Jateorhiza.'] iv. MENisPERMACEJi (oliver). 43 



narrow, with short scattered setae on the nerves and veins above and beneath ; 

 often more than 1 ft. diam. ; petiole 6 in. or more. Male flowers in long 

 racemose panicles; bracts linear-subulate, setose-ciliate. Female flowers oi. 

 short, patent pedicels. I have not seen the fruit. — Cocculus palmatus, Hook. 

 Bot. Mag. 2970-7 I, non DC— Jateorhiza pahnala, Miers, 1. c. 



Mozamb. Distr. Mozambique (also iu Madagascar, Bojer). I have only seen culti- 

 vated specimens. 



This plant toay prove to be a variety of/. Columba, but the few specimens which I have 

 seen would scarcely warrant their being united at present. As the specific name palmata 

 has been applied both to this species and the foregoing, I have thought it better to sink it 

 altogether to avoid further confusion. 



3. TINOSPORA, Miers ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. 34. 



Sepals 6, in 2 series ; 3 inner larger. Petals 6, shorter than the inner 

 sepals, shortly narrowed to the base. Male fl. : Stamens 6, free; anthers 

 ovoid or oblong-ovoid, 2-locular, dehiscing longitudinally. Female fl. : Sta- 

 minodia 6, Carpels 3, with torn stigmas. Drupes ovoid or plano-convex, 

 with the scar of the stigma near the apex ; putamen slightly concnve on the 

 inner face. Seed meniscoid ; albumen fleshy, ruminate. Embryo rather 

 cui-ved, with laterally divaricate cotyledons. — Climbing slirubs. Leaves usually 

 cordate. Racemes simple, slender, axillary or terminal, with fascicled or 

 solitary flowers. 



A small genus, with 4 Asiatic, 2 Australian, and 1 African species. The dcscriplion of 

 the female flower and fruit is from the ' Genera Plantarum.' 



1. T. Bakis, Miers in Ann. Nat. Hist. Ser. 2. vii. 38. A dimber, with 

 usually more or less verrucose thick and fleshy bark ; glabrous or the annual 

 shoots very thinly or obsoletely pubescent. Leaves cordate, acute or obtuse, 

 entire, glabrous, somewhat coriaceous or rather fleshy, in our specimens not 

 exceeding 1^ in. in breadth, on petioles, of about half their length. Riicemes 

 simple, axillary or terminating lateral, leafy shoots. Flowers fascicled or 

 solitary, in the axils of minute, subulate or lanceolate, glabrous bracts. Male 

 flowers with the inner sepals spreading, shortly narrowed to the base. Fila- 

 ments not thickened above. Female flowers and fruit I have not seen. — 

 Cocculus Bakis, Rich, in Fl. Seneg. 12. t. 4. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Leprieur and Heudelot ! 



Nile Iiand. Senuar, Kotschy ! 



Probably to this species, an itnperfect specimen, with S A-, from the Zambesi country 

 {Br. Kirk), may be referred. The filaments appear to be adherent below to their opposed 

 petals, but this is uncertain. It is described under the name of T. tenera, by Mr. Miers 

 (Ann. Nat. Hist. Ser. 3. xiii. 322). 



4. TILIACORA, Colebrooke ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. 36. 



Sepals 6, in two series, 3 outer smaller, inner valvate or scarcely ind)ricate. 

 Petals 6, shorter tjian the inner sepnls cuneate or unguiculate. Male tl. : 

 Stamens 6, free or connate belo.v ; anthers bilocular, dehiscing longitudinally. 

 Female fl. : Carpels 9-12 ; styles subulate. Drupes stipitate, obovate, laterally 

 compressed, the scar of the style near the hiluni. Putanuii sulfate. Seed 



