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reniformi-orbiculatum, subcompressum, utrinque interrupte 

 et curvate sulcatum; condylus internus, excentralis, sub- 

 cochleiformis, locellis parvis, 2-canieratus, utrinque foramine 

 angustissime lunato extus perforatus. Semen loculum iraplens, 

 cyclice curvatum, extus convexum, intus subconcavum; in- 

 tegumentum membranaceum, tenue, chalaza incrassata raphe- 

 que prominente ad condylum affixura : embryo omnino exal- 

 buminosus, cyclicus, cotyledonibus magnis, crassis, accumben- 

 tibus, radicula parva brevissima supera et ad stylum basalem 

 spectante multoties loiigioribus. 

 Frutices in Asia inter tropica et insulis scandentes ; folia ovata vel 

 ohlonga, sapius glabriuscula, petiolata ; racemi simplices, extra- 

 axillares, subpubescentes. 



The characters of the following species will be given in the 

 third volume of my ' Contributions •/ — 



1. Pachygone Plukenettii, nob. Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 2. vii. 43 ; — 

 Pachygone ovata, Hook. ^ Th. in parte, FL Ind. i. 203 ; — 

 Cocculus Plukenettii, DC. Syst. i. 520, Prodr. i. 97; Wight, 

 Icon. tab. 824, 825;— Cocculus Wightianus,^^//. Cat. 4^959; 

 — Cocculus officinarum, Pluk. [non Bauh.) Mant. 52, tab. 

 345. fig. 7; — Koon Zeylanicus, Gaertn. ii. 486, tab. 180. 

 fig. 11. — In India orientali : v. s. in herb, vai'iis (Wall. Cat. 

 4958, hb. Wight. 48, 49); in herb. Hook., Ceylon (Thwaites, 

 1057); in herb. De Cand., penins. Ind. (Leschenault). 



2. ovata, nob.. Hook. & Th. in parte, /. c. i. 203 ; — Cissam- 



pelos ovata, Pair. Diet. v. 11 ; DC. Syst. i. 537, Prodr. i: 

 102. — In India orientali: v. s, in herb. Hook., Penins. 

 (Hook. & Th.). 



3. concinna, nob. — In India orientali : v. s. in herb. Hook., 



Courtallam (Thwaites), Ceylon (Thwaites, 1050). 



4. adversa, nob. — In Zeylania : v. s. in herb. Hook., Ceylon 



(Thwaites, 1054). 



hebephylla, nob. — In Java: v, s. in herb, Mus. Brit, 



^ , Java (Horstield) ; in herb. Hook. ^ , Java (Horsfield, 



304). 

 6. odorifera, nob. — In Tenasserim : v. s. in hei'b. Hook, 



cJ et ? , Moulmein (Parish, 276) ; in herb. Mus. Brit, ^ 



(Roxburgh) . 

 7. brachystachys, nob. ; — Cocculus brachystachys, DC. 



Syst. i. 528, Prodr. i. 99. — In ins. Timor : v. s, in herb, 



Lindl. (ex Mus. Paris.). 

 8. leptostachys, nob. ;— Cocculus leptostachys, DC. Syst, i. 



528, Prodr. i. 99.— In ins. Timor. 



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