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Hab. Silhet, ColebrooJce ; Pegu, Wall.! — (v. a.) 

 Distrib. Sumatra; Java; ins. Molucc. et Philippin. 



Frutex alte scandens, cortice lsevi, distanter verruculoso ; partes novelise glabra. 

 Folia ovali-oblonga, acuminata, basi leviter cordata, lobis distantibus interdum sub- 

 sagittatis, integerrima vel repanda, utrinque glabra, 2-6 poll, longa, 1-4 lata, petiolis 

 ■£ brevioribus. Racemi ad axillas foliorum delapsorum secus caules vetustiores, so- 

 litarii vel fascieulati, elongati, 4-8-pollicares. Flores 2-3 in axilla bractese ovate 

 carnosse, pedicellati, virides, campanulati, 2 lineas longi. Diitpce pallide aurantiacse 

 vel flavse, olivse magnitudine. 



Colebrooke's synonym is perhaps doubtful, as he says that the cotyledons of his 

 plant are not divaricate, and he figures them as partially overlapping. The speci- 

 mens in the Wallichian Herbarium are very imperfect, but the glabrous bark, with 

 distant rough tubercles, is very conspicuous. On the first sheet a piece of the stem 

 of T. tomentosa is fastened down along with the stems and foliage of the true plant. 

 We found at Chittagong and in Silhet specimens of a Menispermaceous plant with- 

 out leaves or flowers, the scandent stems of which agree with the description given 

 of this species. Their structure has been described above. As we have no materials 

 of our own to depend upon, we have embodied in the diagnosis and description the 

 main points of distinction pointed out by authors between this species and the last ; 

 but, as these are in part derived from the description of Roxburgh and De Candolle, 

 and partly from those of Blume and Hasskarl, all of which are not certainly specifi- 

 cally identical, our character is perhaps little to be relied upon. We are, however, 

 inclined to believe that Roxburgh's plant is the same as that of the Javanese bota- 

 nists, because he attributes to it the same medicinal (tonic) virtues as are usually 

 attributed to T. crispa, and because their descriptions agree so far as they go. T. 

 crispa is highly esteemed by the natives of the Malayan Archipelago as a febrifuge. 



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

 cordatis glabris, staminibus liberis, antheris ovali-oblongis. — Menisper- 

 mum Malabaricum /3, Lam. Diet. iv. 96. M. cordifolium, Willd.; Roxb. 

 Fl. Ind. iii. 811. Cocculus cordifolius, DC. St/st. i. 518, Prod. i. 97 ; 

 Colebr. in Linn. Tr. xiii. 62 ; Wall. Cat. 4955 ! ; W. et A. Trod. i. 12 ; 

 Wight, Ic. t. 485, 486. C. convolvnlaceus, DC. Syst. i. 518, Prod. i. 

 97. C. verrucosus, Wall. Cat. 4966 C! D ! E! (non A nee E). 



Hab. Per Indiam tropicam in dumetis vulgaris; in Zeylania, Thtoaitei 

 Carnatica! Malabaria ! Maisor! Dekkan, Jacquemont ! Concan, Gra- 

 ham; Orissa ! Bengalia ! Assam, Jenkins! Bahar, Hamilton ! — (Fl. per 

 totum annum.) (v. v.) 



Frutex alte scandens, cortice suberoso vermcnloso ; partes novelise glabrae. Folia 

 late cordata, acuta, vel acumine gracili terminata, 2-4 poll, longa et lata, petiolis 

 fere sequilongis. Racemi axillares, rarius terminates, vel ex axillis foliorum delapso- 

 rum solitarii, folia ssepe longe superantes, simplices vel basi subcompositi. Bractea 

 subulate, inferiores rarius subfoliacese. Flores flavi; masculi fascieulati; fceminei 

 plerumque solitarii, glabri. Petala cuneata, lamina triquetra vel subtriloba, demum 

 reflexa. Drupce ccrasi parvi magnitudine, rubrse, pnlpa glutioosa focte. 



"Wight and Arnott seem disposed to attach a good deal of importance to the shape of 

 the petals, and to doubt the identity of the plants of Roxburgh and Wallich with that 

 of the Peninsula, because Roxburgh's plate differs in that respect from the specimens 

 before them. We believe that this character will be found to vary much, as usual in 

 flip Order, and that the ratals embrace the filaments in the bud, and become reflexed 



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