28 'FLORA OF MALM A K. [Tiliacora. 



scar sub-basal ; endocarp thin, obscurely ribbed, grooved on both 

 sides. Seed horseshoe-shaped ; albumen oily, ruminate ; cotyle- 

 dons linear, fleshy, plano-convex, appressed. 



TILIACORA ACUMINATA, Miers. T. racemosa> Colebr, ; F. B* I. 

 i. 99. Cocculus acuminatiis, W. & A. 12. 



A large evergreen climbing shrub ; leaves ovate to lanceolate, 

 obtuse or cordate at base, glabrous ; flowers yellow, in racemes 

 or narrow panicles ; drupes oblong, red. 



In all Districts, common in hedges and among bushes, but 

 sometimes in forests, when it climbs to the tree-tops. 



5. Diploclisia, Miers. 



Characters of Cocculus but flowers in long drooping panicles 

 from the old wood and centre of endocarp reduced to a thin flat 

 septum. 



DIPLOCLISIA GLAUCESCENS, Diels in Engl. Pflanzenr. Menisperm. 

 225, t. 77. Cocculus macrocarpus, W. & A. 13 ; F. B. I. i. 101 ; 

 Wt. 111. i. t. 7. 



A large climber ; leaves round or broader than long, 5-iierved, 



glaucous beneath, 2-4 in. across, shorter than their petioles ; 



flowers yellow ; drupes reddish, obovoid, 1 in. long. 



Forests of the W. Ghats in Malabar, Nilgiris, Pulneys and 



Travancqre up to 6,000 ft. 



6. Cocculus, DC. 



Climbing or straggling or erect shrubs, or even trees. Flowers 

 panicled or rarely fascicled in the axils of the leaves. Sepals 6, 

 2-seriate, outer smaller. Petals 6, smaller than the sepals, 

 usually auricled at the base. J Stamens embraced by the petals ; 

 anthers subglobose, cells bursting transversely. 9 Staminode* 

 6 or 0; ovaries 3-6; styles usually cylindric. Drupes com- 

 pressed ; endocarp horseshoe - shaped, dorsally keeled and 

 tubercled, sides concave, but not reduced to a thin flat septum. 

 Seed curved ; albumen fleshy ; embryo annular ; cotyledons linear, 

 flat, appressed. 



Erect shrub or small tree ; leaves strongly 3-ribbed, caudate-acuminate ; 

 tio wers pale yellow ; peduncles glabrous 1. laurifolius. 



