Coceulus. MENISPERMACES. 55 
° 
2. L. triandra, Miers;. H.f. Ind. Fl. i. 100.—A climber 
twiner, the younger branchlets puberulous ; leaves cblong-laneelate, 
2-4 in. long, rounded at base, on a puberulous petiole } in. long, 
acute or acuminate with a mucro, glabrous, much netveined ; pan- 
icles raceme-like, puberulous, shorter than the leaf, the ramifica- 
tions short, 3-5-flowered ; flowers minute, yellowish ; ‘petals narrow- 
obovate, entire ; stamens 3; filaments fleshy, cuneate-oblong. 
Has.—Prome; Tenasserim. 
3. L. velutina, Miers; H.f. Ind. Fl. i. 100.—A woody climber, 
the younger parts yellowish or tawny tomentose; leaves from 
oblong and oval-oblong to lanceolate, variable, — or acute and 
sovatepatuate, sgtelindt or truncate ; Pint ire obovate, lin. lens 
glabro 
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COCCULUS, DC. 
Sepals 6, the inner ones larger. Petals 6, shorter than the 
sepals, entire or 2-cleft. Males: stamens 6, free; the —- 
didymous or 4-lobed, or almost 4-celled. Females: staminodes 6 
none ; carpels 3, the style linear, recurved or reflexed. Drupe ced 
vate or globular, laterally compressed, the style-scar almost basal. 
Putamen tubercled on the back, horse-shoe-shaped, often perforated 
at base. Seed curved. Albumen fleshy. Cotyledons linear, appress- 
ed.—Usually climbing shrubs or herbs, rarely erect or nearly so, 
ge ua. flowers. 
C. glaucescens, Bl. (C. macrocarpus, WA.; H.f. Ind. Fi. i. 
101) oA large woody climber, all parts glabrous, the stems 1-14 
in. thick; bark thin, smooth, silvery grey; leaves reniform or 
otundate, on a slender glabrous radi 3-2 in. gn truncate or 
caiiel (while young somewhat peltate) at the 5-nerved base, 
notched or blunt with a mucro, somewhat repand, quite glabrous, 
beneath glaucescent, c. 4 m. ers or broader ; icles 
usually from the older branches, rarely , not seldom 1 ft. 
long, many-flowered ; petals 3-lobed, embracing the stamens ; drupes 
obversely ovoid-oblong, 1 in. long ; the ee thin, woody, ee = 2 
ly furrowed. 
