Mr. Colebkooke on the Indian Species ofMmupmmti. 



TILIACORA. 



Dioicous. CaL twice 3-leaved. Petals 3. Ntet. (int. cor.) 

 6-leaved. Start. (>': alternate ones shorter. Drupes (berries) 

 many. Nut f 2-celled? 



T. racemosa. 



Menispermum polycarpon. Roxb. Mss. 



To complete a review of the Menisperma collected by Rox- 

 burgh, and more or less perfectly described by him, several yet 

 remain to be spoken of, which are sufficiently remarkable to 

 deserve particular notice ; besides If. glabra in of Koenig, iden- 

 tified with M. cordifolium of Willdenow (Cocculus cordifolius 

 Dec), and M. Columba, which is the same with 1/. paknatMM 

 Lam. (Cocculus palmatus Dec.) ; and exclusive of one named but 

 not described by him, M. megaspermum. 



The first to be here mentioned is M. hexagynum, to which 

 allusion has been before made. The male flower and mature 

 fruit have not been seen and described. But the section of the 

 germ in Roxburgh's figure of the female blossom indicates a 

 genuine member of the family group, to which Decandolle ap- 

 propriates the name of Cocculus ; and so do the nectarial scales 

 (or inner corol), and the other parts of the flower, consisting of 

 a three-leaved calyx with a pair of bractes closely appressed to 

 it ; three petals twice as large ; and six barren filaments. 



Another, to which likewise allusion was before made, is M. tri- 

 andrum. The male flower, without either female blossom or ripe 

 fruit, has been figured and described. It has nectarial scales 

 (or inner corol) ; and in other respects also affords no indication 

 of a fit subject for separation from the larger group in this 

 family, notwithstanding the paucity of its stamina. Its calyx is 

 three-leaved, minute. Its corol urceolate, three-petalled. 



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