Tinospora.] vii. MENisPERMACEiE. 103 



(i) T. crispa Miers, Contrih. Bot. iii. 34 ; Hook. fd. F.B.I, i. 96. 



Climber with fawn colour papery warted bark. Leaves ovate 

 to oblong-ovate acuminate, base truncate or very slightly cordate, 

 thin light green, 3 to 3*5 in. long, 3 to •!$ in. wide; petioles 3*5 in. 

 long. Raceme slender lax. Flowers small green. Males, sepals 3 

 outer smaller, 3 inner elliptic much larger. Petals very small, 

 involute oblong ovate. Stamens short 6. Females, pistils 3, 

 sub-cylindric. Fruit oblong 3 in. long, 3'ellow or red. Seed 

 smooth. Hah. Cultivated ground, Singapore. Malacca, Pulau 

 Jawa (Griffith) ; Penang, near Waterfall (Curtis) ; Perils, Tebing 

 Tinggi. Distrib. India. Introduced here and more or less culti- 

 vated ; very rarely flowering. 



(2) T. macrocarpa Diels, Pflanzeiireich, Menispermacece 141. 

 Stem as in T. crispa. Leaves ovate-oblong, base truncate or 



cordate, acuminate, 3-5 in. long, 375 in. wide. Flowers imknown. 

 Drupes oblong cylindric, i'5 in. long, 7 in. wide; endocarp bony 

 sub-ellipsoid, somewhat warty. Hah. Malacca (Maingay). 



Possibly T. uliginosa Miers, of the Malay Islands, as King suggests, of 

 which I have seen no plants. 



(3) T. Curtisii Ridl. Jourii. Bot. 1920, p. 148. 



Climber; bark pale, wart^^ Leaves elliptic ovate, base round 

 minutely cordate, sub-coriaceous ; nerves 3 pairs with reticulations 

 elevate beneath; 4 in. long, 3 in. wide; petioles i in. long. In- 

 florescence laxly panicled over 12 in. long ; branches 3 to 5 in. long, 

 minutely puberulous. Flowers '12 in. wide, solitary and a few 

 in short racemes. Pedicels very short. Bracts minute acuminate. 

 Male flowers, sepals 3, round and wide. Petals longer lanceolate 

 acuminate. Stamens 6, filaments short broad linear. Female 

 flowers and fruit unknown. Hab. Penang, Batu Feringhi, near 

 the beach (Curtis). 



2. PERIPETASMA, Ridl. 



Slender woody climber. Leaves thin sub-herbaceous, elliptic 

 oblong cuspidate, base round; nerves from base 3. Panicles 

 axillary of long slender racemes, many-flowered. Flowers small. 

 Sepals 6, connate in a campanulate tube, lobes long-acuminate, 

 outer series narrower and thicker than inner ones. Petals o. 

 Stamens 6, base of filament thickened and winged, upper part 

 slender incurved; anther-cells 2, discrete. Pistillode minute, 

 triquetrous. Species i. 



(i) P. polyanthum Rt'dl. Jouyn. Bot. 1920, p. 147. 



Glabrous. Leaves trinerved with 6 pairs from the midrib, 

 reticulations wide elevate beneath, 6 in. long, 2 in. wide; petioles 

 I in. long. Panicles 12 in. long with many slender racemes, 8 or 9 in. 

 long. Flowers scattered. Pedicels slender -i in. long. Bracts 



