Pachygone.'] flora. INDJCA. 



20:) 



apice incurva ; anther* subglobosae, didymse, biloculares. Ovaria ru- 

 dimentaria 3, minutissima. Fcem. Stamina 6, ananthera, breviter cla- 

 vata. Ovaria 3. Styli crassi, horizontales. Drupce reniformes, late- 

 ribus leviter excavatse. Semen hippocrepiforme, radicula brevissiina, 

 stylo subbasilari approximata, cotyledonibus semicylindricis vel sub- 

 clavatis fere corneis. — Frutices scandentes, floribus axillaribusracemom. 



A piece of the stem of ? achy gone, one-fourth of an inch in diameter, is firm and 

 woody, faintly sulcate externally. Pith occupying the greater part of the stem, 

 wholly composed of vertically elongated, parallel woody cells, with square superim- 

 posed ends, the inner shortest. Medullary rays of mural cells. Wood -v edges about 

 thirty, placed near the circumference, of dotted pleurenchynia and few large vessels. 

 Liber-bundles closely applied to wood, semilunar, rather broad. Bark a narrow 

 cellular zone of long cells, with very thick transparent walls. 



1. P. ovata (Miers, mss.) ; foliis ovato-oblongis subtrapezoideis, 

 racemis masculis folia superantibus. — Cissampelos ovatn, Poir.; DC. 

 Syst. i. 537, Prod. i. 102. Cocculus leptostachyus et brachystachvus, 

 DC. Syst. i. 528, Prod. i. 99 ; Decaisne, Timor 96. C. Plukenetii, DC 

 Syst. i. 520, Prod. i. 97; W. et A J Prod. i. 14; Wight, Ic. t. 824, 

 825. Cocculus Wightianus, Wall. Cat. 4959 A! 



Hab. la Zevlania, Thwaites ! et in Carnaticae arenosis praesertim 

 prope mare, Wight! — {p. s.) 



Bistrib. Timor. 



Frutex alte scandens, ramosissimus. Hamuli eleganter striatuli, tomento flave- 

 scente incani, demum glabrescentes. Folia basi cuueata vel rotuudata, apice obtusa 

 vel retusa cum mucrone, 3-5-nervia, crasse coriacea, utrinque glabra, H-2 poll, 

 longa, J-1J lata, petiolo -|-J-pollicari incano-pubescente, apice incrassato et sub- 

 articulato ; petioli et racemi basi fasciculo pilorum circumdati. Racemi graciles, pu- 

 bescentes vel tomentosi, masculi folia superautes, fceminei folia vix rcquautes vel 

 breviores. Pedicelli flores vix superautes. Bractea subulatae. Flores minuti, 

 masculi in axillis bractearum fasciculati, fceminei solitarii. Sepala interiora ovalia 

 vel obovata, membrauacea. Petala acute vel obtuse bidentata. Drup* subcom- 

 pressse, pisi magnitudine, ltcviusculee. Putamen rugulosum. 



Decaisne has pointed out the probable identity of C. brachyst achy its and C. lep- 

 tostachjus with one another, and with C. Plukenetii; and as his description, as well 

 as a specimen of C. brachystachyus from Timor in Mr. Bentham's Herbarium, agrees 

 precisely with the Ceylon plant, which varies with three or live nerves, we have not 

 hesitated to unite them all. It is curious to remark the recurrence of this plant, 

 which is a native of the drier parts of the Carnatic and Ceylon, in Timor, which haa 

 a drier climate than Sumatra and Java. 



14. PIBRAUREA, Lour 



Sepala 6, biserialiter imbricata, ovalia vel obovata. Petala 0. Mas. 

 Stamina 6; Jilamenta crassa, carnosa, angulata, infra antheram linea 

 elevata obliqua cincta, et antice et postice subcristata; anthera late 

 ovales, biloculares, lateraliter dehiscentes. F (EM. Ovaria 3-6. Drupa 

 totidem ovoideae, laeves. 



conaceis. 



tiolis ban et apice articulate et incrassatis, pauieulis axillaribus rarno- 

 tissimis. 



In Mr. Miers' paper this genu.- is placed among Heterocrine,?, but he had not 

 *«eu perfect seeds. We are iuduced to transfer it to the exalbuminou* tribe., from 



