Jnamirta,] flora inpica. 185 



in tlic expaiuleil flower. T. cordifolia seems a very variable plant, and some forms 

 of it approach very Bear to T. Bakis, Miers (Cacculus Bakit, PL Scnegamb. t. 4), 

 which lias, however, a different habit, and often terminal flowers. According to 

 Anisic and Wight, this species is equally efficacious with T. aixpa as a tonic, and is 

 Known by the same name, Guluncha. 



5. ANAMIRTA, Colebrooke. 



Sepala 6, ovali-oblonga, obtusa, carnosula, bracteis 2 adpressis sti- 

 pata. Petala 0. Mas. Filamenta in columnam crassam eentralezn 

 coalita ; antherce sessiles, biloculares, transverse dehiscentes. F(EM. Sla- 

 mina sterilia 9, clavata, uniserialia. Ovaria 3, gynophoro brevi carnoso 

 hemispluerico insidentia. Stigma depressuni, reflexum, fere capitatum. 

 Dnipa gynopboro apice trifido stipaUe, oblique ovales, carnosze, dorso 

 gibbosae, antiee styli cicatrice a hilo non longe distante notatae. Puta- 

 men lignosum, processum alte bilobum laeve intus cavura in serainis 

 cavitatem intrusum continens. Semen globosum, intus cavum, fuiri- 

 culo inter lobos processus interni inserto. Testa tenuis, inembranacea. 

 Albumen fere corneura, oleosura, massulis crebris albidis farinaceis plus 

 minus rotundatis inter se discretis quasi ruminatum. Embryo cur*~ A 

 radicula superior, styli cicatricem spectans ; cotyledc < 



longee, tenuissimae, divaricatae, in loculis diversis alb 

 Krutices scandentes ; j>etioli cylindrici basi crassiores ar 

 maxima e ramis vetustioribus pendula, multiflorce. 



The wood of Anamirta appears to agree in all essential particulars with that of 

 Coschiium, but the liber does not present any traces of annual growth by obscure 

 concentric rings. 



1. A* Cocculus (W. et A. Prod. i. 446) ; foliis cordatis glabr 

 A. paniculata, Colebr. in Linn. Tr. xiii. 52, 66. Menispernuun Coccu- 

 lus, Linn. Sp. 1468 ; Gcert. Fr. t. 10. f. 7 ; Wall. As. Res. xiii. ; Roxb. 

 R Lid. iii. 807. M. heteroclitum, Roxb. Ft. hid. iii. 817. .Cocculus 

 lacunosus, DC. Syst. i. 519, Prod. i. 97. Cocculus suberosus, DC. Syst. 

 i. 519, Prod. i. 97 ; W. et A. Prod, i. 11 ; Wall. Cat. 4954 ! ; Colebr. 

 in Linn. Tr. xiii. 63. C, populifolius, DC. Syst. I 519, Prod. i. 97; 

 Decaime, Tim. 95. 



Hab. InZeylania, Gardner! TJiwaites! Malabar, Roxb., Wight! Con- 

 can, Lam ! Orissa, Roxburgh ; Khasia ! Assam, Jenkins ! — (v. v.) 



Distrib. Celebes, ins. Moluccan., Timor. 



Tfrutcx alte seandens, cortice cinereo rimoso tmberoso. Hamuli cra^i, cylindrici, 

 glabriusculi, striati. Folia exacte cordiformia, vel ovalia basi cordata seu truncata, 

 acuta vel acnmmntn mrina nlit uftinaniln. sunra crlabra. subtus pallida, et ad a 





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Panic hub e rami 9 



nervorum faseiculis pilorum munita, basi trincrvia cietcrum peuninervia, 4-8 poll, 

 et sequilata vel paullo angustiora. Petioli elongati, striatuli, 2-6 poll, longi. 



crassioribus pendute, pedales vel sesquipedales, ramosa?; ramuli 

 ...-, _;iflori. Floret glabri, majusculi, diam. fere i-pollieares. Sepals 

 deciJua. Gynophora 4-pollicaris, iignosa. Drupa glabra, f -pollicares, nigricantes, 

 •apore (ex Roxburgh) pessimo. 



Mr, Miers mentions four species, but only names the one described above and C. 

 poptdifolius, which we believe to be a synonym. We see nothing in the specimens 

 tonhieh we have access, nor in the descriptions of authors, which implies there 



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