TUiaeora] 



V. MEXISPERMACE.E 



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3,000 ft., Khasi hills, Chittagong, Burma. 

 Leaves cordate or sagittate, often simi- 

 an- toothed, fl. in pedunculate dichoto- 

 mous cymes, sepals 6, drupes ovoid tuber- 

 culate J in. long. 



5. ANAMIRTA, Colebrooke; 



Fl. Brit. Iud. i. 98. 



Species 2 or perhaps more, India, 

 Malay Archipelago. 



A. paniculata, Colebr. : Trimeii 

 Handb. Ceylon, i. 40.— Syn. .1. Coc- 

 culus, Wight et Am. Vera. Kak- 

 mari, Hind. 



A powerful glabrous climber, 

 stems woody, 4 iu. diam., twisting 

 round supports and sending out 

 numerous rootlets, bark thick, 

 spongy, deeply cracked. Leaves 

 thinly coriaceous, cordate or broadly 

 ovate, blade 4-8, petiole 2-6 in. long, 

 basal nerves 3-5. Fl. green, scented, 

 in L>ng pendulous panicles, sepals f>, 

 petals 0. (J : Numerous 2-celled an- 

 thers, round the top of a short thick 

 central column. ? : 4-5 carpels, 

 style lateral. Drupes usually 2, 

 black, ' in. diam., on short thick 

 stalks, in ample panicles. 



Fig. 9.- 



-Anamirta paniculata, Colebr. 

 Leaf, fruit. i. 



Fio, 1". Tiliacora racemosa, Colebr. 

 Seel ion of carpel \. 



Assam, Khasi hills, both Peninsulas. Cev- 

 lon. Fl. February in Burma, May, June in 

 Ceylon. Also Malay Archipelago. The dry 

 fruit (Cocculua indicus) an article of trade. 

 Seeds extremely bitter, used to adulterate 

 beer and in India to intoxicate fish. Con- 

 tain Picrotoxin, a poisonous substani e. 



Coscinium fenestratum, ( '• 'lebrooke. Ceylon. 

 probably a Is. > in the Peninsula. A woody 

 climber, young shoots and underside of 

 leaves yellow-tomentose, leaves broadly 

 ovate or cordate, in young plants i 

 blade 1-8, petals :*— i in., tl. dioecious, in 

 .leu-,- ! ends : sepals >>. pel 



stamens 6, the :i inner cohering half way 

 up. Drupes 1-8, \ in. diam. Cotyledons 

 orbicular, thin, laciniate. 



6. TILIACORA, Colebrooke ; 

 Fl. Brit. Ind. i. 99. 



T. racemosa, Colebr. (the only 

 species . Vera. Kancant, < ludh, Tflia- 

 Jcoru, Beng. 



A large evergreen climber, perfectly 

 glabrous, leaves ovate, blade ■"• 5 in.. 

 petiole 1 in. long, 3 basal nerves. 



