46 Mr. Colebkooke on the Indian Species of Menispermum. 



with Mi myosotoides. He asks, " Can they be the same?" He 

 first described it on the coast of Coromandel ; and, re-examinin o- 

 it in Bengal, delineated anew the fruit, and identified it with 

 Gaertner's Wal-tiedde. 



I cannot but deem it distinct from Willdenow's M. hirsutum, 

 as well as Lamarck's M. villosum, on account of the difference of 

 the inflorescence joined to that of the leaves ; and I therefore 

 insert the whole of Roxburgh's description for the purpose of 

 comparison. 



We have thus four species nearly allied, yet sufficiently discri- 

 minated by their leaves, inflorescence, and other specific marks : 

 two of them hitherto unpublished. A third unpublished species 

 with downy leaves may be added from Roxburgh. It is his 

 M. tomentosum, described with leaves anteriorly three-lobed, 

 racemes axillary, and nectarial scales entire. 



M. fenestratum of Gaertner has been noticed by Decandolle, 

 as by earlier writers, among " species not sufficiently known ;" 

 remarking, that the fruit alone has been examined*." He was 

 unapprised that t4 the plant had been figured and described by 

 Roxburgh, from whose manuscript I subjoin a description of the 

 female plant. 



It will be observed, that Roxburgh testifies the accuracy of 

 Gaertner in his representation of the seed. He has also cited 

 that eminent carpologist's figure and description of M. Coccuhis 

 as a correct representation t. His testimony, though not pointed, 

 must seem to extend to the peculiar character so particularly 

 noticed by Gaertner, and affirmed by him to belong to all the 

 species of the genus, however much these vary in the number of 

 floral parts, yet all agreeing in the singular position o( the coty- 



* Reg. reg. i. 541. Vide Lam. Dict.'iv. 101 ; and Martyn, Diet. vol. ii. 

 f FL Lid. Mss. cit. Dec. Reg. Veg. \. 520. 



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