above a foot long, many-flowered ; flowers rather large ; drupes 

 glabrous. Concan; common. Syn. Menispermum cocculus, Linn. sp. 

 1468 ; M. heteroclitum, Rox. Fl Ind. iii, 817 ; Cocculus lacunosus, 

 DC. syst. 1, 519; Prod. 1, 97. ; C. suberosus, DC. sijst. 1, 619; W. 

 and A. Prod. 1,11; C. populi folius, DC. Prod. 1, 97. 



2. TINOSPORA, Miers. 



1. Malabarica, Miers in Taylor's Annals, Ser. ii vii, 38. — 

 Leaves cordate, ovate, slightly or densely pubescent beneath ; a 

 climbing shrub, with ash-coloured bark, young parts with whitish 

 hairs ; leaves 7-nerved, .3 to 6 inches long, and nearly as broad ; 

 racemes as long as the leaf; flowers green ; ripe drupes red. The 

 Concan. Menispermum malabaricum, Lam. Willd. ; Cocculus 

 Malabaricus, DC. syst. I, 5\8., Prod. 1,97; Uheed. Mai. vii, t. 19. 



2. T. CoRDiFOLiA, Miers in Taylor's Annals, Ser. 2, vii 38. — 

 A twining shrub, with scabrous corky bark, and broad cordate 

 leaves on longish petioles ; racemes axillary, solitary ; flowers 

 yellow, small ; drupe size of a small cherry, red. Concan. Syn. 

 Menispeimum malabaricum, B. Lam. Diet, iv, 96; M. cordifoliuin, 

 Willd. Roxb. Flor Ind. iii, 81 1 ; Cocculus cordifolius, DC syst. 1, 

 518. Prod. 197. Stems sold in the bazars under the name of 

 " Gulo," the Guluncha of Bengal, and is useful in fevers. 



3. COCCULUS, DC. 



1. Macrocahpiis. W. and A. Prod. 1, 13. — Shrubby, climbing ; 

 bark ash-coloured, wrinkled ; leaves rounded or reniform, cordate or 

 truncate at the base, shining, 5-nerved, quite smooth, glaucous 

 beneath ; panicles long-branched, many-flowered ; drupes obovate 

 oblong, an inch long. Jungles in the Concan. Syn. Diploclisia 

 macrocarpa, Miers in Ann. Nat. Hist., Ser. ii vii, 42. 



2. C. ViLLosus, DC. Prod. 1 , 98.— Leaves oval oblong, sub- 

 deltoid, villous ; male panicles abbreviated, female flowers I to 3 

 in the axils, small, yellow ; drupes dark-purple when ripe, of which 

 ink is made, according to Roxb., and a decoction of the roots a 

 substitute for sarsaparilla. Very common in hedges. Syn. C. 

 sepium, Coleb. in Linn. Trans, xiii, 68 ; C. hastatus, DC. Prod. 

 1, 98; Menispermum hirsatum, Linn. Roxb. Fl Ind. iii, 814 ; M. 

 Myosotoides. 



4. CISSAMPELOS, Linn. 



1 . Paeeira, Linn. Spec. PI 1473. — Chmbing ; leaves reniform or 

 rounded or broadly cordate, more or less pubescent ; male cymes 

 long-peduncled, many-flowered, hairy; female racemes with large 

 round bracts ; drupes subglobose hirsute ; flowers yellowish, very 



