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concavum, reflexuni, glabrum. Drupa 3, vel abortu pauciores, 

 gibbose subglobosae, vel transversim oblongae, camosse, gla- 

 brae, sicca, rugulosae; putamen osseuui, subglobosum, vel ob- 

 longum, subcompressum, zona peripherica canaliculata cir- 

 cunidaturn, loculo cyclice hippocrepiformi condylum circum- 

 cingente; condyltis magnus, excentrice centralis, convexus, 

 intus septulo perforate 2-cameratii8, meatu lineari vel ovato 

 extus utrinque transversim pertusus. Semen loculo conforme, 

 fere annulare, intus subplanum et lateraliter conipressum ; 

 integumenta tenuia, ad facieni ventralem raphe longitudinal! 

 signata, et hinc intra fissurani condyli insinuata; embryo intra 

 albumen simplex inclusus, per totam longitudinem tenuis- 

 simus, fere annularis, pariter compresso-teres, cotyledonibus 

 accumbcntibus, radicula supera ad stylum spectante 4-plo 

 longioribus. 

 Frutices scandentes in Asia tropica et in insulis creseenteg ; folia 

 elliptica, acuminata, pleraque glabra, 3-nervia, petiolata ; in- 

 florescentia supra-axillari, paniadata, petiole longior et folio 

 hrevior; flores minimi, velutini. 



The characters of the following species are given in the 'Con- 

 tributions to Botany,' vol. iii. 



§ I. EuLiMACiA. Flores hexandri. 



1. Limacia scandens, Lour. — Cochin China (Loureiro). 



2. oblonga, nob. ; — Cocculus oblongus, JVall. — Malacca. 



8. velutina, nob. ; — Cocculus velutinus. Wall. — Sincapore 



(Wall. Cat. 4970) ; Moulmein (Lobb, 335) ; ins. Philip. 

 (Cuming, 2402). 



4. distincta, nob. — Mergui (Griffiths). 



5. iuomata, nob. — Sincapore (Lobb). 



6. longifolia, nob. ; — Cocculus longifolius, DC. — Timor. 



§ II. Sterboclea. Flores triandri. 



7. triandra, nob. ; Menispermum triandnim, Roxb. ; — 



Cocculus triandrus, Coleb. (Wall. 4962). 



8. Wallichiana, nob.— Amherst (Wall. Cat. 459 c) (non 



A, B). 



9. Amherstiana, nob. ; — Cocculus Amherstianus, DC. 



20. Menispermum. 

 This genus, formerly numerous in species, is now confined to 

 two extratropical climbing plants, one of North-American, the 

 other of North-Asian growth, both in latitudes beyond the pa- 

 rallel of 30°. The authors of the * Flora Indica ' state that the 

 genua only differs from Cocculus in having twelve to eighteen 



