Pachygone.] floea indiua. 203 



apice incurva ; anihera subglobosse, didymse, biloculares. Ovaria ru- 

 dimentaria 3, minutissima. F(em. Stamina 6, ananthera, breviter cla- 

 vata. Ovaria 3. Styli crassi, horizontales. Drupa reniformes, late- 

 ribus leviter excavates. Semen hippocrepiforme, radicnia brevissima, 

 stylo subbasilari approximata, cotyledonibus semicylindricis vel sub- 

 clavatis fere cornels. — Prutices soandentes, iioribus axillaribusracemosis. 



A piece of the stem of Taehygone, one-fourth of an inch in diameter, is firm and 

 woody, faintly sulcate externally. FUh occupying the greater part of the stem, 

 wholly composed of vertically elongated, parallel woody cells, with square superim- 

 posed ends, the inner shortest. Medullary rays of mural cells. Wood-wedges about 

 thirty, placed near the circumference, of dotted pleurenchyma and few large vessels. 

 Liber-lundhs closely applied to wood, semilunar, rather broad. Bark a narrow 

 cellular zone of long cells, with very thick transparent walls. 



1. P. ovata (Miers, mss.) ; foliis ovato-oblongis subtrapezoideis, 

 racemis masculis folia superantibus. — Cissampelos ovata, Pair.; DC. 

 Syst. i. 537, Prod. i. 102. Cocculus leptostachyus et brachystachyus, 

 DG. Syst. i. 528, Prod. i. 99 ; Decaisne, Timor 96. C. Plukenetii, DO. 

 Syst. i. 520, Prod. i. 97 ; W. et A.! Prod. i. 14 ; Wight, Ic. t. 824, 

 825. Cocculus Wightianus, Wall. Cat. 4959 A! 



Hab. In Zeylania, Thwaites ! et in Carnaticae arenosia prsesertim 

 prope mare, Wight I — (». ».) 



DiSTKiB. Timor. 



Frutex alte scandens, ramosissimus. Bamuli eleganter striatuli, tomento fiave- 

 scente incani, demum glahrescentes. Folia basi cuueata vel rotundata, apice obtusa 

 vel retusa cum mucrone, 3-5-nervia, erasse coriacea, utrinque glabra, 1^-2 poll, 

 longa, f-li lata, petiolo ^— |-pollicari incaoo-pubescente, apice incrassato et sub- 

 articulato ; petioli et racemi basi fascicule pilorum circumdati. Sacemi graciles, pu- 

 bcseentes vel tomentosi, masculi folia superantes, foeminei folia vix ajquautes vel 

 breviores. Pedicelli flores vix superantes. Bracteee subulatse. Flares minuti, 

 masculi in axillis bractearum fasciculati, fceminei solitarii. Sepala iuteriora ovalia 

 vel obovata, membrauacea. Fetala acute vel obtuse bidentata. Drupes subcom- 

 pressse, pisi magnitudine, la^viusculte. Futamen rugulosum. 



Decaisne has pointed out the probable identity of C brachystachyus and C. lep- 

 tostachyus with one another, and with C. Plukenetii ; and as his description, as well 

 as a specimen of C. brachystachyus from Timor in Mr. Bentham's Herbarium, agrees 

 precisely with the Ceylon plant, which varies with three or five nerves, we have not 

 hesitated to unite them all. It is curious to remark the recurrence of this plant, 

 which is a native of the drier parts of the Carnatic and Ceylon, in Timor, which has 

 a drier climate than Sumatra and Java. 



14. FIBRAUREA, Lour. 



Sepala 6, biserialiter imbricata, ovalia vel obovata. Petala 0. Mas. 

 Stamina 6 ; filamenta crassa, carnosa, angulata, infra antheram linea 

 elevata obliqua cincta, et antice et postice subcristata; anthera late 

 ovales, biloculares, lateraliter dehiscentes. Fcem. Ovaria 3-6. Drupa 

 totidem ovoidese, Iseves. — Frutices scandentes, foliis erasse coriaceis, pe- 

 tiolis iasi et apice articulatis et incrassatis, paniculis axillaribus ramc- 

 sissimis. 



In Mr. Miers' paper this genus is placed among Heteroclitiea, hut he had not 

 seen perfect seeds. We are induced to transfer it to the exalbuminous tribe, from 



