Mr. J. Miers on the Menispermacez. 319 
pallidis, supra pubescentibus, subtus cano-tomentosis ; petiolo 
limbo paulo breviore; racemis supra-axillaribus, simplicibus ; 
floribus paucis, aggregatis, sepalis expansis, petalis subin- 
tegris, drupis aurantiacis.—In Bengalia et Ava, v.s. sine flore 
aut fructu, in herb. Soc. Linn. (Wall. Cat. 4956 a, B). 
Colebrook states that its leaves are from 3 to 6 inches long, 
and about the same breadth, with a petiole of nearly equal 
length. In Wallich’s specimen they are 4 inches long, 34 inches 
broad, sinuated near the summit ; the apex is obtusely narrowed 
and deeply emarginated, the petiole being 3 inches long. In 
Roxburgh’s specimen, the sinuated margins are almost obsolete, 
while the summit has a deep emargination, with a mucronate 
point : it is 4 inches long, 34 inches broad, the petiole, thickened 
at its base, being 24 inches long. The drupes are said to be 
orange-red, the size of a large pea, enclosing a tuberculated 
putamen. 
5. Tinospora glauca, nob. ;—Cocculus glaucus, DC. Syst. 1. 521, 
Prodr. 1. 97 ;—Menispermum glaucum, Lam. Dict. iv. 100; 
Rumph. Amb. v. 40, t. 25. f. 1 ;—ramulis teneribus, teretibus, 
pilosis; foliis vagis, orbiculari-cordatis, acuminatis, imo ma- 
cula purpurascente notatis, et hinc 5-nerviis, supra flavescen- 
tibus, subtus glaucis et pubescentibus; petiolo rigido, imo 
recurvo, folio fere dimidio breviore ; racemis paniculatis, pe- 
tiolo brevioribus, drupis purpureo-nigricantibus, parvis.— 
In Amboyna. 
This is described as a climber, with distant leaves, 3-4 inches 
long, and of equal breadth. Lamarck considered this species 
to be distinguished from the preceding ones by its much shorter 
racemes and its much smaller drupes of a blackish hue, scarcely 
as large as a peppercorn: its putamen is somewhat compressed 
and tuberculated. 
6. Tinospora crispa, nob., Hook. & Th. 7. c. 183 ;—Cocculus 
erispus, DC. Syst. 1. 521, Prodr. i. 97; Colebr. i. c. p. 60, 
tab. 5. f. 3 ;—Menispermum crispum, Linn. ;—Menispermum 
tuberculatum, Lam. Dict. iv. 96 ;—Menispermum verrucosum, 
Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 808 ;—ramis glaberrimis, cortice nitido, 
laxo, brunnescente, striato-corrugato, remotiuscule verrucosis ; 
foliis interdum crebriter approximatis, longissime petiolatis, 
suborbicularibus, imo late 2-sinuato-cordatis, apice subito ac 
breviter acutis, valde membranaceis, 5—7-nerviis, sub lente 
rugoso-punctulatis, utrinque glaberrimis, glauco-pallidis, ner- 
vis subtenuibus paulo prominulis et rufulis; petiolo hmbo 
multo longiore, compresso, sulcato-striato, imo incrassato 
