Tinospora.] flora indica. I c 



shape of the embryo and the nature of the albumen of Chasmantkera were not de- 

 terminable in the seed examined. 



In a Tinospora which we refer to T. crispa, Miers, a portion of stem, probably six 

 to eight years old, is loose, and soft and spongy, about half an inch in diameter, and 

 has the following structure: — Pith one-third the diameter of the stem, of large 

 hexagoual utricles, full of starch. Medullary rays and bark the same. Wood-wedges 

 small, about twenty, half-way between centre and circumference, often lobed, and 

 with traces of annual increase, divided by broad medullary rays, broadly lanceolate 

 on a transverse section, formed of dotted or perforated pleurenchvina, and large 

 dotted ducts, with oblique gashes on their walls. Liber -bundles arcuate, rather 

 distant from the wood, often confluent into a narrow zone. Bark of delicate utri- 

 cular tissue, Ml of starch ; outer layer of many rows of parallel radially compressed 

 cells. Epidermis covered with many longitudinal riinre, each with a central furrow 

 and prominent cellular lips. 



1. T. tomentosa (Miers in Taylor's Annals, ser. 2. vii. 38); foliis 

 subtrilobis subtus toraentosis. — Cocculus tornentosus, Colebr. in Linn. 

 Tr. xiii. 59; Wall. Cat. 4956 ! Menispermum tomentosura, Roxb. Fl 

 Ind. iii. 813. 



Hab. In dumetis Bengali®, Roxb.! Ava, Wall!— -(Fl. Febr. Mart.) 



(v. 8.) 



Fmtex alte scandens, cortice cinereo, pustulis scabris tecto; partes novelise to- 

 mentosa?. Folia rotundato-cordata, antice repauda, vel plus minus triloba, utriuquc 

 (subtus pre;sertim) tomentosa, 3-6 poll, longa et fere sequilata. Fetioli folia fere 

 ecquantes, tomentosi. Racemi solitarii vel fasciculati, plerumque simplices, floribus 

 in axillis bractearum minutarum deciduarum fasciculatis. Filamenta clavata. An- 

 them biloba\ Brupce 1-3, pisi majoris magnitudine, subglobosse, lseves, aurantiacac. 



Our description is entirely taken' from Roxburgh, as we have seen no specimens 

 except those in the Wallichian Herbarium, which are very imperfect. The stem is 

 covered with very minute granular tubercles. 



2. T. Malabarica (Miers in Taylor's Annals, ser. 2. vii. 38); fo- 

 liis cordato-ovatis subtus dense vel tenuiter pubescentibus. — Menisper- 

 mum Malabaricura, Lam. Willd. Cocculus Malabaricus, DC. Syst. i. 

 518, Prod. i. 97 ; Wall. Cat. 4969 \—Rheede Mai. vii. t. 19. 



JIab. In Malabaria, Rheede ; Concan, Nimmo ; in Bengalia versus 

 basin Himalaya Sikkimensis, Hamilton! in moutibus Kliasia a basi ad 

 alt. 4000 ped. ! et in prov. Chittagong I— (v. v.) 



Frutex scandens, cortice cinereo ; partes novella? pilis albicantibus obsitre. Petwh 

 teretes, basi incrassati, pilosi. Folia cordiformia, acuminata, subtus lanuginosa, su- 

 perne pilis subaspera septemnervia, 3-6 poll, longa et fere sequilata. Bacemt foln 

 longitudiue. Flores virides. Drupte maturac corallini rnbons. 



There is a specimen in the Hookerian Herbarium from Ceylon, without leaves, 

 which is probably referable to this species; but, as we cannot identify it with cer- 

 tainty, wc do not describe it. Our Khasia and Chittagong specimens arc in leaf 

 only, and are therefore also doubtful. Careful observations are required to establish 

 the distinctive characters of all the species of this genus. 



3. T. crispa (Miers in Taylor's Annals, ser. 2. vii. 38) ; foliis cor- 

 dato-ovatis vel oblongis acuminatis glabris, staminibus basi cum petalis 

 eohscrentibus, antheris tetragonis — Menispermum crispuni, Linn. 8p. 

 H68. M. verrucosum, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 808 ; Fleming in Asiat. Res. xi. 

 171. Cocculus crispus, DC. St/st. i. 521, Prod. i. 91 ; U et A. Prod. i. 



