Saccopelalam. ] ANONACEJJ. 11 



B 2251. (33 Ibs.) Received from the Andaraans in 1866 under the name of Thitpyoo ; 

 ]>;is a white soft wood, with small, scanty pores often in short radial lines. The 

 medullary rays are moderately l>road, far apart, joined by innumerable parallel bars, 

 and slirw well on a radial section. 



13273. (38 Ibs.) Received from Burma in 1867 under the name Bamau ; has an olive 

 grey wood; it is handsome, even-grained\ moderately hard iui<i a certain 



lustre. Pores small, often subdivided. .Medullary rays line. Numerous faint white 

 transvei-su bars across the medullary rays. According to Kurz, Bamcm is Tctranthcra 

 grandis ; butonaccountofthetrausver.se bars in the wood, we have placed it under 

 Anonacese. 



B 2236. (53 Ibs.) Received from the Andamans in 1 866 under the name of Pan-noo ; 

 has a similar structure to Hainan. Wood yellowish grey, hard. Pores small, 

 transverse diameter equal to or one-half the distance between the medullary rays, which 

 are fine and are joined by numerous transverse bars. 



ORDER V. MENISPERMACE^3. 



An order which, in India with the single exception of the species described below, 

 contains only climbing plants. Of the 17 genera found in India, many contain only 

 single species. These 17 genera belong to 4 tribes, viz., 



Tribe I. Tinosporese .... Aspidocarya, Paralcena, Tinospora, 



JFibraurea, Anamirta. 

 II. Cocculeae . . ." Tiliacora, Limacia, Cocculus, Peri- 



campylus. 

 III. Cissampelidesa . . . Stephania, Cissampelos, Cyclea,- 



Lophopeta lum. 

 IV. Pachygonese .... P achy gone, Pycnarrhena, Hcemato- 



carpus, Antitaxis. 



Anamirta Cocculus, W. and A. ; Hook. Fl. Ind. i. 99 ; Brandis 8 ; Kurz i. 53 

 (Menispermum Cocculus, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 807) Vern. Kakmari, Hind., a climbing 

 shrub of Southern and Eastern India and Burma, has bitter berries which in India are 

 used to poison fish and crows (whence the native name), and in Europe under the name of 

 'Cocculus indicus ' in the adulteration of beer. Tinospora cortfifoli.a, Miers ; Hook. Fl. 

 Ind. i. 97 ; Brandis 8 ; Kurz i. 52 ; Gamble 4 (Mcnispermum cordifoliiim, Willd. ; Roxb. 

 Fl. Ind. iii. 811) Vern. JBatindu, Pb. ; Golancha, Beng. ; Gurcha, Kumaun ; Gurjo, Nep. ; 

 Tippa tiga, Tel. ; Galwail, Bombay, is a well known climber which sends down long 

 filiform runners from the branches of the trees over which it climbs ; the root is used in 

 native medicine, and elephants are fond of the stem and runners. Cissampelos Parcira, 

 Linn. Hook. Fl. Ind. i. 103; Brandis 10; Gamble 4 (C. convolvulacea, Roxb. Fl. Ind. 

 iii. 842) Vern. Katori, parbik, patalci, tikri, Pb. ; DaJch nirbisi, part, N. W. P. ; 

 Harjeuri, Oudh ; Batulpati, Nep. ; Pata, Tel., a climber common both to the old 

 and new worlds, furnishes the Radix Pareirse of druggists. Cocculus Le&ba, DC.; 

 Hook., Fl. Ind. i. 102 ; Brandis 9. Vern. Vallur, illar, Pb. ; and C. villosus, DC. ;' 

 Hook. Fl. Ind. i. 101 ; Brandis 9 (Menispcrmum hirsutum, Linn. ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 

 814). Vern. Hicr, dicr, are large climbers of the dry and arid zones, while Tiliacora 

 racemosa, Coleb. ; Hook. Fl. Ind. i. 99; Brandis 10; Kurz i. 54 (MenisperiHian poly- 

 carpon, Roxb. FL Ind. iii. 816). Vern. TiliaJcoru, Beng. ; Earwanth, rangoe, Hind. ; 

 Tiga mushadi, Tel., is a large climber of most parts of India, often covering tall trees 

 with its dense dark green foliage. Other genera, such as Aspidocarya, Stephania 

 and Parabcena, furnish climbing shrubs common in Eastern Bengal and Assam. 



" The structure of the wood of Menispermacese is remarkable, and 

 differs in several respects from the wood of other Dicotyledons. The 

 vascular bundles of a young- branch (which in most Dicotyledons unite 

 and form concentric rings of wood and liber) generally remain distinct 

 in MenispermaceaB, and are separated by broad radial masses of cellular 

 tissue, corresponding to the medullary rays of ordinary wood. After 

 some time these original wood fascicles cease growing, and in the cortical 

 cellular tissue exterior to the liber originates a second circle of bundles 

 similar to the first formed, excepting in the absence of spiral vessels. 



