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Coscinium] v. mexispermace^. (Hook. f. & Thorns.) 99 



embracing a globose intrusion of the endocarp ; albumen fleshy, ruminate 

 in the ventral face ; embryo straight, cotyle'dons orbicular, spreading, thin 

 sinuate, laciniate, or fenestrate. — Distrib. Specias 2 ; tropical Asiatic. 



..'• ^. fenestratum, ColehrooJce in Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. Q^\ leaves 

 slightly peltate suborbicular yelK)W-tomentose beneath, heads umbelled, 

 cotyledons laciniate. Miers in Hook BoL Mag. t. 46,')8 ; Contrib. iii. 22, 



m^^/ ^'f' ^ ^' ^^- 1^^- 1"8. C. Wallichianum and Wightianum, Miers in 

 layl Ann. Ser. 2, vii. .37. Menisp. fenestratum, Gctrtn. ; DC. Prodr. i. 103 ; 

 ^oxb. Fl Ind, iii. 809. Cocculus Blunieanus, Wall Cat 4971 (jmrtly). 

 I'ereira medica, Lindl Fl Med. 370. 



_ WESTERN Peninsula, Herh. Wight.; Mala(.'CA, 3Iaingay; Singapore, Wallich; 

 V>EYLON, Central and Soudiern provinces, 

 loung shoots boary-tomenlose. 



(Specimens all imperfect.) 

 Leaves 5-7 by 4-6 in., yonng oblong-deltoid ob- 



^nrelj peltate, acuminate, glabrous above, hoary and reticulate beneath; petiole 3-5 in. 

 lieads J-| in. diam. ; pedicels 1 in. Flowers green. Fetals orbicular, acute, and 

 sepals persistent. Drupes 1-3, 4 in. diam., subglobose, villous.— Perhaps 3 species are 

 contounded here; Wight's has smaller broader and more membranops leaves, whiter 

 *^neath; the Malayan are more tomentose. 



2. C. Blumeanum, Miers Contrib. iii. 23 ; leaves deeply peltate thick 



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' ^H^TT^ ^^^*^ ^^ oblong white-tomentose 

 ^^J^dc T. Fl Ind. 179. Cocculus Blumeanus, 



. Pen'ang, Singapore and Malacca, Wallich, &c. 

 ^^■anches woollv r.^^'^i^o t io i.,r q a ;^ ^^n^ 



beneath, heads racenied. 

 Wall Cat. 5971 (parthj). 



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Leaves 7-12 by 3-6 in., peltate, obtuse or acuminate, dark green 

 ^ above: Detiole 3-5 in. Racemes 3-4 in., stout, tomentose, peduncles 1 in. 



Mai 



scHI^^^^f^ « collection contains fruits of a Cosclnium from Malacca, of -which he de- 

 veil the cotyledons as fenestrate ; the carpels are 1|-I4 in. diam., globose, bright 

 ^v:^W ^^^?;^^7^T^ ^^^y tlnc:k, endocarp woody; seed % in. diam., albumen so hard that 

 accon ^ ' f ^*^ remove the cotyledons so as to verify Maingay's description; it was 



^mpanied with leaves and flowers oi Fibraurca (Distrib. Hb. Maingay, 115). 

 pehat 1 ^P^*"'^« ^"n Maingay's herbarium has leaves like C fenestratum, but more 

 Java ' ? o ^^^^^ beneath, with very appressed pubescence ; a similar plant grows m 

 **dana bumatra. 



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A climbing shrub. . 

 Sia ^'^^^-^^*^' ^^^^^ ^ii^^^ smaller. 



Sepal 



Flowers in axillary panicles, dioecious or polygamous. 



Petals 6, minute, caneate. Male 



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druJt \ '^^'^^^^"'^y <^c'>'pels 3. Ovaries ^"12; styles short, subulate, 

 thin!!*^ ?^^' Pedicelled, subcompressed, style-scar subbasal ; endocarp 

 ruminT'^"^^^^ ribbed, grooved on both sides. Seed hooked, albumen oily, 



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cotyledons linear, fleshy, plano-convex, appressed. 



5!at?-cordate 



racemosa 



acuminate. Miers 



in Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. 67 ; leaves ovate or 



,!/• n^..j-L ::: td ♦ in-i T frat.flrnnria. 



tnalis, Miers I.e. 77, 78. T. acuminata, Mie? 

 H. f. d: T. FL Ind. 187. Menisp. acuminatum 



radiatiim r'f' ^- ^9 ; H.f. d- T. FL Ind. 187. Menisp. acuminatum ( 

 niinatiir /f^^'i- ^^' Vo\YC<xTi>nm,Roxb. FLInd.in.S\Q. Cocculus a 

 D.poW' ^^- ^'•o'^^- i 99 ; W\ <L' A. Prodr. i. 12. C. radiatus, DC. I.e. 



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