Limacia.] FLOllA INDICA. 187 



hard, centre softer and of hexagonal cells, becoming cubical outwards, and then ver- 

 tically elongated with thick perforated walls. Wood-bundles about forty, placed 

 towards the circumference, close-set, oval, separated by narrow, dark-red medullary 

 rays, of a little dotted pleureuchyma and some large ducts. Liber-bundles crescent- 

 shaped, almost confluent, annually increasing. Bark a very narrow, dense, cellular 

 zone. 



1. T. acuminata (Miers in Taylor's Annals, ser. 2. vii. 39); fo- 

 liis ovatis acuminatis glabris.- — T. racemosa, Colebr. in Linn. Tr. xiii. 

 53, 67. Menispermum acuminatum et M. radiatuin, Lam. Diet. iv. 

 101. M. polycarpum, Roxh. Fl. lad. iii. 816. Cocculus acuminatus, 

 BO. Syst. i. 527, Prod. i. 99 ; Bdess. Ic. Sel. i. t. 95 ; IF. et A. Prod. 

 i. 13 ; Oraham, Cat. Bombay. C. radiatus, BG. Syst. i. 537, Prod. i. 

 99. C. polycarpus, JFall. Cat. 4958 ! (excl. K, L.) C. Bantamensis, 

 Bl. Bijdr. Z%.—Rheede Mai. vii. t. 3. 



Hab. Per totam Indiam tropicam et calidam, a Zeylauia ! et Singa- 

 pur ! ad Concan ! et Orissa ! et in plauetie Gangetioa ! a Bengalia ! ad 

 Oiide \—{v. K.) 



PisTRiB. Java, Blume. 



Frnter alte scandens, cortice cinereo striatulo glabro. T?olia ovata, acuminata, 

 basi inlerdum acuta sed seepius truncata, rotundata vel leviter cordata, 3-6 poll, louga, 

 14-34 lata, petiolo \-\ poll, longo, teuuia, margiue undulata et subrepanda, utrinquc 

 glal)ra. Paniciila axillares, folia vix a:quautes vel longe superantes, interdum fere 

 pelales, incana; vel demum glabrescentcs ; rami pollicares, foeminei subsiniplices 1-flori, 

 iiuisculi apice 8-7-flori. Braclece oblonga; vel subulata;. Plores flavi, Drupai 

 rubicundic, i-poUicarcs. 



Mr. Miers Las noted that Wall. Cat. 4958 K., from Singapur, is perliaps a species 

 of Sabia. It is not in flower or fruit, and is not accurately determinable. 



7. LIMACIA, Lour. 



Limacia et Hypserpa, Miers. 



Sepala 6, biserialia, exteriora minora. Petala 6, sepalis interioribus 

 multo minora, auriculata, stamina amplectentia. Mas. Stamina 3-9 ; 

 tilaraenta cylindrica vel clavata. AnlliercB biloculares ; loculi laterales 

 vel subextrorsaj, adnatte, longitudinaliter dehiscentes. Fcem. Stamina 

 sterilia 6, clavata. Ovaria 3, gynophoro brevissimo insidentia. Styli 

 breves, compressi. Brupx obovatse vel reniformes. Putamen vix tuber- 

 culatum, lateribus convex um, intus prseter cavit'atem serainileram locu- 

 los 3 laterales vacuos continens. Semen elongatum, cavitati conforme. 

 Coiyledones semicylindriciB, radiculam cylindricam latitudine vix supe- 

 rantes.- — Frutices seandentes, petiolis simpUcibus, Horibus paniculatis. 



limacia, which is by Mr. Miers referred to the tribe Packyffoneai, we find to be 

 albuminous, and therefore more properly to belong to Cocculeee. No character 

 therefore remains to distinguish Hypserjia but the imbricate inner sepals. The se- 

 pals of Limacia veliitina and oblonya are, as Asa Gray has pointed out in the Botany 

 of Captain "Wilkes" Expedition, decidedly valvate ; but, as this depends mainly on 

 their thicker texture, wc do not attach generic importance to it. We have derived 

 our character of the fruit from two species only, L. velalina and Z. cusjtidata (Ui/p- 

 serna, Miers). In both the unt presents no lateral excavations like those of Coccalns, 

 but is' convex on both siJcs ; a transverse section, however, shows two large cavities 



