20 T. ^fEKISPEKMACE^. 



3. TILIACORA, Colebr. 



A climbing shrub. LeaAes ovate. Flowers in elongate panicles. 

 Sepals G, in 2 series, the outer small, the inner much larger, scarcely 

 imbricate. "Petals G, minute, euneate. M.\le flowees : Stamens 6, 

 free ; anthers 2-celled, iutrorse. Female ilowees : Ovaries 3-12 ; 

 styles short, subulate. Drupes obovoid, stalked, laterally compressed; 

 style-scar sub-basal ; eudocarjj thin, obscurely ribbed, grooved on both 

 sides. Seed hooked ; albumen oily, ruminate ; embryo nearly as long 

 as the seed ; cotyledons tleshy, appressed. — Disteib. East Indies ; 

 species 1. 



1. Tiliacora racemosa, Colebr. in Ivans. Linn. Soc. v. 13 (1821) 

 p. 67. A woody climber ; branches cinereous, striate ; young shoots 

 glabrous. Leaves 3-6 by 1^-4 in., 3-5-nerved, ovate, acuminate, cor- 

 date, truncate, or rounded at the base, glabrous on both surfaces, shining 

 above, very prominently reticulately veined beneath, margins undulate ; 

 petioles -1— | in long. Flowers yellow, | in. across, in elongate, lax, 

 axillary, racemose panicles up to 12 in. long; branches 1 in. long, 

 puberulous, at length glabrSus, male 3-7-flowered at the apex, female 

 1-flowered ; bracts subulate, hairy. Sepals alike in both sexes ; the 3 

 outer ovate, acute, ciliolato, much shorter than the inner ; the inner 

 oblong, obtuse. Petals in both sexes obovate or suborbicular, slightly 

 emarginate, much shorter than the stamens. Drupes 1-10, reddish, 

 i in. long, ovate, compressed, shortly stalked. Fl. B. I. v. 1, p. 99 ; 

 Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 1, p. 42 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. p. 7 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. 

 Prod. v. 6, part 4, p. 56. Tiliacora acuminata, Miers, in Ann. & Mag. 

 Nat. Hist. ser. 2, v. 7, p. 39; Hook. f. & Thoms. Fl. Ind. p. 187. 

 Cocculus acwninatvs, DC. Prodr. v. 1, p. 99 ; Grab. Cat. p. 5. — Flowers: 

 Jan.-Feb. 



KoNKAK : Nimmo, fide Graham, 1. c, and fide Hook.f. and Thorns. 1. c. 



4. COCCULUS, DC. 



Climbing or sarmeutose shrubs. Flowers in axillary, usually short 

 panicles. Sepals G, in 2 series, the inner larger. Petals 6, shorter than 

 the sepals, usually auricled. Male flowees : Stamens embraced by 

 the petals ; anthers subglobose, cells bursting transversely. Female 

 FLOWERS: Staminodes G or 0. Ovaries 3; styles usually cylindric. 

 Drupes laterally compressed ; endocarp horseshoe-shaped, dorsally 

 keeled and tuberculate, sides excavate. Seeds horseshoe-shaped ; albu- 

 men scanty; cotyledons linear, flat, appressed. — Disxeie. All warm 

 climates. 



Leaves suborbicular, glabrous; panicles large 1. C. macrocarpus. 



Leaves deltoid or hastate, villous ; panicles short 2. C. villosus. 



Leave.** oblong or trapezoidal, at Icngtii glabrous ; male flowers 



fascicled, female solitary 3. C. Lotba. 



1. Cocculus macrocarpus, Wight ^- Am. Prodr. (1834) p. 12. 

 A shrul), climbing to a great height ; trunk sometimes reaching nearly 

 1 ft. in diam. with wrinkled bark ; young branches dark brown, striate. 

 Leaves variable in shape, usually broader than long, 2-4 by 2i-4i in., 

 5-nerved, reticulately veined, rotund or reniform (rarely broadly ovate, 

 acute), truncate or cordate at the base, mucronate, glabrous above, 



