324 MENISPERMACE®. 
Seed, one, pendulous, compressed, raphe 4 complete, 
linear simple. Tegument single lax spongy cellular, the 
young albumen copious. 
Radicle broad flattened furrowed, superior, longit. (quoad 
fruit) shorter than tegument, which towards apex is entirely 
spongy cellular, adhering here to the albumen. 
Cotyledons very small, suborbicular, on the same plane 
with the raphe, which appears simple 2 complete. 
Has. It was brought in from B. Brouang, nom. Malayan 
vere Akur Pisang Pisang, the seedg (or fruit) are eaten by 
natives. 
Oss. It is easily distinguished from the Ayer Punnus 
species, by the shape of the leaves, and the immense fruit and 
differs from Wallich's P. gigantea which has the outer 
perianth united at least in the male. 
That may be called Callicarpa, this Macrocarpa. : 
Its affinities are obviously near those of Menispermez, it 
is perhaps analogous to some Urticee, out of flower no one 
would know it from the former family. (N. B. Examine the 
Assam climber which I take to be Natsiatum.) 
It is abundantly distinct however in the capitulate flowers, 
in the binary double perianth, and concrete compound 
pistilla, each with 2 ovula as well as in the structure of the 
wood, and especially that of the pith. ; 
In the edible seed? it assimilates to Artocarpus, and in 
the inner perianth to some Utices, particularly if the st 
mina be opposite the segments. : 
In the branches on which leaves are frequent, and the peti- 
oles are not inserted into foveoli, which I take to be annual, 
the pith is large, consisting of firm closely packed roundish 
cells, containing a few adherent granules, its cells become 
smaller outwardly. Transverse section of the pith, consists 
of truncated cylinders short, applied end to end. | 
It is surrounded by true ligneous tissue, with large túbu- 
lar openings here and there, and distinctly striate, its outline 
is irregularly angular, 
