Coca/Jus.] FLORA 1NDICA. 191 



Our specimens of the stem of Cocci- In* Le.rha are all small ; one, evidently seve- 

 ral years old, and one-fourth of an inch in diameter, is compact, woody, and cylin- 

 drical, with only one zone of wood-wedges. These are separated by very narrow 

 medullary rays, and extend nearly from the pith to the circumference ; Ihey are very 

 much more numerous and closely placed than in C. hmrifoiius, but their compo- 

 nent tissues entirely correspond with those of that plant. Older stems may present 

 other concentric zones of wood. 



The stem of C. villosus attains a considerable diameter, but our specimens are 

 only small branches of the same size and apparent age as those of C. Leaba. The 

 tissues of these only differ from those cf the above-named plant and of C. laurifolius 

 in the outer portion of the pith, which is contiguous to the wedges of wood, becoming 

 smaller and denser, and the cells elongating vertically into woody tubes, with blunt 

 superimposed ends. This is a very common form of pith in Menisperma, varying 

 in proportion to the more strictly cellular pith in dilfereut specie and individuals. 



In Cocculus macrocarpus the young shoots have the same structure as those of 

 C villosus, the outer pith-cells next the wood being elongated, woody, and dense. 



sion of concentric zones of wood-wedges, irregularly arranged around an exceutric 

 axis ; the number of zones on one semi-diameter being eight or ten, and on the other 

 about twenty, owiug to occasional union or suppression. The wedges of each zone 

 are separated by thin medullary plates, which do not run in straight lines from the 

 centre to the circumference. 



1. C. macrocarpus (W. et A.! Prod. i. 13) ; foliis fere rotunda- 

 tis glabris lono;e petiolatis, paniculis longissimis, drupis obovato-obloii- 

 g\$.— Wight, III. i. 22. L 7. Diploclisia niacrocarpa, Miers m Taylor s 



Ann. ser. 2. vii. 42. mr ' 



Hab. In montibus inferioribus Zeylanice, Gardner! Tkwades ! Mala- 

 bar, Wight! Concan, Graham, Law !—{v. s.) 



Frute.r alte scandens, cortice cinereo rugoso. Hamuli eleganter striatuli, atro- 

 fusci vel viridescentcs. Folia rotundata vol reniformia, basi truncate vel eordata, 

 margine subrepanda, obtusa vel retusa cum mucrone, ranus acuta, 5-nenria in rvi 

 lateralibns extrorse venosis, slaberrima, subtus glauca, 2-3 poll, longa et longitudiiic 

 paullo latiora, petiolo gracili 2-4-pollicari. Panicula secus ramos vetustiores op- 

 posite vel rarius versus apices ramulorum axillares, plerumque clongat hand raro 

 pcdales, ramos*, multittora, ramulis 1-2 -polliearibus apice corymbosis splitanis vel 

 fascicular. Sepala tenuissime membranacea, lincis puuetisque purpureis interdum 

 confluentibus (ut etiam petala et stamina et ovaria) notata. Fetala late cuiuata, tri- 

 loba, lobo medio emarginato vel eroso-deutato, rarius acutiusculo, Iateralibus circa 

 stamina involutis. Mas. Yilamenta plauiuscula, ligulata. Anther* bilociilares, ob- 

 liqu*, didymee. Fcem. Stamina sterilia 6, carnosa, lineana, obtusa. Ovaria ob- 

 longa, incurva ; styli fere requilongi, recurvi. Drap* polhcares obovato-oblongte, 

 obtusa, sarcocarpio parco viscido. Put amen tenue, lignosum dorso leviter cannaum 

 utriaqnc sidcis transversis profundis notat.im, excavatione latcrali elongate, subcur- 

 vato, superne latiore, costa longitudinali per totam longitudmem notata 



A specimen, in lea> only, collected in the Khasia hills is very bke ^^*™ 

 cannot in that state be identified with any certainty. A specimen collected in south 

 China by Seemann hss also very similar foliage. 



2. C. laurifolius (DC. Syst. i. 530, Trod. i. 100) ; arboreus fo- 

 liis lanceolatis lucidis glabris breviter petiolatis, paniculis axillanbus 

 folio bvevioribus.— Delesser/, Ic. Set. i. t. 97 ; Colebrooh- in Lmn. lr. 

 xiii. 65 ; Jrull. Cat. 49f»5 ! C. angustifolius, Ihsskarl, Sort Bog. 172; 



