44 Menispermacecc . \Pachygone. 



horizontal ; ripe carp. 1-2, nearly sessile, | in., obliquely ovoid, 

 compressed, tapering to short neck, glabrous, glaucous, style- 

 scar conspicuous, basal, endocarp strongly transversely ridged, 

 seed doubled into a hook. 



Moist low country to 2000 ft.; rather common. Allagalla ; Pera- 

 deniya ; Uva. Fl. June ; pale yellow. Fruit pale glaucous orange. 

 Also in Southern India and South China. 



2. C. villosus, DC. Syst. Veg. i. 525 (181 8). 



Fl. B. Ind. i. loi (not given for Ceylon). Miers, 1. c. t. 126 {Holopeira). 



A small, much-branched, straggling climber, branches long, 

 slender, twining, striate, hairy-pubescent; 1. i-i|- in., deltoid- 

 ovate, very obtuse, apiculate or mucronate, tapering or trun- 

 cate at base, almost entirely glabrous above (save when 

 young), slightly hairy on veins beneath, ciliate at margin, 

 3-5-veined at base, petiole \ in., hairy ; male fl. in small 

 cymose panicles, on very slender axillary peduncles shorter 

 than the leaves, bracts subulate, hairy ; fern. fl. 2 or 3 together 

 in axillary clusters ; sep. villous outside ; pet. bifid, lobed at 

 sides ; male fl. : — stam. with filaments hairy at base ; fem. fl. : — 

 carp, smooth ; ripe carp, small, \ in., endocarp bony, horse- 

 shoe-shaped or rather annular, with the centre perforated, 

 sharply keeled along the back, the sides with strong transverse 

 ridges. 



Dry country ; rare. Trincomalie (Glenie) ; between Jafifna and 

 Kankesanturai. Fl. Feb.-March. 



Peninsular India, Burma, Trop. Africa. 



The specimens collected at Jaffna were in very young bud and would 

 have been scarcely determinable but that they clearly corresponded with 

 better ones in fruit collected at Trincomalie many years ago by Mr. 

 Glenie (and labelled ' Pachyg07ie ovaia' by Thwaites). Our form is very 

 much less hairy than those from India. 



The perforated annular endocarp is remarkable, and the basis of 

 Miers' genus Holopeira. 



7. PACKVCONE, Miers. 



Climbers ; fl. racemcd ; sep. 6, in 2 rows, inner much 

 longer ; pet. 6 ; male fl. : — stam. 6, free, anth. bursting hori- 

 zontally, rudimentary carp, 3; fem. fl. : — carp. 3, styles un- 

 divided, staminodes 6 ; endocarp bony, reniform, finely 

 wrinkled ; seed horseshoe-shaped, embryo large, cotyledons 

 thick, semicylindric, no endosperm. — A single species. 



Very near to Cocculus, but distinguished by the structure of the seed. 



