30° 
(6).M, vexurina. (H. ¥F.% T.) 
Ident. Hook. & Thoms. Flor. Ind, I. p. 151. 
Syn. Uvaria velutina, Dun. Anon. 91.—Dec. prod. I. p. 88.—+ 
. villosa, Roxb. flor. Ind. I. p. 664.—Guatteria velutina,, Adph. 
‘Dec. mem. 42. , - 
Spec. Cuar. Tree, with densely tomentose branches : leaves 
-small, ovate or oblong, acuminated, cordate at the base, densely vel- 
vety beneath: peduncles branched : pedicels 3-6, slender, eiongated, 
densely tomentose, without bracts: sepals tomentose: outer petals 
resembling the sepals, inner ones broad-ovate, tomentose without, 
dark-brown and somewhat glabrous within: ovaries velvety: car- 
pels pubescent, short-pedicelled, baceate, black: seeds 1-2. 
Western Bengal and Behar, towards the base of the mountains, 
flowering in March and April. 
ORDER V. MENISPERMACEZ. 
Climbing shrubs, with alternate entire leaves: flowers dice+ 
‘Gidus, very small. Mars. Sepals and petals in several rows, 
each being composed of 3 or 4 parts, hypogynous, deciduous: 
stamens monadelphous, occasionally distinct, sometimes opposite 
the petals, and equal to them in numbér, or 3-4 as many: an- 
thers adnate. Formate. ‘Sepals and petals as in the male, or 
merely one sepal and one petal on the same side of the carpels: 
¢arpels solitary or in whorls: styles simple or 3-cleft: ovule 
solitary : ‘drupe baccate, 1-seeded, oblique: embryo curved: 
albumen fleshy. 
GENUS L ANAMIRTA. 
Diceia Monadelphia. Sex: Syst: 
Deriv. Meaning unknown. 
Gen. Cuar. Twining shrubs: calyx of 6 sepals in two rows, 
bibracteolate : corolla wanting. Mate. Stamens united into a 
column, dilated at the apex: anthers numerous, covering. the apex 
of the column. Femaus. Flowers unknown: drupes 1-8, 1-celled,. 
1-seeded. — 
(1) A. coccutus. (W.'§ A.) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p..446, 
Syn. Cocculus suberosus, W. & A. prod. I. p. Lien, prod. 
I, p. 97.—C. orbiculatus, Dec. prod. I. p. 98.—C. lacunosus, Dec, 
