V. MBNISPEEMACEiE. 19 



3 in. long. Eacemes often much longer than the leaves, axillary, 

 terminal or from the old wood. Flowers yellow^, the males fascicled, 

 the females usually solitary ; pedicels slender ; bracts lanceolate- 

 subulate, the low^er sometimes foliaceous. Male flowers : Sepals : 

 the 3 outer very small, ovate-oblong acute ; the 3 inner larger, mem- 

 branous, suborbicular, concave. Petals : each loosely embracing a 

 stamen, claw cuneate, lamina triquetrous or subtrilobed, reflexed at the 

 apex. rE:srALE flowers : Petals cuueate-oblong, with eutire (not re- 

 flexed) margins. Drupes 1-3, dorsally convex, ventrally nearly flat, 

 red, size of a large pea; style-scar subterminal. Fl. B. I. v. 1, p. 97 ; 

 Dalz. & Gibs. p. 5 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. p. G ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. 

 Nat. v. 11 (1897) p. 121 : Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 6, part 4, p. 63. 

 Cocculus cordifoUus, DC. Syst. v. 1, p. 518; Grab. Cat. p. 4. — Flowers : 

 Apr. Veen. Gul-vel. 



Very common in thickets throughout the Presidency ; frequently planted. Konkan : 

 Dalsell tf- Gibson, Graham. Deccan : Woodrow ! ; Poena, Woodroiv ! S. M. Country : 

 Belgaum, Eitckic ! ; Badaini, Cooke ! 



2. ANAMIRTA, Colebr. 



A climbing shrub. Flowers panicled. Sepals 6, with 2 appressed 

 bracts. Petals 0. Male flowers : Anthers sessile on a stout column, 

 2-celled, bursting transversely. Female flowers : Staminodes 9, 

 clavate, 1-seriate. Ovaries 3, on a short gynophore; stigma subcapitate, 

 reflexed. Drupes on a 3-fid gynophore, obliquely ovoid, dorsally gibbous ; 

 style-scar sub-basal ; endocarp woody. Seed globose, embracing the 

 subglobose, hollow, intruded endocarp ; albumen dense, of horny 

 granules ; embryo curved ; cotyledons narrow-oblong, thin, spreading. 



1. Anamirta paniculata, Colehr. (1819) in Trans. Linn. Soc. v. 13 

 (1821) p. G6. A shrub, climbing to a considerable height; bark ash- 

 colored, vertically furrowed ; young parts glabrous. Leaves subcoriaceous, 

 4-8 by 3-5 in., broadly ovate, cordate or truncate (rarely attenuated) at 

 the base, acute or acuminate (rarely obtuse), 5- (rarely 3-) nerved, 

 glabrous above, pale beneath, with a tuft of , hairs in the axils of the 

 nerves except the basal ones ; petioles terete, striate, glabrous, thickened 

 at base and apex. Flowers | in. in diam., in branched glabrous panicles, 

 10-14 in. long, on the old branches ; branches of the panicle 1-2 in. 

 long, many-flowered ; buds globular ; pedicels short, i-j in. long, 

 divaricate. Sepals subequal, deciduous, ovate-oblong, concave, quite 

 glabrous. Anthers, in the male flowers, forming a globose head on the 

 short stout column of adherent filaments. Ovaries 3, on a very short 

 smooth gynophore, surrounded at base by a ring of minute, fleshy, bitid 

 staminodes ; stigmas reflexed. Eipe carpels 1-3 (usually 2), -i- in. in 

 diam. on the thickened branches of the enlarged gynophore, smooth, 

 black. Miers, Contrib. v. 3, p. 51 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 1, p. 40. Anamirta 

 Cocculus, W. & A. Prodr. p. 446 ; Fl. B. I. v. 1, p. 98 ; Dalz. & Gibs, 

 p. 4 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. p. 7 ; A¥oodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 

 (1897) p. 121 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 1, p. 235. Cocculus suberosus, 

 DC. Syst. V. 1, p. 519 ; Grab. Cat. p. 4. Vern. Kdlcaplial ; Kakamari; 

 Vdtoli. 



Konkan: common, Dal~cll 4' Gibson; in fruit, January, Woodrow. Kanaka: 

 Talbot. 



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