318 Mr. J. Miers on the Menispermaceze. 
nerves beneath are united by web-shaped membrane, leaving 
hollow spaces beneath them, while the corresponding portion of 
the upper surface shows a large brown spot, as in 7’. cordifolia. 
The leaves are 24-4 inches long, with a broad angular sinus 
1 inch deep; they are 2-3} inches broad, on a very slender pe- 
tiole 1-14 inch long. The male slender racemes are 33-8 inches 
long, with alternate branches j—-$ inch long, bracteolated at 
base, and bearing two or three flowers on very short pedicels. 
3. Tinospora Malabarica, nob. l. c.; Hook. & Th. J. c. 183 ;—Coc- 
culus Malabaricus, DC. Syst. 1. 518, Prodr.i.97; Rheede, 
Hort. Mal. vii. t. 19, 20 ;—Menispermum Malabaricum, Lam. 
Dict. v.96; Willd. Syst. iv. 826 ;—yramulis 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, ¢ folu 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 52 inches long 
from the bottom of the basal lobes, or 42 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 ligatis; petiolo limbo 
subequilongo, imo incrassato et torto, puberulo.—Khasia et 
Chittagong, v. s. in herb. Hook. 
Its leaves are 5} inches long (or 48 from the basal sinus to 
the apex), 4? inches broad ; petiole 44-42 inches long. 
4. Tinospora tomentosa, nob. 1. c.; Hook. & Th. 1. ce. 182 ;—Coe- 
culus tomentosus, Coleb. Linn. Trans. xiii. 59; —Menispermum 
tomentosum, Row. Fl. Ind. iii. 818 ;—ramulis 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, 
