



Limacia.'] floha indica. 187 



hard, centre softer and of hexagonal cells, becoming cubical outwards, and then ver- 

 tically elongated with thick perforated walls. Wood-bundles about forty, placed 

 towards the circumference, close-set, oval, separated by narrow, dark-red medullary 

 rays, of a little dotted pleurenchyma and some large ducts. Liber-bundles crescent- 

 shaped, almost confluent, annually increasing. Bark a very narrow, dense, cellular 

 zone. 



1. T. acuminata (Miers in Taylor's Annals, ser. 2. vii. 39); fo- 

 liis ovatis acuminatis glabris. — T. raeemosa, Colebr. in Linn. Tr. xiii. 

 53, 67. Menispermum acuminatum et M. radiatum, Lam. Did. iv. 

 101. M. polycarpum, Roxb. Fl. Lid. iii. 816. Cocculus acuminatum 

 DC. Si/st. i. 527, Prod. i. 99 ; Deless. Ic. Set. i. t. 95 ; W. et A. Prod. 

 i. 12; Graham, Cat. Bombay. C. radiatus, DC. Syst. i. 527, Prod. I 

 99. C. polycarpus, Wall. Cat. 4958 ! (excl. if, L.) C. Bantameusis, 

 Bl, Bijdr. i$.—Rheede Mai. vii. t. 3. 



Hab. Per totam Indiana tropicam et calidam, a Zeylama! et Suiga- 

 pur! ad Concan! et Orissa ! et in planetie Gangetica! a Bengaha! ad 



Oude! — (v. v.) 



Distkib. Java, Blume. 



Frutex alte scandens, cortice cinereo striatulo glabro. Folia ovata acuminata, 

 basi interdum acuta sed sarins truncata, rotundata vel leviter cordata, 3-6 poll, tonga, 

 1A-34 lata, petiolo 1-1 poll, lon*o, tenuia, margine uudulata et subrepanda utriiiquc 

 glabra. Pam&dm axillares, folia vix icquaiites vel longe superantes, interdum few 

 petales, inranas vel clemum -bibrescentes j rami pollicares, bum subsmiplices 1-flon. 

 rowcali apice 3-7-nori. ^Bractew oblongie vel subulate. Flora flavi. Drupe 



rubieundse. i -pollicares. . ... 



Mr. Miers has noted that Wall. Cat. 4958 K., from Singapur, » perhaps a species 



of Sabia. 



accurat 



7. LIMACIA, Lour. 



Limacia et Ilypserpa, Miers. 



Sepala 6, biserialia, exteriora minora. Petala 6 sepalis fnterionbus 

 nnilto minora, auriculata, stamina amplectentia. Mas. Muunna «> ■' 5 

 lilamcnta cylindrioa vel clavata. Anther* bilocularcs ; loculi Iaterales 

 vel robextrorwe, adnata, longitBuinaliter dehiscentes. F<em. Stamina 



sterilia 6, clavata. Ocaria 3, gyuophoro brevissimo msukntia. iUjfU 

 breves, coinpressi. Drupa obovatte vel reniformes. Put, >*n vi\ luuer- 

 culatum, lateribus convexum, intus piwfcef cavitatem seimnilerain locn- 

 los 2 laterales vacuos eontinens. Semen elongatum, cavi tati contorn.e. 

 Cotyledons semicylindriete, radiculam cylindricam latitudine vix supe- 



rantea.~-Iratice8 eeandentee, petiolis simjrticibus, nonbus paniculate. 



Lhnacia, which is by Mr. Miers referred to the tribe Vaehj 9 one«, we fuuljo be 

 albuminous, and therefore more properly to belong ^f™ ^ J\° ""jf" 

 therefore remains to distin K uish Hypserj.a but the nn bneate mne ^epd*. he se- 

 pals of Limacia velutina and oblo,,a are, as Asa Gray has pom edwrt m *V«otoj 

 of Captain Wflkes» Expedition, decidedly valvate; but as h s i^Mgoj 

 their thicker texture, we do not attach generic .mporta.ue to it We J • dtn tved 

 our character of the fruit from two species only. L. velxtnuc ^*^*Vto- 

 *v/«, Miers). In both the nut presents U lateral ocai ations like those ot < oea^s 

 K,,/:. ; , ., \ ! ..... a „ c.tioi, however, show.- two large cavities 



