Coccutus. MENISPERMACE X. 13 
racemosa, Colebr. in Lin. Soc. Trans. 13. p. 67.—Braunea menispermoides, 
Willd. sp. 4. p. 797 (as to the leaves and male flowers).—Rheed. Mal. 7. t. 3. 
—— Madras, rare ; abundant on the sea-coast near Negapatam in Tanjore. 
When the nut is cut transversely, it appears as if with two cells; but there 
is only one, as may be proved by a longitudinal section. 
T 45. (5) C. macrocarpus (W. & A.:) racemes of fruit compound, lax; 
pedicels opposite: ovaries 3: drupes obovoid, curved, almost sessile; nut 
compressed.— Wight ! cat. n. 41. Malabar. 
We have only seen the racemes of fruit; they are eight inches to a foot in 
length; the drupe is fully an inch long. 
§ 3. Seed terete, forming nearly a complete circular ring ; embryo inclosed in 
a fleshy albumen, and of about the same length. 
46. (6) C. villosus (DC.:) twining: leaves on old branches cordate-orbi- 
cular or hastate-3-lobed, obtuse or retuse, mucronulate ; on young shoots 
oblong, cordate or acute at the base, obtuse with a muero or acute, more or 
less downy: racemes axillary, not half the length of the leaves, of male 
flowers branched and corymbose, of female simple and 1-3-flowered: petals 
cuneate-oblong, emarginate, about equal to the filiform filaments: stamens 6 ; 
anther-cells approximated : ovaries 3: nuts of the drupe reniform, compressed. 
— DC. prod. 1. p. 98; Wall.! L.n.4957 (including g); Wight ! cat. n. 42, 43. 
—C. sepium, Colebr.—C. Aristolochie, DC.? prod. 1. p. 97.—Menispermum 
villosum, Lam. (not Rozb.)—M. hirsutum, Linn. ; Roxb. in Lin. Soc. Trans. 
13. p. 58.—M. myosotoides, Linn.— Pluk. t. 384. f. 3, 5-7 ; and t. 13. f. 2? 
Some specimens before us have the leaves quite glabrous, except on the 
nerves; in others, from the upper part of a shoot, they are densely villous 
on both sides. The figures in Plukenet do not represent separate varieties, 
but only different sexes, or different parts of the same individual. Roxburgh 
and Colebrooke say that the female peduncles are solitary ; they are usually 
80, but we have seen occasionally as many as three, although only one ap- 
pears to ripen its fruit. C. cocculus, Ham.! in Wall. L. n. 4957. g, is quite the 
same as to the female from Muniyari; the male, which comes from Phurin- 
» 18 Cissampelos convolvulacea. 
47. (7) C. glaber (Wight:) glabrous all over: stem twining; branches 
long, twiggy, pendulous; leaves ovate or oblong, mucronate, slightly 
cuneate at the base: cluster of male flowers small, axillary, sessile, glo- 
€, one-half shorter than the petiole, often by the falling of the upper 
faves apparently arranged in an interrupted spike; peduncles of females 
usually solitary, 1-flowered, equal to the petiole: petals roundish-ovate, con- 
cave, close to the back of, and about the length of, the filaments: anther-cells 
approximate : ovaries 3: nuts reniform, compressed.— Wall. ! L. n. 4975. 
(there called C. levis, under which name, by mistake, the specimens were 
distet Dr Wallich); Wight! cat. n. 47.——Alpine valleys in the Madura — 
ct. 
Allied to C. ovalifolius, DC. We would have adopted the name of levis, 
iet originating in a mistake, but glaber is obviously that which is 
cable, 
$ 4. Seed terete, thick, forming nearly a complete ring ; albumen none ! 5 embryo 
large ; radicle minute ; cotyledons fleshy, semicylindrical, tapering towards 
the radicle. 
48. (8) C. Plukenetii (DC. :) stem twinin , glabrous ; young branches pu- 
cent: leaves ovate, ate omen SN cordate at the base, 
rarely retuse at the apex, glabrous; when young the nerves on the under 
side, and long petioles hairy: racemes spike-like, loi than the leaves ; 
Pedicels short, with a subulate bractea at their base, of males 2-3 together, 
