30% 
fascicled in the axils. of the fallen leavées.: flowers subsessile, green, 
yellow-tomentose: petals round, acute, patent: drupes 1-3, sure 
rounded by the calyx and persistent petals, subglobose, villous. 
. Courtallum hills, flowering in N ovember. 
GENUS V. PARABENA. 
Dicecia Hexandria. Sex: Syst: 
Gen. Car. Sepals 6, oblong, nearly equal: petals 6, shorter 
than the sepals, cuneately 3-lobed or obovate. Maze. Stamens 
monadelphous: anthers 6, combined into a subglobose head, trans« 
versely dehiscing. Fem. Stamens sterile, 6: ovaries 3: styles re- 
curved: drupes oval: putamen beaked above, rough at the back 
with tubercles, deeply excavated in front: seed peltate, involute 
round the internal process of the putamen :, albumen copious, fleshy : 
embryo curved, radical, superior, long: cotyledons ovate, divaricate. 
(1) P. sacirtara. (Miers. ) 
Tdent. Miers,.in Tayl. Ann. Ser. II. VII. p- 39.—Hook. & 
Thoms. Flor. Ind. I. p. 181. 
Syn. P. oleracea, heterophylla e¢ ferruginea, Miers. 1. c.—Cis« 
sampelos sagittata, Ham. in Wall. Cat.—C. oleracea, Wall, 
Spec. Cuar. Climbing shrub: leaves. at first sharply sinuately. 
toothed, afterwards quite.entire, deeply cordate or sagittate, 5—7-« 
nerved at the base, glabrous or slightly pubescent on both sides of 
loosely and softly tomentose below: cymes axillary, usually twin, 
equalling or shorter than the petioles, many times dichotomous, 
many-flowered, with filiform bracts at the ramifications: flowers 
minute, pale, pubescent: petals obovate-cuneate, 3-lobed above, 
middle lobe emarginate, lateral ones inflexed, sometimes scarcely 
lobed : -drupes: pulpy, becoming green, filled with viscid juice, oval, 
smooth. 
Assam. Khasia, Chittagong. Flowering in June and July. 
GENUS VI.. TINOSPORA. 
Diececia Mexandria. Sex Syst: 
' ‘Periv. From Tino, to extend, and Spora, a seed, alluding to the 
elongated seeds. 
~ Gey. Cuar. Climbing shrubs, with axillary or terminal ra- 
cemes: sepals 6, in two rows, the inner ones larger: petals 6, 
‘smaller than the inner sepals. Mate. Stamens 6: filaments thick; 
somewhat club-shaped at the apex : anthers.2-celled; cells obliquely 
