Coscmium.] v. MENISPERMACE^E. (Hook. f. & Thorns.) 99 



embracing a globose intrusion of the endocarp; albumen fleshy, ruminate 

 in the ventral face ; embryo straight, cotyledons orbicular, spreading, thin, 

 sinuate, laciniate, or fenestrate. DISTRIB. Species 2 ; tropical Asiatic. 



1. C. fene stratum, Colebrooke in Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. 65 ; leaves 

 slightly peltate suborbicular yellow-tomentose beneath, heads umbelled, 

 cotyledons laciniate. Miers in Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 6458 ; Contrib. iii. 22, 

 t. 88 ; H.f. & T. Fl. Ind. 178. C. Wallichianum and Wightianum, Miers in 

 Tayl. Ann. Ser. 2, vii. 37. Menisp. fenestratum, Gcertn. ; DC. Prodr. i. 103 ; 

 Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 809. Cocculus Blumeanus, Wall. Gat. 4971 (partly]. 

 Pereira medica, Lindl. Fl. Med. 370. 



WESTERN PENINSULA, Herb. Wight; MALACCA, Maingay ; SINGAPORE, Wattich; 

 CEYLON, Central and Southern provinces. (Specimens all imperfect.) 



Young shoots hoary-tomentose. Leaves 5-7 by 4-6 in., young oblong-deltoid ob- 

 scurely peltate, acuminate, glabrous above, hoary and reticulate beneath ; petiole 3-5 in. 

 Heads | | in. diam. ; pedicels 1 in. ' Flowers green. Petals orbicular, acute, and 

 sepals persistent. Drupes 1-3, \ in. diam., subglobose, villous. Perhaps 3 species are 

 confounded here. Wight's has smaller broader and more membranous leaves, whiter 

 beneath; the Malayan are more tomeutose. 



2. C. Blum e aim m, Miers Contrib. iii. 23 ; leaves deeply peltate, thick 

 coriaceous ovate or oolong white-tomentose beneath, heads 'racemed. 

 H.f. & T. Fl. Ind. 179. Cocculus Blumeanus, Wall. Cat. 5971 (partly). 



PENANG, SINGAPORE, and MALACCA, Wattich, &c. 



Branches woolly. Leaves 7-12 by 3-6 in., peltate obtuse or acuminate, dark-green 

 and shining above ; petiole 3-5 in. Racemes 3-4 in., stout, tomentose, peduncles 1 in. 



Maingay 's collection contains fruits of a Coscinium from Malacca, of which he de- 

 scribes the cotyledons as fenestrate ; the carpels are l.f 14 in. diam., globose, bright 

 yellow, sarcocarp very thick, endocarp woody ; seed f in. diam., albumen so hard that 

 we have failed to remove the cotyledons so as to verify Maingay's description ; it was 

 accompanied with leaves and flowers of Fibraurea (Distrib. Hb. Maingay, 115). 

 o A fourth species in Maingay's herbarium has leaves like C. fenestratum, but more 

 peltate, pale brown beneath, with very appressed pubescence ; a similar plant grows in 

 J ava and Sumatra. 



8. TILIACORA, Colebrooke. 



A climbing shrub. Flowers in axillary panicles, dioecious or polygamous. 

 Sepals 6. 2-seriate, outer much smaller. Petals 6, minute, cuneate. MALE 

 fl. : Stamens 6, filaments subcylindric ; anthers adnate, bursting vertically. 

 FEM. fl. : Rudimentary carpels 3. Ovaries 3-12 ; styles short subulate. 

 Drupes obovoid, pedicelled, subcompressed, style-scar subbasal ; endocarp 

 thin, obscurely ribbed, grooved on both sides. Seed hooked, albumen oily, 

 ruminate ; cotyledons linear, fleshy, plano-convex appressed. 



1. T. racemosa, Coleb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. 67 ; leaves ovate or 

 ovate-cordate acuminate. Miers Contrib. iii. 76, t. 104. T. frateruaria, 

 cuspidiformis and abnormalis, Miers, I.e. 77, 78. T. acuminata, Jfiers in 

 Tayl. Ann. Ser. 2, vi. 39 ; H.f. & T. Fl. Ind. 187. Menisp. acuminatum and 

 radiatum, Lamk. M. polycarpum, Roxb, Fl. Ind. iii. 816. Cocculus acu- 

 minatus, DC. Prodr. i. 99 ; W '. & A. Prodr. i. 12. C. radiatus, DC. I.e. 99. 

 D. poly carpus, Watt. Cat. 496&'(*& K. L.)Rheede Hort. Mai. vii. t. 3. 



Throughout tropical India, from OUDE and BENGAL, to CONCAN, OBISSA, CEYLON and 

 SINGAPORE. DISTRIB. Java. 



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