116 ANNALS OF ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. 
acute or acuminate, entire or minutely and remotely serrate, base acute, glabrous or 
glaberulous above except the 14 to 18 pairs of bold spreading pubescent nerves, under 
surface minutely tomentose; length of blade 5 to 10 in.; breadth 3 to 4 ш., petiole 
about 1 in. Flowers about 3 in. in diam., axillary, solitary, on slender tomentose 
peduncles 1 to 2 in. long, or in few-flowered, linear-bracteolate pedunculate racemes. 
Sepals 5, ovate-oblong, velvety-tomentose externally, glabrous internally, Petals 5, obovate, 
pale yellow, veined, wavy. Stamens indefinite, in several series nearly free; anthers linear, 
erect, opening by apical pores. Pistils about 12, with linear recurved stigmas, ovules 
numerous. Follicles with several compressed arillate seeds. Рета meliosmefolia, Hook. 
fil, & Th FL Br. Ind. I, 36. 
Malacca, Perak. 
Original'y described as a Dillenia by Sir Joseph Hooker who had not seen the fruit. 
Prate 130. Wormia meliosmefolia, King. 1, branch with solitary flower just opening; 2, branch with racemose 
flowers just opening; 3, fully expanded flower dissected; 4, flower after the petals have fallen off, showing the accrescent 
sepals; 5, ripe follicles: of natural size; 6, anther: enlarged. 
PLATE 181. 
CoccuLUs KUNSTLERI, King in Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, for 1889, pf. 2, р. 28. 
Nat. Ord. Menispermacee. 
A glabrous climber. Young branches striate, pale. Leaves membranous, with long 
petioles, peltate, rotund, acute; nerves 9, radiating from the petiolar insertion, thin but 
prominent on the pale under surface; length of blade 3:25 to 4 in. breadth about 
З in., or less; petiole slender, terete, not dilated at the base, about 3 in. long. Panicles 
racemoid, in fascicles of 2 to 4 from flat warty tubercles on the stem, narrow, the 
lateral branches only about "5 in. long, few-flowered. Sepals 6, 2-seriate, the outer 
smaller, Petals 6, rhomboid, smaller than the sepals. Male flower; stamens 6, each 
embraced by a petal; filaments free, clavate; anthers broad, 4-celled. Female flower ; 
staminodes 6 or 0. Ripe drupes 1 to 1:25 in. long, and about '7 in. broad, narrowly 
sub-obovoid, compressed; pericarp of a thin pulp; endocarp horny, narrowly horse-shoe- 
shaped, the edge boldly ridged, the sides with deep radiating grooves and the central 
part with a deep vertical hollow; embryo sausage-shaped, bent along the circumferential 
chamber of the endocarp. 
Perak, Ulu Bubong; King’s collector, Nos. 4417 and 10282. 
This has the flower of Cocculus, but the fruit of Stephania. It comes nearest to the Indian 
С. macrocarpus, which has a similar though smaller fruit, and, like that species, would belong to Mier’s 
genus JDiploclisia. It must be near D. pictinervis of that author. 
PrarE 131. Cocculus Kunstleri, King. 1, branch with leaves; 2, raceme-like panicles of male-flowers removed 
from the stem; 3, panicles with ripe fruit also from the stem; 4 and 5, seeds: of natural size; 6, male flower dissected, 
the six sepals being detached; 7, anther embraced by a petal; 8 anther: enlarged. 
PLATE 132. 
CvcLEA ELEGANS, King in Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, for 1889, рі. 2, p. 387. 
Nat. Ord. Menispermacee. 
Scandent; young branches spirally striate, puberulous, as are the petioles and 
panicles; otherwise glabrous. Leaves slightly peltate, membranous, shining on both 
