. Drupes on a 3-fid gynopbore, 

 obliquely ovoid, dorsally gibbous, style-scar subbasal ; endocarp woody. 

 Seed globose, embracing the subglobose hollow intruded endocarp, albumen 

 dense, of horny granules ; embryo curved, cotyledons narrow-oblong thin, 

 spreading. *' , 



1. A. Cocculus, W. <Sc A. Prodr. i. 446 ; leaves ovate or ovate-cordate 

 rarely oblong-ovate, H. f. & T. Fl Ind. 185. A. paniculata, Cdeh. 3. 

 flavescens and toxifera, Miers Contrib. iii. 51. Menisp. Cocculus, L'l'^'^*^ 

 Roxb. Fl. Ind, iii. 807. M. heteroclitum, Eoxb. I.e. 817. Cocculus lacuuosns, 

 DC. Prodr. \. 97. C. suberosus, DC. Lc. ; W. <k A. Prodr. i. 11 ; Wall Cf • 

 4951 C. populifolius, DC. lc. 



Eastern Bengal; Khasta hills; Assam ; and from Coxcan and Orissa to Ckyi>o>'' 

 — DiSTuiB. Malayan Islands. 



Bark corky ; shoots stout, glahrous, striate. Leaves 4-8 in. long, as hroad or narrowe , 

 acute or acuminate, base raiely acute, glabrous above, hairy in the nerve-axils leneat , 

 base 8-nerved; p.tiole 2-6 in. Panicles on the old branches, 1-U ft-, pendulous. 

 Floiixrs \ in. diam., glabrous. Sepals deciduous. Drvpes | iu., black, glabrouSv ■; 



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7. COSCZNIVm, Colebrooke. 



Climbing shrubs. Flowers in dense globose heads. Sepals 6, with a brae ^ 

 orbicular. Petals 3, large, spreading, elliptic. Male fi. : Stainem 6, filanieuj 

 cylindric, 3 inner connate to the middle; anthers adnate, outer 1- i^^"^^p. 

 celled, bursting vertically. Fem. fl. : Staminodes 6. Ovaries 3-6, subglobose ? 

 styles subulate, reflexed Drupes globose / endocarp bony. Seed globos , 



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