30", 
Spec. Cutan. Climbing shrub: Jeaves ovate, acuminated, some- 
times acute’ but more often truncated at the base, rounded or ‘lightly 
cordate, undulating at ‘the margin, glabrous. on both sides: panicles .' 
axillary, scarcely equalling or much longer than the leaves, hoary , 
er at length glabrescent: females. somewhat simple, 1-flowered ;- 
males 3-7-flowered at the apex: bracts oblong or-subulate : flowers 
yellow: drupes reddish. 
Throughout India. 
GENUS: VIII. LEUMACTA. 
Diccia.Hexandria. Sez: Syst: 
Deriv. Erom Limax, a snail-shell, alluding to the form of the 
nut. : 
_, Gen. Cuar. Sepals 6,. in two-rows, outer ones smaller: petals - 
6, much less then the inner sepals, auricled, embracing the stamens. 
Mate. Stamens 3-9, with: cylindric or club-shaped filaments: an- 
thers 2-celled: cells adnate, dehiscing lengthwise. Fim. Stamens 
6, sterile, club-shaped: ovaries 3: styles short, compressed : drupes 
obovate or'reniform: seed elongated ;- putamen convex at the sides, 
containing within. besides. a seed-bearing cavity,.2 lateral empty. 
cells ;: eotyledons-semi-cylindric. . 
(1) L. cusptpata. (H. F.& T.) 
Ident. Hook. & Thoms. Flor. Ind. I. p. 189. 
Syn. Cocculus cuspidatus, Wall.—Hypserpa cuspidata, Miers. 
in Tayl. Ann Ser. Il. VII. p. 40. 
Srec. Cuan. Climbing shrub: leaves ovate-lanceolate, aeumi- 
nated, rounded. at the base, younger ones pubescent beneath : pe- 
tioles thickened above, pubescent, afterwards glabrous: panicles 
pubescent, axillary or supra-axillary, solitary or twin, inserted.on a 
tomentose tubercle ;. males twice as long as the petioles, sparingly 
branched, females simple, scarcely equalling the petiole, few-flower- 
ed: drupes. subglobose. 
Silhet. -Khasia. 
GENUS IX. PERICAMPYLUS. 
Diceeia Hexandria. Sex :. Syst: 
Deriv. From Peri, around, and Kampulos, twisted. 
Gen. Car. Sepals 6, imbricated.in two rows ; outer ones less : 
petals 6. Mate. Stamens 6: anthers adnate, oval, ool cells 
laterally dehiscing. Fem. Stamens sterile, 6: ovaries 3: style 
bipartite to the base, the segnients reflexed; drupes subglobese : 
