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7. CosciNiuM, Colebrooke. 



Climbing slu'ubs. FZot^er* in dense globose heads. <SepaZs 6, with a 

 bract, orbicular. Petals 3, large, spreading, elliptic. Male flower ; sta- 

 mens 6, filaments cylindric, JJ inner connate to the middle ; anthers 

 adnate, outer 1- the inner 2-celled, bursting vertically. Fem. flower; 

 staminodes 6. Oraries 3-6, subglobose ; styles subulate, reflexed. Drupes 

 globose ; endocarp bony. Seed globose, embracing a globose intmsioa 

 of the endocarp ; albumen fleshy, ruminate in the ventral face ; 

 embryo straight; cotyledons orbicular, spreading, thin, sinuate, laciuiate, 

 or fenestrate. — Distrib. Species 2 ; tropical Asiatic. 



1. C. FENESTRATfTM, Colebrooke in Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii, 65. Young- 

 ehoots faintly striate, shortly tomeiitose, often ferruginous. Leaves co- 

 riaceous, very slightly peltate, rotund-ovate, acute or shortly acuminate, 

 the base truncate and sometimes sub-sinuate, shining above, yellow-to- 

 mentose beneath except the 7 stout glabrous nerves ; reticulations pro 

 minent ; length of blade 5 to 7 in., breadth 4 to 6 in. ; petiole 2 to 8 in., 

 swollen and bent at base. Flowers in small pedunculate heads, in extra- 

 axillary racemes shorter than the leaves. Petals orbicular and, like the 

 sepals, persistent. Rife drupes on stout pedicels with capitate apices, 

 globose, tomentose, "75 in. in diara. ; cotyledons laciuiate. Miers in Hook. 

 Bot. Mag. t. 6458 ; Contrib. iii. 22, t. 88 ; H. f. & T. Fl. Ind. 178; 

 Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. i. 99. C. Maingayi, Pierre Fl. Coch. Ciiine. 

 C. Wallichiimiim and Wightianum, Miers in Tayl. Ann. Ser. 2, vii. 37 ; 

 Qonirxh. in. 2'd. Menisp. fenestratum, Grddrin.; \)Q. Prod. i. 103; Roxb. 

 Fl. Ind. iii. 809. Cocculus Blumeanns, Wall. Cat. 497J, partly. Pereira 

 medica, Lindl. Fl. Med. 307. 



Straits Settlements, at low elevations, not so common as the next. 

 Distrib. Ceylon, and perhaps some of the Malayan Islands. 



The Ceylon specimens have larger leaves and a more condensed 

 inflorescence than the Malayan ; but the flowers are alike, Pierre's 

 species C. Maingayi is founded on Maingay's Malacca specimens (Kew. 

 Distrib. 117 ) but I cannot see that they differ specifically from his No. 

 118, or from Wallich's. 



2. C. Blumkanum, Miers Contrib. iii, 23. Young shoots sub-striate, 

 tawny-tomentose. Leaves coriaceous, peltate, oblong, elliptic, rarely 

 ovate-rotund, obtuse or acute, the base rounded or truncate, sometimes 

 sub-sinuate, .shining above, white-tomentose beneath, the 7 nerves bold 

 and prominent on lower surface as are the reticulations, length of blade 

 8 to 12 in., breadth 4 to 7 in. ; petiole 4 to 6 in, swollen at base and 

 apex. Male inflorescence 5 in. long, racemose, densely ferruginous- 

 tomentose ; the flower heads '35 in. in diam. Female inflorescence from 

 the stem, 8 in. long, its branches horizontal ; dnipes globular, toraen- 



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