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t. ME^NiSPERMACEJE (Hook. f. & Thoms.) [Coccuhts. 



tide i in. Panicles loosely villous; bracts minute, linear. Drupes black-purple, enJo- 

 carp acutely keeled, tubcrcled. , 



. 4. C. mollis, Wall Cat 4973 ; branchlets pubescent, leaves ovate acute 

 or acuminate white and villous beneath, panicles few-flowered. Nephroica 

 mollis, Miers Contrib, iii. 265, 



NiPAL, Wallich; Kuasia hills, alt. 5000 ft., H.f. & T. 



Branchlets striate. Leaves 2-4 by 14-2iin., of shoots often obtuse, base cordate or 

 truncate, bright green above, at length glabrate ; petiole f-1 in. Panicles axillary or 

 nearly so, on a tomentose tubercle, shorter than the leaves, males irregular cyniose, 

 cymes 4-7-flowered, bracts filiform ; females 1-3-flowered. Petals notched. Druj^es 

 pisiform, compressed ; endocarp keeled, with 4 rows of tubercles. 



6. C. Xieaeba, DC. Prodr. i. 99; brancldets puberulous, leaves linear- 

 oblong oblong or trapezoid entire or lobed glabrate, flow^ers fascicled iu the 

 axils, females subsolitary. //./, <t T. FL Ind, 192; Miers Contrih. iii. 256. 

 C. laeyis, Wall. Cat. 4975. C. glabra, W. & A. Prodr. i. 13; Miers Lc. 257. 

 C. recisus, Miers Lc. 258. 



Drier parts of Western India ; the Punjab, Sindh, and the Caknatig. — Distrie, 

 Affghauistan, Arabia, trop. and subtrop. Africa. 



Branchlets long, slender. Leaves i-14 by |-| in., very variable, angles romuled, 

 sometimes 3~5-lobed, usually obtuse and mucr.mate, base cuneate or rounded, young 

 hoary, old often glaucous on both surfaces; pedicels J-^ in. Flowers fascicled on 

 woody tubercles, pedicels 1-flowered, males dense. Drupes i^-J i^i- 



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A climbing shrub. Zmve5 subpeltate, petioles slender, articulate. Floii^s 

 in axillary cymes. Sepals 6, "with 3 bracts, outer smaller, inner spathulate. 

 Pelids 6, cuneate. Male fl, : Stamens 6, filaments cylindric; anthers ad- 

 nate, bursting transversely. Female fl. : Stamimdes 6, clavate. Ornnes 

 3 ; styles 2-partite, segments subulate. Drupes subglobose ; endocarp; 

 horseshoe-shaped, dorsally crested and echinate, sides excavated. Seed^ 

 curved ; cotyledons elongate flat, scarcely broader than the radicle. 



1. P. incanus, Miers Cmtrib. iii. 118, t. 3; leaves suborbicular ob- 

 tuse acute or retuse. P. aduncus, assamicus and membranaceus, Miers Lc* 

 119-122. Cocculus incanus, Coltb. in Trans, Linn. Soc. xiii, 57. Cissani- 

 pelos mauritiana, Wall. Cat. 49S0 {not of DC). ^'^-"-- .r\^^..cl^^r^^ Koxo.' 

 FL Ind. iii. 812 {not of LamL). 



SiKKiM, Assam, the Ivhasia hills, CHixxAGONa and throughout the Easteb^ 

 Peninsula. — Distrib. Java. 



Branchlets tomentose, then glabrate. Leaves 2-4 in. diam., base truncate or 

 cordate; petiole 1-2 in. Cymes 2--3-chot()mou.s, often many and superposed; P^ 

 duncles 1-2 in., axillary, many-flowered ; bracts subulate. Sepals villous. Pdah acute 

 or obtuse, margins incurved. Drupes red. 



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ally peltate. Flowers in axillary, cjTuose 



Sepals 6-10, free, ovate or obovate. Petals 3-5, obovate, 



Antliers 6, connate, encircling the top of the staminal column? 



bursting transversely. Fem. fl. : Serxih 1\~Tk Ppinls nf fT»P male. St^"^ 

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style 3-6-partite. 



3-5. Petals of the male. 

 0. Omry 1; style 3-6-partite. Drupe glabrous; endocarp com- 



f tressed, horseshoe-shaped, dorsally tubercled, sides hollowed and p^^' 

 orated. Seed almost annular ; cotyledons long, slender, ^-terete, appresse<t 



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