98 v. MENISPERMACEJE. (Hook. f. & Thorns.) [Filraitrea. 



3 minute bracts, inner larger. Petals 0. MALE fl. : Stamens 6, filaments 

 clavate; anthers terminal, adnate, cells spreading, bursting vertically 

 FEMALE fl. : Staminodes 6. Ovaries 3, ovoid, 2-ovuled ; stigma sessile, punc- 

 tiform. Drupes 3, 1 -seeded, oblong, terete, style-scar subterminal ; endo- 

 carp oblong, dorsally convex, ventrally flattened and channelled, hardly 

 intruded. Seed oblong, terete, reniforni on a transverse section, albumen 

 copious, horny ; cotyledons foliaceous, longitudinally curved, oblong, very 

 thin ; radicle short, cylindric. 



1. P. tinctoria, Lour. Fl. Coch. ii. 769 ; leaves 3-neryed from the 

 base or above the base. //../'. <(" '/'./'/. I ml. -2()4. F. tinctoria, fasciculate, 

 and chloroleuca, fliers Conirib. iii. 41, 42, t. 03. Cocculus Fibraurea, DC. 

 Prodr. i. 99. 



PENAKO, Phillips ; MALACCA, Griffith. DISTRIB. Cochin-China, Borneo. 



Branches pale ; bark lax. Leaves 4-7 by 2-4 in., elliptic-ovate or oblong, thick, 

 coriaceous, obtusely acuminate, shining alo\e. pain benea'h, :5-plineived from tin- base 

 or above it; petiole l .J, :; in., st Eular. /' n fasci.-lrd, much 



branched from the ba^e. buds globo.-e; fruiting panicle 1 ft., woody; peduncle^ 

 Drii/ics 1 in. We await evidence of there being more than MIC known species of this 

 genus, pending which we adhere to the opinion expressed in Flora Indica. l.uirf* like 

 those of Tiiioniitr'unn jK-ti-Jtirr, but not reticulate beneath. As (;riflith;(ms^. in Herb. 

 Hook.) correctly observes, there are 2 superposed ovules iu each ovary, of which the 

 upper only becomes a seed. 



<;. ANAXKXRTA, Colebrooke. 



A climbing shrub. Flowers panicled. Septif* n, with 2 a} ] tressed bracts. 

 Petals 0. MALE 11. : J //////> sfssile,m a stout column, 2-eelled Imrst ing trans- 

 versely. FEM. fl. : &(<i ////// >< /f-x I), clavate, l-sn-iate. (J/-<tri>* :;, on a short 

 gvnophore ; stigma sulx-apitate, rcilt-xc'd. /Jni/x on a :; lid .uynojdiore, 

 obliquelv ovoid, doi>ally -ildions, style-scar sultbasal; eiulocarp \\oody. 

 Seed globose, embracing the subgloLx.M.. hollow intruded endocarp, albumen 

 dense, of horny granules ; embryo curved, cotyledons narrow-oblong thin, 

 spreading. 



1. A. Cocculus, TF. <(;J. Prndr. i. 440; leaves ovate or ovate-cordate 

 rarely oldong-ovate. II. f. >( T. /'/. ////. \^~>. A. ianieulata, C'oA-6. A. 

 fiaveseens and toxifera, Mi>rn C,,1rib. iii. 51. Menisp. Cocculus, Linn.; 

 J!.>-1>. /'/. lid. iii. M)7. M. heteroclitum, linxh. I.e. M 7. Cocculus laeiinosns, 

 DC. Pro,!,-, i. 1)7. C. sul.erosus DC. I.e. ; W. & A. Prodr. i. 11 ; Wall. Cat. 

 4954. C. populifolius, DC. I.e. 



EASTKUX UKNCAL; Kn ASIA HILLS; ASSAM; and from CONCAN and ORISSA to CEYLON, 

 DJSTKIIJ. Malayan Islands. 



Hark corky ; shoots htout, glabrous, striate. Leaves 4-8 in.'long, as broad or narrower, 

 acute or acuminate, base rarely acute, glabrous above, hairy in the nerve-axils beneath, 

 base 3 nerved ; petiole 2-6 in. Panicles on the old branches 1-14 ^-i pendulous. 

 Flowers % in. dium., glabrous, tic^als deciduous. Drupes | in., black, glabrous. 



7. COSCXNXUXK, Colebrooke. 



Climbing shrubs. Flowers in dense globose heads. Sepals 6, "with a bract, 

 orbicular. Petals 3, large, spreading, elliptic. MALE fl. : Stamens 6, filaments 

 cylindric, 3 inner connate to the middle ; anthers aduate, outer 1- inner 2- 

 celled, bursting vertically. FEM. fl. : titaminod.-s (>. Ovaries 3-6, subgloboae; 

 styles subulate, reflexed. Drupes globose j endocarp bony. Seed globose, 



