Limaeia.] v. menispermace^. (Hook. f. & Thorns.) 101 



From Meroui to Malacca, Penano and Sincapoee, &o. 



Pubescence yellowish. Leaves 2-6 by f-4 in., variable, obtuse acute or ronniled, 

 base rounded or acute, triple-nerTed, usually glabrous above ; petiole 4-1 J in. Panicles 

 axillary or supra-axillary, solitary few or many, tomentose, flowers villous. Inner sepah 

 orbicular, valvate. Drupes 1 in. long, obovoid, compressed, glabrous. 



Aristega Imvifolia, Miers Contrib. iii. 376, t. 151, a plant collected by Heifer in the 

 Andamans, or in Moulmein, and of which male flowers alone are known, is probably a 

 3-petalous Limaeia. 



10. COCCUZiUS, DC. 



Climbing or sarmentose shrabs, rarely suberect. Petiole not dilated at 

 tlie base. Mowers panided. Sepals 6, 2-seriate, outer smaller, Petals 6, 

 smaller, usually auricled. Male fl. : Stamens embraced by the petals, 

 anthers subglobose, cells bursting transversely. Ebm. fl. : Staminodes 6 

 or 0. Ovaries 3-6 ; styles usually cylindric. Drupes laterally compressed ; 

 endocarp horseshoe-shaped, dorsally keeled and tubercled, sides excavate. 

 Seed curved, albumen fleshy ; embryo annular, cotyledons linear, flat, ap- 

 pressed.^DiSTKiB. All warm climates. 



1. C. macrocarpus, W. dh A. Prodr. 13; leaves suborbicular glabrous 

 long-petioled, pamcles 6-12 in., drupes obovoid-oblong. H.f. & T. Fl. Ind. 

 191; Wight III. i. t. 7. Diploclisia macrocarpa, lepida, inclyta, and pic- 

 tinervis, Miers Contrib. iii. 280-284, t. 127. . Quinio cocculoides, ScUecht. in 

 lAnnma, xxvL 732. 



From the Concan southwards, and in Ceylon. — ^Distkib. China. 



Branehlets dark grey, striate. Leaves 2-3 in., rather broader than long, 5-nerved, 

 obtuse retuse or rarely acute, subrepand, glaucous ,J)eneath, base truncate or cordate ; 

 petiole 2-4 in. Panicles chiefly in the old branches ; flowers corymbose or fascicled, 

 or axillary. Sepals membranous, and 3-lobed petals streaked with purple. Drupe 

 1 in., endocarp thin, woody. 



2. C. laurifolius, DO. Prodr. i. 100 ; a tree, leaves lanceolate short- 

 petioled shining, panicles axillary shorter than the leaves. Deless. Ic. Set. 

 i. t. 97; Wall. Cat. 4965; H.f. & T. Fl. Ind. 191. Menisp;. laurifolium, 

 Kbxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 815. Holopeira laurifolia, australis, and fusiformis, Miers 

 Contrib. iii. 276. 



Sdbtkopical Himalata, alt. 2500 ft., from Nipal to Jamu, Wallich, &o. — Distkib. 

 Japan, Java (cult. ?) . 



Trunk short ; branches pendulous, angled, striate, smooth, branehlets bearded at the 

 base. Leaves 3-6 by I-I4 in., coriaceous, acute or acuminate, 3-nerved ; petiole 

 i-Jin. Panides 1-2 in., solitary or 2-superposed, corymbose, male largest; bracts and 

 flowers minute. Sepals acute. Petals 2-lobed. Styles reflexed. Drvpes minute,^ 

 globose ; endocarp fragile, rugose. 



3. C. villosus, DC. Prodr. i. 98 ; branehlets Villous, leaves ovate-oblong 

 subdeltoid villous, male fl. in short panicles, fem. 1-3 axillary rarely 

 racemed. Wall. Cat. 4957 ; W. & A. Prodr. 13 •,H.f.& T. Fl. Jwd 193. 

 C. sepium, Coleh. m Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. 58. C. hastatus and aristo- 

 lochise, DC. I.e. 98. Menisp. villosum, Lamh. {not Roxb.). M. hirsutum, 

 Linn. ; Jioxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 814. M. myosotoides, Linn. Holopeira villosa, 

 laeviuscula, and auriculata, Miers Contrib. iii. 271-273, t. 126. 



Throughout tropical and subtropical India, from the base of the HiMALArA to 

 Malaeae and Pegu (absent in the Eastern Peninsula and Ceylon).— Distbib. Trop. 

 Africa. 



Leaves 2-3 by lJ-2 in., sometimes sublanceolate, retuse or obtuse and muoronate, 

 sometimes 8-lobed, base suboordate or truncate, young villous on both surfaces; pe- 



