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glaucous beneath, margins somewhat undulate ; petioles 2-5 in. long, 

 slender, j^ellowish, more or less inserted M-ithin the margin of the blade. 

 Inflorescence in large, much-branched, glabrous, pendulous panicles 

 li-2 ft. long ; peduncles usually many, in divergent fascicles from the 

 old wood ; flowers yellow, faintly fragrant, in fascicles or umbels along 

 the rhachis ; pedicels slender. Sepals thinly membranous, marked (as 

 are the petals and the ovaries) with purple lines and spots ; the inner 

 sepals obovate-oblong, rather larger than the outer. Petals broadly 

 cuueate, 3-lobed ; the middle lobe emarginate, rarely acute ; the lateral 

 lobes embracing the stamens. Anthers subglobose. Ovaries oblong, 

 incurved. Ripe carpels 1-2, nearly sessile, g-1 in. long, obovate-oblong, 

 compressed, tapering to a short neck, glaucous; style-scar conspicuous, 

 basal ; endocarp transversely ridged. Seed doubled into a hook. Fl. B. 

 I. V. 1, p. 101 ; G-rah. Cat. p. 5 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 5 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 

 1, p. 43 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. p. 7 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 

 (1897) p. 121.— Flowers: Feb.-Mar. Vern. RdmriJc ; Watm-vel 



In the Konkan and N. Kanara ; abuiidaut at Matheran. Konkan : DahcU tf' Gibson, 

 Law\, Gibson]; Matheran, Cooke '., JVoodrowl Kasara : N. Kanara, on banks of rivers 

 and in moist forests, locally abundant, Talbot. S. M. Country : Belgauin, Ritchie ! — 

 DiSTRiB. China. 



2. Cocculus villosus, DC. Si/st. v. 1 (1818) p. 525. A straggling, 

 scaudent shrub ; young parts densely and softly villous ; branches 

 striate. Leaves 11—21 by l- IJ in., 3-5-nerved, ovate-oblong, sub- 

 deltoid or subhustate, obtuse, subacute or retuse, apiculate, subcordate 

 or truncate at the base, softly villous on both surfaces, at length nearly 

 glabrous ; petioles g in. long, densely villous. ]Male flowers in small 

 axillary cymose panicles ; pedicels slender ; bracts minute, subulate, 

 hairy. Sepals oblong-ovate, hairy outside, the 3 inner the larger. Petals 

 thinly membranous, obovate, emarginate, embracing the stamens, smaller 

 than the petals of the female flowers. Female floavers in axillary 

 clusters, 2-3 together, rarely racemose. Petals thick and fleshy, divided 

 at the apex into two triangular lobes with swollen bases, claw hairy. 

 Ovaries 3, smooth ; stigmas terete, thick, reflexed. Drupe size of a 

 small pea, keeled, transversely rugose. Fl. B. I. v. ] , p. 101 ; Dalz. & 

 G-ibs. p. 5 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. p. 7 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. 

 V. 11 (1897) p. 121 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 2, p. 397.— Flowers: 

 Dec. Vern. Vdsan-vel ; Pdravel. 



Common in hedges throughout the Presidency. Konkan: Lav:\ Deccan : Poona, 

 Woodrow ! Gujarat : Porbaudar, Cooke I 



3. Cocculus Loeba, DC. S>/st. (1818) p. 529. A scandent shrub ; 

 branches cinereous, striate, glabrous; branchlets long, slender, puberu- 

 lous, at length glabrate. Leaves very variable, |-1| by §-| in., 

 3-5-nerved, oblong, or trapezoidal with rounded angles, subhastate, or 

 sometimes linear-oblong, usually obtuse, mucronate, glabrous (except 

 when young), base cuneate or rounded ; petioles g-^ in. long, hairy. 

 Flowers axillary, small, inserted in a hairy tubercle, the males clustered 

 in dense axillary fascicles, the females solitary (rarely twin). Petals of 

 the male flowers deeply and acutely emarginate, with 2 lateral lobes 

 embracing the stamens. Ovaries 3. Drupe obovoid, keeled, compressed ; 

 stvle-scar basal. Fl. B. I. v. 1, p. 102 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. p. 7 ; Woodi-. 

 in Journ. Bomb. Nat, v. 11 (1897) p. 121 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. 



