Limacia.] v. MENISPERMACE^E. (Hook. f. & Thorns.) 101 



From MERGUI to MALACCA, PENANG and SINGAPORE, &c. 



Pubescence yellowish. Leaves 2-6 by f-4 in., variable, obtuse acute or rounded, 

 base rounded or acute, triple-nerved, usually glabrous above ; petiole 4~^i i n - Panicles 

 axillary or supra-axillary, solitary few or many, tomentose, flowers villous. Inner sepals 

 orbicular, valvate. Drupes 1 in. long, obovoid, compressed, glabrous. 



Aristega Icevifolia, Miers Contrib. iii. 376, t. 151, a plant collected by Heifer in the 

 Andamans, or in Moulmein, and of which male flowers alone are known, is probably a 

 3-petalous Limacia. 



10. COCCULUS, DC. 



Climbing or sarmentpse shrubs, rarely suberect. Petiole not dilated at 

 the base. Flowers panicled. /Sepals 6, 2-seriate, outer smaller. Petals 6, 

 smaller, usually auricled. MALE fl. : Stamens embraced by the petals, 

 anthers subglobose, cells bursting transversely. FEM. fl. : Staminodes 6 

 or 0. Ovaries 3-6 ; styles usually cylindric. Drupes laterally compressed ; 

 endocarp horseshoe-shaped, dorsally keeled and tubercled, sides excavate. 

 /Seed curved, albumen fleshy ; embryo annular, cotyledons linear, flat, ap- 

 pressed. DISTKIB. All warm climates. 



1. C. macrocarpus, W.& A. Prodr. 13; leaves suborbicular glabrous 

 long-petioled, panicles 6-12 in., drupes obovoid-oblong. H.f. & T. Fl. Ind. 

 191 ; Wight III. i. t. 7. Diploclisia macrocarpa, lepida, inclyta, and pic- 

 tinervis, Miers Contrib. iii. 280-284, t. 127. . Quinio cocculoides, Schtecht. in 

 Linncea, xxvi. 732. 



From the CONCAN southwards, and in CEYLON. DISTRIB. China. 



Branchlets dark grey, striate. Leaves 2-3 in., rather broader than long, 5-nerved, 

 obtuse retuse or rarely acute, subrepand, glaucous beneath, base truncate or cordate ; 

 petiole 2-4 in. Panicles chiefly in the old branches ; flowers corymbose or fascicled, 

 or axillary. Sepals membranous, and 3-lobed petals streaked with purple. Drupe 

 1 in., endocarp thin, woody. 



2. C. laurifolius, DC. Prodr. i. 100 ; a tree, leaves lanceolate short- 

 petioled shining, panicles axillary shorter than the leaves. Deless. Ic. Sel. 

 i. t. 97; Wall Cat. 4965; H.f. & T. Fl. Ind. 191. Menisp. laurifolium, 

 Roxb. FL Ind. iii. 815. Holopeira laurifolia, australis, and fusiformis, Miers 

 Contrib. iii. 276. 



SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA, alt. 2500 ft., from Nipal to Jamu, Wallich, &c. DISTRIB. 

 Japan, Java (cult.?). 



Trunk short ; branches pendulous, angled, striate, smooth, branchlets bearded at the 

 base. Leaves 3-6 by 1-1 1 in., coriaceous, acute or acuminate, 3-nerved ; petiole 

 |-^ in. Panicles 1-2 in., solitary or 2-superposed, corymbose, male largest ; bracts and 

 flowers minute. Sepals acute. Petals 2-lobed. /Styles reflexed. Drupes minute, 

 globose ; endocarp fragile, rugose. 



3. C. villosus, DC. Prodr. i. 98 ; branchlets villous, leaves ovate-oblong 

 subdeltoid villous, male fl. in short panicles, fern. 1-3 axillary rarely 

 racemed. Wall. Cat. 4957 ; W. & A. Prodr. 13 ; H. f. & T. Fl. Ind. 193. 

 C. sepium, Coleb. in Tram. Linn. Soc. xiii. 58. C. hastatus and aristo- 

 lochise, DC. I.e. 98. Menisp. villosum, Lamk. (not Roxb.}. M. hirsutum, 

 Linn. ; Roxb. FL. Ind. iii. 814. M. myosotpides, Linn. Holopeira villosa, 

 laeviuscula, and auriculata, Miers Contrib. iii. 271-273, t. 126. 



Throughout tropical and subtropical India, from the base of the HIMALAYA to 

 MALABAR and PEGU (absent in the Eastern Peninsula and Ceylon). DISTRIB. Trop. 

 Africa. 



Leaves 2-3 by 1^-2 in., sometimes sublanceolate, retuse or obtuse and mucronate, 

 sometimes 3-lobed, base subcordate or truncate, young villous on both surfaces ; pe- 



