Limacia.] vii. menispermace.e. 109 



(i) L. velutina Miers, in Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. Ser. 2. vii. 43; 

 Hook. fit. F.B.I, i. 100; King, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. I.e. 383. 



A moderate woody climber ; branches and leaves covered with 

 golden fur. Leaves variable in size, elliptic to oblanceolate 

 acuminate or cuspidate, base blunt or shortly narrowed, sub- 

 coriaceous; nerves 5 to 6 pairs; 2*5 in. to 5 in. long by i'6 to 

 2 in. wide; nerves and midrib and edges at least hairy; petioles 

 •5 to I "5 in. long. Cymes axillary, several together or solitary, 

 about "5 in. long, golden-tomentose. Flowers small crowded at 

 the top. Sepals ovate eventually spreading tomentose outside. 

 Petals clawed embracing the stamens. All yellow. Stamens 6 

 pilose; anther-cells brown. Carpels in female flower black-hairy. 

 Stigma pale grey. Drupe ovoid flattened, orange yellow, i in. 

 long, pulp orange brown. Seed dark brown. Hab. Common in 

 open country, secondary jungle and thickets. Singapore very 

 common. Malacca, Selangor, Perak, Penang. 



var. parvifolia Ridl. A form with all the leaves small 2 to 

 2 "5 in. long and "8 to i'3 in. wide. Cymes numerous 5 or 6 

 together. Penang, Government Hill at 2500 ft. altitude. Distrib. 

 Cochin-China, Siam, Tenasserim and Malay Islands. 



(2) L. oblonga Miers, Ainn. Mag. Nat. Hist. Ser. 2. vii. 43; 

 Hook. fil. F.B.I, i. 100; King, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. I.e. 382. 



Rather slender woody climber; stems yellowish-tomentose 

 eventually glabrous. Leaves coriaceous, very variable, the terminal 

 ones lanceolate acuminate, 3 in. long by i in. wide, the lower ones 

 broadly oblong to elliptic sub-acute, base rounded glabrous, 5 "5 

 to 8 in. long, 4'5 to 5 in. wide ; nerves 3 or 4 pairs prominent beneath 

 as are the secondaries and the very fine reticulations ; petioles 

 •75 to i"25 in. long. Panicles slender 4 to 5 in. long, extra-axillary 

 in lines of fascicles of 2 to 4, pubescent. Flowers small numerous, 

 greenish yellow. Outer sepals lanceolate, inner sub-orbicular. 

 Petals boat-shaped. Stamens glabrous. Drupe very excentric, 

 over -5 in. long, obovoid flattened. Hab. Thickets in open country. 

 Malacca, Bukit Bruang and Pringit (Griffith). Selangor, Kwala 

 Lumpur; Rawang (Kloss). Perak, Goping (Kunstler). Penang up 

 to 1200 ft. altitude. Government Hill, common. Native name : 

 Akar China. 



10. TILIACORA, Colebr. 



Climbing shrubs. Leaves penninerved ; petioles short. Panicles 

 usually short. Male flowers 6 to 12. Sepals, outer ones bract- 

 like, inner larger obovate elliptic. Petals 4 to 6 minute obcordate. 

 Stamens 9 to 3, free or more or less connate. Females, staminodes o. 

 Carpels 30 to 6. Drupe gibbous ovoid, compressed grooved on 

 both sides. Albumen ruminate or scanty or o. Species 15, mostly 

 African, 3 Indian to Penang. 



