.Coscinium.] v. menispebmace^. (Hook. f. & Thorns.) 99 



embracing a globose intrusion of tte endocarp; albumen fleshy, ruminate 

 in the ventral face ; embryo straight, cotyledons orbicular, spreading, thin, 

 sinuate, laciniate, or fenestrate. — Disteib. Species 2 ; tropical Asiatic. 



1. C fenestratum, Colehroake in Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. 65 ; leaves 

 slightly peltate suborbicular yellow-tomentose beneath, heads umbelled, 

 cotyledons laciniate. Miers in Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 6458 ; Contrib. iii. 22, 

 t. 88 ; H.f.& T. Fl. Ind. 178. C. Wallichianum and Wightianum, Miers in 

 Tayl. Ann. Ser. 2, vii. 37. Menisp. fenestratum, Gcertn. ; DC. Prodr. i. 103 ; 

 Jiosib. Fl. Ind. iii. 809. Oocoulus Blumeanus, Wdl. Gat. 4971 {par^y). 

 Pereira medica, Lindl. Fl. Med. 370. 



Westkkjs Peniitsdla, Herb. Wight; Mnukoot^, Maingay ; Sincapoee, Wallich; 

 Ceylon, Central and Southeni provinces. (Specimens all imperfect.) 



Young shoots hoary-tomentose. Leaves 5-7 by 4-6 in., young oblong-oleltoid obr 

 scurely peltate, acuminate, glabrous above, boary and reticulate beneath ; petiole 3-5 in. 

 Heads \-\ in. diam. ; pedicels 1 in. Flowers green. Petals orbicular, acute, and 

 sepals persistent. Drupes 1-3, J in. diam., subglobose, villous. Perhaps 3 species are 

 confounded here. Wight's has smaller broader and more membranous Jeav,es, whiter 

 beneath; the Malayan are more tomeutose. 



2. C. Blumeanum, Miers Gontrih. iii. 23 ; leaves deeply peltate, thick 

 coriaceous ovate or oblong white-tomentose beneath, heads racemed. 

 H.f. & T. Fl. Ind. 179. Cocculus Blumeanus, Wall. Cat. 5971 (partly). 



Penaho, Sincapoke, and Malacca, WaUich, .&o. 



Branches woolly. Leaves 7-12 by 3-6 in., peltate obtuse or j,cuminate, dark-green 

 and shining above ; petiole 8-5 in. Macemes 3-4 in., stout, tomentose, peduncles 1 in. 



Mainga/s collection contains fruits of a Gosdnium from Malacca, of whiob he de- 

 scribes the cotyledons as fenestrate ; the carpels are li— 14 in. diam., globose, bright 

 yellow, sarcocarp very thick, endocarp woody ; seed | ia. diam., albumen so hard that 

 we have failed to remove the cotyledons so as to verify Maingay's de.scription ; it was 

 accompanied with leaves and flowers ot Mbrawea (Distrib. Hb. Maingay, 115). 

 * A fourth species in Maiogay's herbarium has leaves like C. fenestratum, but mors 

 peltate, pale brown beneath, with very appressed pubescence ; a similar plant grows in 

 Java and Sumatra. 



8. TIXiIACOBA, Colebrooke. 



A climbing shrub. Flowers in axillary panicles, dioecious or polygamous. 

 Sepals 6. 2-seriate, outer much smaller. Petals 6, minute, cuneate. Maub 

 fl. : Stamens 6, filaments subcylindric ; anthers adnate, bursting vertically. 

 Fem. fl. : Rudimentary carpels 3. Ovaries 3-12; styles short subulate. 

 Drupes obovoid, pedicelled, subcompressed, style-scar subbasal ; endocarp 

 thin, obscurely ribbed, grooved on both sides. Seed hooked, albumen oUy, 

 ruminate ; cotyledons linear, fleshy, plano-convez appressed. 



1. T. racemosa, Coleh. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. 67; leaves ovate or 

 ovate-cordate acuminate. Miers Gontrih, iii. 76, t. 104. T. fraternaria, 

 cuspidiformis and abnormalis, Miers, I.e. 77, 78. T. acuminata, Mi^rs in 

 Tayl. Ann. Ser. 2, vi. 39 ; E.f.<Ss T. PI. Ind. 187. Menisp. acuminatum and 

 radiatum, Lamk. M. polycarpum, Roodi. Fl. Ind. iii. 816. Cocculus acu- 

 minatus, DC. Prodr. i. 99 ; W. d; A. Prodr. i. 12. C. radiatus, BG. l.c.m. 

 .D. polycarpus. Wall. Gat. 4958 {exd. K. L.)—Mheede Hort. Mai. vii. t. 3. 



Throughout tropical India, from Odde and Bensal, to CouoAif, Obissa, Cezlon and 

 SiHCAPOKE. — ^DfSTBiB. Java. 



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