52 MENISPERMACEX. [ Tinospora. 
1. T. tomentosa, Miers; Hf. Ind. Fl. i. 96.—A high ser ; 
the younger parts shortly tomentose ; bark grey, minutely gran 
tubercled ; leaves rotundate-cordate, repand or sometimes more 0 
less 3-lobed, especially beneath tomentose, 3 to 6 in. long and al- 
most as broad, on tomentose petioles nearly as long ; racemes soli- 
tary or clustered, usually simple, the flowers clustered in the axils of 
thé minute deciduous bracts; drupes 1-3, the size and shape of a 
rge pea, smooth, orange-coloured, containing a tubercled putamen. 
Hazs.—Ava. 
2. T. Malabarica, Miers; H.f. Ind. Fi. i. 96.—A scandent 
shrub, the younger parts whitish pilose ; leaves bcm Sa acu- 
minate, 3-6 in. long and almost as broad, a pilose petiole 
nearly as long, 7-nerved, above roughish, ticnetls woolly or pubes- 
cent ; racemes as long as the leaves; flowers green ; drupes coral- 
red, the size of a pea, containing a tubercled putamen, 
Has Te a 
S.25R, Miers; H.f. Ind. Fl. i. 96.—A large climber, all 
parts glabrous, the stems grey, terete, warted; leaves oval-oblong, 
acuminate, slightly cordate at base, entire or repand, 2-6 in. long 
by 1-4 broad, on a 4-2 im. long petiole, glabrous; racemes soli- 
tary or clustered above the scars of the fallen leaves, 4-8 in. long ; 
flowers by 2 or 3 in the axil of an oval fleshy bract, pedicelled, 
yellowish green ; drupes yellowish or pale orange-coloured, the size 
of an olive ; patemen tabetoted (accord, Miers). 
Has.—Pegu ; Arracan. 
4. T. cordifolia, Miers ; H.f. Ind. Fl.i.97 ; Brand. For. Fl. ae 
A large climber, all parts glabrous ; bark sparingly cor 
leaves broadly cordate, acute or shortly acuminate, 2-4 in. long 0 
broad, on petioles nearly equally long, glabrous ; racemes axillary, 
rarely terminal or arising singly from above the scars of the fallen © 
leaves, simple or branched at base; bracts subulate, the lower ones 
occasionally almost leafy ; flowers yellowish green, the males fasei- 
cled, the females usually solitary, glabrous; drupes the size of a 
pea, “glossy, red, mating a smooth keeled putamen. 
_ Has.—Not unfrequent in the forests of the Andaman Islands; Chittagong, 
va. 
5. T. nudiflora, Kz.—Sin-dong-ma-nway.—A large scandent 
_ shrub, leafless in HS, the younger parts densely and almost whitish 
tomentose, stems terete, sparingly beset with small pustules or warts, 
or corky-lenticellate ; young leaves on long ae petioles, ovate- 
oblong, rounded or slightly sinuate at base, shortly and sharply acumi- 
whitish) p ubescent ; female flowers brownish 
yellow, ‘liter. on a slender i from the axil of a small subu- 
