Idmaeia.] v. menispermace^. (Hook. f. & Thorns.) 101 



. From Meroui to Malacca, Penang and Singapore, &c. 



Pubescence yellowish. Leaves 2-6 by f-4 in., variable, obtuse acute or rounded, 

 me rounded or acute, triple-nerved, usually glabrous above ; petiole 4-1 j in. Fanichs 

 axillary or supra-axillary, solitary few or many, tomentose, flowers villous. Inner 

 f^pals orbicular, valvate. Drupes 1 in. long, obovoid, compressed, glabrous. 



Aristega Imvifolia, Miers Contrib. iii. 376, t. 151, a plant collected by Heifer in the 



Andamana, or in Moulmein, and of which male flowers alone are known, is probably a 

 d-petalous Limacia, 



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10. COCCUZ.US, DC. 



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am 11 ^' ■^^^'"'^^^ panicled. Sepals 6, 2-seriate, outer smaller. Petals 6, 

 S ' ^^^^^^y auricled. Male fl. : Stamens embraced by the petals, 

 orft n S'lbglobose, cells bursting transversely. Fem. fl. : Staminodes 6 

 "^ V* ^^^J'ies 3-6 ; styles usually cylindric. Drupes laterally compressed ; 

 enoocarp horseshoe-shaped, dorsally keeled and tubercled, sides excavate. 

 ma curved, albumen fleshy : embryo annular, cotyledons linear, flat, ap- 

 Pressed-DisTRiB. AU warm cUmates. 



In?;, *'\-'?*,*"'°*'*'*P"»» W. (fc A. Prodr. 13 ; leaves suborbicular glabrous 

 r°'P^*foled panicles 6-12 in., drupes obovoid-oblong. H.f. & T. Fl. Ind. 

 tiJrJtl-^- ^^''^- Diploclisia macrocarpa, lepida, inclyta and pic- 

 mervis, Mters Contrib. iii. 280-284, t. 127. Quinio cocculoides, Schkcht. m 

 ■f'Wncca xxvL 732. 



BrT l!h ^ j''*^^^ southwards, and in Ceylon.— Distrib. China, 

 oltuse ^r ^®^' ^*"^*^- -i^««ws 2-3 in., rather broader than long, 5-tierved, 



petiole 9^°^^ °'" i^^^^^ ^^"*®' subrepand, glaucous beneath, base truncate or cordate ; 

 w axill ^°'c -™"'"<^^^* chiefly in the old blanches ; flowers corymbose or fascicled, 

 1 in lt7' ^^PO'^ membranous, and 3-lobed petals streaked with purple. Drupe 

 *"i., endocarp thin, woody. . ^ « 



DeLwi ^?."T**o"«Sf DC. Prodr. i. 100 ; a tree, leaves lanceolate short- 

 l Tot m]^^^ Panicles axillary shorter than the leaves. Deless. Ic Sd. 

 Hok Vi r 5..^^- 4965 ; H.f.d; T. Fl. Ind 191. Menisp. laurifolmm, 

 Omri i- • ^^ SI 5- Holopeira laurif olia, australis and f usiforrais, Murs 



4aJTr*'t'' Himalaya, alt. 2500 ft., from Nipal to Jamu, WaUich, &c.-Di8trib. 



W "/I'r'V ^a°<^hes pendulous, angled, striate, smooth, branchlets bearded at the 

 ■Ponk^T f- ^^ ^"^i in., coriaceous, acute or acuminate, 3-nerved ; petiole \-k m- 

 niinute % ^"7'' ^"li'ary or 2 superposed, corymbose, male largest ; bracts and Bowers 

 'ndocan, fr ^"1 '"'^*^- -P<^<«^ 2-lobed. Styles reflexed. Drupes minute, globose ; 

 ^ fragile, rugose. 



subdeltnL*^^°f "^' ^^- P^'<>d' i- 98 ; branchlets villous, leaves ovate-oblong 

 kerned J' ^"«. male fl. in short panicles, fem. 1-3 axillary rare y 

 Ct 8epL^5; ?"*• 4957 ; W. <k A. Prod. 13 ; H. /. <k T. Fl. hid .193. 

 lochiT n^^ ^^^'*' ^"^ ^'•«'^- Linn. Soc. xiii. 58. C. liastatus a«4 aristo- 

 W- ph^-L^^' Menisp. viUosum, Lamk. (not Roxb.). M.. hirsutum, 

 ^icuh,^- f^' ^«^- i"- 814. M. myosotoides, Linn. Holopeira vUlosa, 

 ThrmioT '''''^ auriculata, Miers Contrib. iii. 271-273, t. 126. 



^^^'-^S S p'P^"^*^ ^^<i subtropical India, from the base of the Himalaya to 

 Africa. ^^ ^^«" (absent in the Eastern Peninsula and Ceylor^.-DisTEiB. Trop. 



•««»etm,e8 ql7 i ir2 '"•. sometimes sublanceolate, retuse or obtuse and mucronate, 



«8.3-Iobed, base subcordate or truncate, y6«ig viUous on both surfaces, pe- 



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