382 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



tose. Hook, fil. & Thorns Fl. Ind. 179 ; Hook ; fil. Fl. B. Ind. i. 99 ; Miq. 

 Fl. Ind. Bat. i. Pt. 1, 77 ; Cocculus Blumeanus, Wall. Cat. 5971, partly. 



Climbing like the last on high, trees. I have not seen specimens of 

 tlie ripe drupe. 



LiMACiA, Loureiro. 



Climbing shrubs or small trees ; flowers in racemes or panicles. 

 Sepals 9, tomentose, in three series ; the two outer smaller, ovate ; the 

 inner large, rotund, concave, valvate. Petals '6 or 6, small, (as large as 

 the outer 3 sepals), obovate, clawed, glabrous, embracing the stamens 

 tStamens 3 or 6, free, sub-eqnal ; filaments short, erect, thickened up- 

 wards ; anthers connivent, cordate, 2-lobed. Fern, flower ; sepals and petals 

 as in male ; staminodes 6, clavate. Ovaries 3, hiisute. Style short. 

 Drapes 3, usually 1 by abortion, obovoid or reniform, fleshy ; style-scar 

 sub-basal ; endocarp 3-celled, the 2 lateral cells empty. tSeed elongate, 

 embracing the intruded endocarp ; embryo slender, the cotyledons 

 linear, plano-convex. Distrib. Tropical Asia. 



1. L. TRiANDKA, Miers Contrib. iii, 112. Branches closely striate, 

 puberulous when young, glabrous when adult. Leaves membranous, 

 ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 3-nerved above the rounded base, length 

 of blade 3 to 5 in., breadth 1'5 to 2 in., petiole about 'o in. Racemes 

 supra-axillary, shorter than the leaves, usually solitary, puberulous ; 

 bracts and flowers minute. Stamens 3, free, the filaments cuneate ; 

 anthers large, the cells divergent. H<>ok. fil. Fl. H. Ind. i, 100 ; Miq. 

 Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 1, 80 ; Kurz For. Flor. Buriu. i, 65 ; H. f. S^. T. Fl. 

 Ind. 188. L. Amherstiana and Wallichiana, Miers I.e. 112, 113. Menbp. 

 triandrum, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 816. Cocculus triandrus, Colebrooke in 

 Trans. Linn. Soc. xii. 64 ; Wall. Cat. 4962, 4959 C. 4958 L. 



Penang. Distrib. Burmah. 



2. L. OBLONGA, Miers Contrib. iii. 109. Scandent or shrubby ; 

 branches minutely striate, rusty-pnberulous when young. Leaves 

 membranous, glabrous, oblong-lanceolate or broadly elliptic, acute or 

 mucronate ; the base rounded, 3-nerved ; reticulations few, bold, pubescenfc 

 like the nerves and petiole ; length of blade 4 to 7 in., breadth 2*25 to3"5 

 in., petiole "75 to I 25 in. Male panicles slender, extra-axillary, 

 usually in pairs, much longer than the leaves, branched, rusty-pubescent. 

 Stamens 6, filaments thickened upwards but not cuneate. Female in- 

 florescence much shorter. Drupe transversely reniform, compi-essed, 

 glabrous, pulpy, rugose when dry, 75 in. long, slylar scar on a sub-basal 

 projecting horn. Hook, fil & Th. Fl. Ind. 189; Hook. fil. BM. B. Ind. i.. 

 100 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. Pt. i, 80. Cocculus oblongus, Wall. Cat. 



Common in all the Settlements. 



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