Limacia] VI. MENISPERMACEJ! 27 



8. LIMACIA, Loureiro; PI. Brit. IuJ. i. 100. 



Wood}' climbers, leaves coriaceous, triplinerved or with 3 basal nerves. PI. 

 in panicles, sepals 6-10, petals 5-8, embracing tbe stamens, smaller than the 

 sepals of the inner circle. <J : Stamens 3-9, sometimes more, anthers adnate, 

 bursting vertically. $ : Staminodes 6, ovaries 3. Drupes obovoid or reniform, 

 style scar near the base, seed long cylindrical, curved round the intruded 

 endocarp. Species 8-10, Eastern tropical Asia, Solomon Islands, North 

 Australia. 



1. L. cuspidata, Hoik. fil. & Thorns.; Trimen Handb. Ceylon i.42. 

 Evergreen, young shoots pubescent, leaves 2-3 in. long, longer on vigorous 

 shoots, stamens 8-12. Drupes nearly globose, J-i in. long, dull reddish purple. 



Assam, Silhet, Tenasserim, Ceylon, Cochinehina, China. Fl. E. S. 2. L. triandra, 

 Miers. Lower Burma, Malay Peninsula. Leaves triplinerved, 2-4 in. long, sepals 9, 

 thick, stamens 3. 3. L velutina, Miers. Mergui. Malay Peninsula. Branches velvety, 

 leaves tomentose, 2-6 in., basal and secondary nerves prominent beneath. 



Pa;li7jon2 ovata, Miers; PL Brit. Ind. i. 105. — Syn. P. oil or iter a. Miers; Kurz, F. Fl. 

 i. 56 ; < tssampelos Plukenetii, DC. ; Wight !<•. t. s24, 825. Vern. X</n pun. Burm., Coro- 

 mandel coast (Sriharikota), but also inland: common in the swamp forests of the 

 plains of Lower Burma, also on limestone rocks. A large evergreen spreading shrub 

 with lung drooping and climbing branches, branchlets and petioles hairy, leaves ovate. 

 coriaceous, glabrous, shining, basal nerves 3-5, H. white, with a strong honey scent, 

 pedicellate, generally ponicled in the axils of Linear hairy bracts, in slender axillary 

 racemes, sepals n, tbe 3 outer smaller, petals 6, small, embracing the filaments. Ovaries 

 8; ripe carpels reniform, glabrous, \ in. long, style scar basal. 2. P. dasycarpa, Kurz. 

 F. Fl. i. 56. Tenasserim, the drupes densely tomentose, is closely allied. 



Pyonarrhena pleniflora, Miers; Fl. Brit. Ind. i. 106. Assam. Silhet, is a large, erect 



or scrambling shrub, si ts often tomentose. branchlets ribbed, leaves oblong-lanceolate, 



acuminate, thinly coria his, secondary nerves 6-8 pair, impressed above, very promi- 

 nent beneath, joined at a distance from the edge by conspicuous intramarginal veins, 

 tl. in axillary capitate clusters. Sepals 6, the inner larger, petals 6, stamens !i, filaments 

 short. Drupe J in. long, style scar lateral. 



Another climber with exolbuminous seeds is Haemitosarpus Thomsoni, Miers; Fl. 

 Brit. Ind. i. 106. Sikkim. Himalaya and Khasi hills. Perfectly glabrous, leaves rigidly 

 coriaceous, elliptic lance,, late, the 3 basal nerves running along the edge nearly to the 

 ai»'x; secondary nerves conspicuous, almost at right angles to midrib. 



Antitixis calooarpa, Kurz. F. Fl. i. 57, Chittagong, Andamans and Nicobars, is a large 

 evergreen woody dieeeious climber, leaves oblong-lanceolate, panninsrved, secondary 

 nerves not much more conspicuous than the finely reticulate veins, pedicels numerous, 

 paniculate, filiform, J-j in. long. Sepals 8, in desussate pairs, the inner larger, petals 

 2 small, stamens 8. Drupes 1-3, glabrous, shining, scarlet, j) in. long, style scar 

 ventral, endocarp brittle, seed nearly globular, concave ventrally, albumen none, 

 cotyledons fleshy, half round, incurved. 



Obdeb VI. BERBERIDACE/E. Gen. PI. i. 40. 



II, rln riilnr. 



(Lardizabcdaetir and llrrht ■riilamr, F.ugler tind Prantl, iii. 2, pp. HT, 70.) 



Glabrous shrubs, sometimes climbing. Leaves alternate, simple or com- 

 pound. Sepals an 1 petals free, usually trimerous. Stamina I 3, opposite to 

 petals, anthers actuate. Carpals 1-3, ovules few or numerous. Saeds with 

 copious albumen. 



A. Lardizabaleaa. Flowers unisexual or polj g imous, anthers opening by slits, carpels 8 



Climbers, leaves 8-9 foliolate, stamans free . . . 1. lloi.no:- u \. 

 Climbers, leaves ;; foliolate, stamens monadelphous, . Pahvati* p, 28). 

 Krect shrubs, leaves pinnate . . . ... . Dboaisnea (p. 28). 



B. Berbereae. Krect shrubs or herbs, fl. bisexual, ant hers opening by valves, carpel 1. 



Shrubs, generally spiny, fl. yellow, ovules few basal . 2. Bbbdkbis. 



