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concavum, reflexum, glabrum. Drupe 3, vel abortu pauciores, 
gibbose subglobosz, vel transversim oblongz, carnose, gla- 
bree, sicce, rugulose ; putamen osseum, subglobosum, vel ob- 
longum, subcompressum, zona peripherica canaliculata cir- 
cumdatum, loculo cyclice hippocrepiformi condylum circum- 
cingente; condylus magnus, excentrice centralis, -convexus, 
intus septulo perforato 2-cameratus, meatu lineari vel ovato 
extus utrinque transversim pertusus. Semen loculo conforme, 
fere annulare, intus subplanum et lateraliter compressum ; 
integumenta tenuia, ad faciem ventralem raphe longitudinali 
signata, et hine intra fissuram condyli msinuata ; embryo intra 
albumen simplex inclusus, per totam longitudinem tenuis- 
simus, fere annularis, pariter compresso- -teres, cotyledonibus 
accumbentibus, radicula supera ad stylum spectante 4-plo 
longioribus. 
Frutices scandentes in Asia tropica et in insulis crescentes ; folia 
elliptica, acuminata, pleraque glabra, 3-nervia, petiolata; m- 
florescentia supra-axillari, paniculata, petiolo longior et folio 
brevior ; flores minim, velutint. 
The characters of the following species are given in the ‘Con- 
tributions to Botany,’ vol. i. 
§ I. Eunimacta. Flores hexandri. 
1. Limacia scandens, Lour.—Cochin China (Loureiro). 
2. oblonga, nob. ;—Cocculus oblongus, Wall.— Malacca. 
3. velutina, nob. ;—Cocculus velutinus, Wall.—Sincapore 
(Wall. Cat. 4970); Moulmein (Lobb, 335); ins. Philip. 
(Cuming, 2402). 
4. distincta, nob.— Mergui (Griffiths). 
5. inornata, nob.—Sincapore (Lobb). 
6. longifolia, nob. ;—Cocculus longifolius, DC.—Timor. 
§ IL. Srersociesa. Flores triandrt. 
We triandra, nob.; Menispermum triandrum, Roxb. ;— 
Cocculus triandrus, Coleb. (Wall. 4962). 
8. Wallichiana, nob.—Awherst (Wall. Cat. 459 c) (non 
A, B). 
9: Amherstiana, nob. ;—Cocculus Amherstianus, DC. 
20. MrenisPERMUM. 
This genus, formerly numerous in species, 1s now confined to 
two extratropical climbing plants, one of North-American, the 
other of North-Asian growth, both in latitudes beyond the pa- 
rallel of 30°. The authors of the ‘ Flora Indica’ state that the 
genus only differs from Cocculus in having twelve to eighteen 
