above a foot long, many-flowered ; flowers rather large ; drupes 



flabrous. Concan; common. Syn. Menispermum cocculus, Linn. sp. 

 468 ; M. heteroclitum, Rox. Fl Ind. iii, 817 ; Cocculus lacunosus, 

 DC. syst. 1, 519; Prod. 1, 97. ; C. suberosus, DC. syst. 1, 519; W. 

 and A. Prod. 1, 11 ; C. populi folius, DC. Prod. 1, 97. 



2. TINOSPORA, Miers. 



1. MALABAKICA, Miers in Taylor's Annals, Ser. ii vii, 38. 

 Leaves cordate, ovate, slightly or densely pubescent beneath ; a 

 climbing shrub, with ash-coloured bark, young parts with whitish 

 hairs ; leaves 7 -nerved, 3 to 6 inches long, and nearly as broad ; 

 racemes as long as the leaf; flowers green; ripe drupes red. The 

 Concan. Menispermum malabaricum, Lam. Wilid. ; Cocculus 

 Malabaricus, DC. syst. 1, 518., Prod. 1, 97 ; llheed. Mai. vii, t. 19. 



2. T. CORDIFOLIA, Miers in Taylor's Annals, Ser. 2, vii 38. 

 A twining shrub, with scabrous corky bark, and broad cordate 

 leaves on longish petioles ; racemes axillary, solitary ; flowers 

 yellow, small ; drupe size of a small cherry, red. Concan. Syn. 

 Menispermum malabaricum, B. Lam. Diet, iv, 96; M. cordifolium, 

 Willd. Roxb. Flor Ind. iii, 811 ; Cocculus cordifolius, DC. syst. 1, 

 518. Prod. 197. Stems sold in the bazars under the name of 

 " Gulo/' the Guluncha of Bengal, and is useful in fevers. 



3. COCCULUS, DC. 



1. MACROCARPUS. W. and A. Prod. 1, 13. Shrubby, climbing ; 

 bark ash-coloured, wrinkled ; leaves rounded or reniform, cordate or 

 truncate at the base, shining, 5-nerved, quite smooth, glaucous 

 beneath ; panicles long-branched, many-flowered ; drupes obovate 

 oblong, an inch long. Jungles in the Concan. Syn. Diploclisia 

 macrocarpa, Miers in Ann. Nat. Hist., Ser. ii vii, 4'2. 



2. C. VILLOSUS, DC. Prod. 1,98. Leaves oval oblong, sub- 

 deltoid, villous ; male panicles abbreviated, female flowers I to 3 

 in the axils, small, yellow ; drupes dark-purple when ripe, of which 

 ink is made, according to Roxb., and a decoction of the roots a 

 substitute for sarsaparilla. Very common in hedges. Syn. C. 

 sepium, Coleb. in Linn. Trans, xiii, 58 ; C. hastatus, DC. Prod. 

 1, 98; Menispermum hirsatum, Linn. Roxb. Fl Ind. iii, 814 ; M. 

 Myosotoides. 



4. CISSAMPELOS, Linn. 



1 . PAREIRA, Linn. Spec. PI 1473. Climbing ; leaves reniform or 

 rounded or broadly cordate, more or less pubescent ; male cymes 

 long-peduncled, many-flowered, hairy; female racemes with large 

 round bracts ; drupes subglobose hirsute ; flowers yellowish, very 



