31 S Mr. J. Miers on the Menispermacese. 



nerves beneath are united by web-shaped membrane, leaving 

 hollow spaces beneath them, while the corresponding portion of 

 the upper surface shows a lai-ge brown spot, as in T, cordifolia. 

 The leaves are 2^-4 inches long, with a broad angular sinus 

 ■| inch deep; they are 2-3|^ inches broad, on a very slender pe- 

 tiole 1-1^ inch long. The male slender racemes are 3|-8 inches 

 long, with alternate branches ^-f inch long, bracteolated at 

 base, and bearing two or three flowers on very short pedicels. 



3. Tinospora Malaharica, nob. /. c. ; Hook. & Th. /. c. 183 ; — Coc- 

 culus Malabaricus, DC. Syst. i. 518, Prodr. i. 97; Rheede, 

 Hort. Mai. vii. 1. 19, 20 ; — Menispermum Malabaricum, Lam. 

 Diet. iv. 96 ; Willd. Syst. iv. 826 ; — ramulis tortuosis, tereti- 

 bus, verruculosis, pilis albidis adspersis ; foliis sparsis, obo- 

 vatis, acutis, apice acuminatis, imo profunde cordatis, sinu 

 rotundato, 7-nerviis, reticulatis, pallide membranaceis, supra 

 pilosulis, subtus pubescentibus ; petiolo tereti, basi incrassato, 

 piloso, limbo fere dimidio breviore ; racemis supra-axillaribus, 

 tomentosis, 6 folii longitudine, $ simplicibus, petiolo bre- 

 vioribus ; floribus viridibus ; drupis cerasiformibus, pallide ru- 

 bris. — In Malabar, v. s. in herb. Soc. Linn. (Wall. Cat. 4969). 



In this distinct species the leaves are about 5f inches long 

 from the bottom of the basal lobes, or 4| inches from the inser- 

 tion of the petiole to the apex, 4 inches broad, on a petiole 

 8 inches long; the fructiferous raceme is 2 inches long, the 

 alternate pedicels about 3 lines long; the drupes, of a bright-red 

 colour, are stipitated ; the putamen, about 3 lines long, marked 

 externally by many sharp-pointed tubercles arranged in longitu- 

 dinal interrupted lines. 



Var. scabridula; — foliis remotis, longe petiolatis, suborbicula- 

 ribus, gradatim angustioribus, apice repente cuspidato-at- 

 tenuatis, imo profunde ac late cordatis, pallidis, supra rugu- 

 loso-scabris, subtus tomento sparso pubescentibus, nervis pro- 

 minentibus, et ad basin membranula hgatis ; petiolo limbo 

 subsequilongo, imo incrassato et torto, puberulo. — Khasia et 

 Chittagong, v. s. in herb. Hook. 

 Its leaves are 5^ inches long (or 4| from the basal sinus to 



the apex), 4| inches broad ; petiole 4|-4| inches long. 



4. Tinospora tomentosa, nob. /. c. ; Hook. & Th. /. c. 182 ; — Coc- 

 culus tomentosus, Coleb. Linn. Trans, xiii. 59; — Menispermum 

 tomentosum, Roxb. Fl.Ind. iii. 813;— ramuHs striatis, cortice 

 rimoso, piloso, tuberculis minutis exasperatis; foliis orbiculato- 

 ovatis, basi in sinum latissimum cordatis, apice rotundato-ob- 

 tusis, retusis, margine sinuatis, 7-nerviis, valde membranaceis, 



