52 Mr. C o l k b rooke on the Indian Species of Menispermum . 



possibly crept in, to be corrected by future examination when 

 opportunity shall offer. 



Meantime, trusting to the usual accuracy of the observer, the 

 following essential character of a new genus is proposed on the 

 foundation of his description. Its denomination is assumed from 

 an Indian term contrasting it with a name of a common Meni- 

 spermum. 



ANAMIRTA. 



Dioicous. Cal. ext. 2-leavecl ; int. 3-leaved. Petals 3, equal. 



Nect. (int. cor.) none. Stam. many, monadelphous. Fist. 3! 



Drupes (berries) 1 — 3, 1-seeded. 

 Menispermum heteroclitum. Roxb. Mss. 



Proceeding with the task of examining Roxburgh's description 

 of plants referred by him to Alenispermum, I come to one which 

 he appears to have intended, when delineating it, to erect into a 

 genus ; a design which he abandoned when composing his Flora 

 Indica. As the plant is polygynous, and the nut affirmed to be 

 bilocular, I apprehend a doubt could scarcely exist (presuming 

 accuracy in regard to the cells of the fruit) as to the propriety of 

 pursuing his earlier view, and severing this plant, which bears 

 but a family likeness to Menispermum, and instituting a new 

 genus for its reception. 



Yet Decandolle, who identifies this plant with M. acumina- 

 tum of Lamarck, described* from a specimen communicated 

 by Sonnerat, refers it to his comprehensive genus Coccuhis; not, 

 however, without a hint for its transfer to another genus t. 



The description of the plant in question will be quoted at laro-e 

 from Roxburgh's manuscript : and the following is the essential 

 character proposed for the genus, retaining for it a vernacular 

 name, which is sufficiently sonorous, notwithstanding its barbaric 

 origin. 



* Did. iv. 101. f Reg. Veg. i. 528. 



TILIA- 



