3. Cocculus. J 4. MENISPERMACE&. [Bebbebis. 



L. sometimes with large coarse teeth or triangular obtuse or acute 

 lobes, old hairy beneath. Peti. &■%. Petals biad. with 2 inflexed lateral 

 auricles embracing the base of the stamens in the M„ minute staminodes 

 in the F. Carpels 3 glabrous. 



Tinospora eordifolia, Miers. Gurach, H.; Gulencha, Beng., is a 

 climbing Bhrub with succulent corky stems, entire cordate leaves and 

 yellow fls. in racemes longer than the leaves. It sends down numerous 

 fleshy rootlets from the branches. Prain says " in hedges and thickets 

 everywhere " but I have no record from C. N. nor can I find any either at 

 Calcutta or Kew. 



5. Tiliacora, Uolebr. 



1. T. racemOSa, Colebr. Tiliakoru, Beng. 



A large woody climber with striated bark and broadly 

 ovate to ovate-lanceolate glabrous leaves 3|-6" long by l|-3§". 

 Fls. yellow in axillary racemes or panicles, females sub- 

 solitary on tbe branches, males usually 3-7 together. Carpels 

 about 10. Drupes reddish obovate laterally sub-compressed |'' 

 long with a hard narrowly horse-shoe shaped putamen enclos- 

 ing a bony plate. 



Rajmehal Hills (Barhait) but not common. Fl. May June. Fr. r. s. 



L. shining, base rounded or sub -cordate, sec. n. raised beneath slender 

 from near the base and decnrrent on the mid-rib, finely reticulate between. 

 Petiole articulate at the base £-1" long- Fern, racemes l-2£ long pubescent, 

 males longer. Fls. 3-4-bracteolate with 3 imbricate and 3 valvate sepals 

 and 6 small fleshy quadrate or cuneate petals. Albumen ruminate. 



Fam. 5. BERB£IUDACE£. 



1. Berberis, L. 



Shrubs with pinnate, or mostly dimorphic leaves, those 

 on main branches converted into 3-5-partite spines bearing 

 in their axils abbreviated branchlets with simple fascicled 

 coriaceous leayes. Fis. yellow, solitary fascicled or racemed, 

 with 2-3 appressed bracts. Sep. 3 + 3. Pet 3 + 3; 8t t 6 opp. 

 the petals, anths. opening by 2 valves. Carpel 1 with a 



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