NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



Spirospermum 1 has the male flowers of Cocculus, but with more 

 vertical anthers of submarginal or slightly introrse longitudinal 

 dehiscence. The female flower is unknown, but the fruit is charac- 

 teristic ; it is flattened and orbicular, and rolled round itself in a 

 plane into a spiral ; while the thin albumen and embryo, contained 

 in the stone, are rolled up with it. S. penduliflorum Dup.-Th./ the 

 only known species of this genus, is a climbing glabrous shrub from 

 Madagascar. Its leaves are oblong coriaceous ; and its flowers form 

 racemes, which have more ramified and slenderer axes in the male 

 plants than in the females. 



Tiliacora 3 has nearly the flower of Cocculus ; but the three inner 

 sepals are much longer than the others, and nearly petaloid. The 

 stamens have elongated introrse two-celled anthers of vertical dehis- 

 cence. The fruit consists of drupes, of which there may be as many 

 as twelve ; each is short and club-shaped ; the stone is folded 

 lengthwise over a vertical septum, over which the albuminous seed 

 is also folded. The only known species, except a doubtful one from 

 Africa, 4 is Indian. 5 



Syiiclisia 6 scabridci' is a plant from the west of Tropical Africa, whose 

 place will remain uncertain so long as the female flower and fruit 

 are unstudied ; its male flower has nine sepals, whereof the three 

 innermost are much more developed than the rest ; six small petals ; 

 and six stamens, only coherent towards the base, and bearing 

 anthers with sublateral longitudinal cells. Herein it comes very near 

 Tiliacorus, differing chiefly in that its three large inner sepals are 

 united edge to edge nearly all the way up, into a sort of tube simu- 

 lating a gamopetalous corolla. 



In Anomospermum,* the flowers again resume nearly the symmetry 



1 Dup.-Th., Gen. Nov. Madag., 19, n. 63.— ser. 3, xiv. 252.— Braunea W., Spec, iv. 797 

 DC, Syst., i. 514 ; Prodr., i. 96.— Endl., Gen., (part.). 



n. 4690.— B. H., Gen., 39, 11. 30 ; 962, n. 17 b.— * T. ? funifera Oliv., Fl. Trop. Afr., i. 44. 



Miees, in Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 3, xiii. 125.— H. 5 T. acuminata.— T. racemosa Colebe., loe. 



Bn., in Adavsonia, viii. 154. cit., 53, 67.— Men ispermum acuminatum Lamk., 



2 Cocculus milleflorus DC, Syst., i. 530 ; Diet., iv. 101.— M. radiatum Lamk., loc. cit.— 

 Prodr., i. 99, n. 42. (C. gomphioides DC, M. polycarpiim Koxb., Fl. Ind., iii. 816.— 

 Prodr.., n. 42, does not belong to this genus, as Cocculus acuminatus DC, Prodr., i. 99, n. 34. — 

 we at first thought. Its leaves are nearly those Deless., Ic. Sel., i. t. 95.— C. radialus DC, 

 of S. penduliflo, <um, but the fruits are neither Prodr., n.35.— C. bantamemis Bl., Bijdr., 26.— 

 bowed nor coiled in a spiral. Though unripe, C. polycarpus Wall., Cat., n. 4958 (part.).— 

 the seeds appear to resemble those of the Chas- Braunea menispermoides \\ ., loc. cit. 

 n.adherea. 6 Bemh., Gen . 36, n. 14. 



3 Colebh., in Trans. Linn. Soc, xiii. 53.— '' Miees, in Ann. Nat. Hist., ser. 3, xx. 

 Endl., Gen., n. 4687 (Coccu/m).— B. H., Gen., 171.— Oliv., Fl. Trop. Afr., i. 4!). 



36, 961, n. 13.— Miees, in Ann. Nat. Hist., s Miees, in Ann. Nat. Hist., ser. 2, vii. 39; 



