40 PHANEROGAMIA. 



what narrowed and obtuse at the base, where they are 3-5-nerved, 

 from one to 3 inches long, entire, strigose-pubescent when young, 

 soon glabrous, or nearly so, except on the veins. Petioles slender, 

 hairy. Peduncles shorter than the petioles; the fertile few-flowered ; the 

 sterile few- or many-flowered. Sterile flowers scarcely as large as those 

 of Cocculus Carolinus, and of the same structure, except that the petals 

 are longer than the stamens and sharply two-cleft at the summit ; the 

 lobes subulate. Fruit blue, much like that of Cocculus Carolinus; the 

 linear cotyledons perhaps a little broader. 



It is questionable whether the two-cleft petals sufficiently distin- 

 guish this genus from Cocculus, in which they are usually emarginate. 

 But, according to Mr. Miers, it includes a very distinct group of 

 plants, mostly natives of India. 



4. LIMACIA, Lour., Miers. 



1. LlMAClA VELUTINA. 



L. pube fulvo-aurea undique velutina; foliis ovali-oblongis mucronato 

 acuminatis basi rotundata trinerviis supra nunc glabratis; pedunculis 

 fl. ster. supra-axillaribus fascicidatis petiolo sidxequilongis apice con- 

 fertim %-§-floris. 



Cocculus velutinus, Wall. Cat. no. 4970, a. 



Hab. Singapore. 



The specimen consists of a sarmentose branch of the sterile plant, 

 clothed all over with a shining and soft, golden-coloured, velvety pubes- 

 cence. Leaves 3 to 5 inches long and 2 or more in width, oval or 

 oblong, the apex abruptly contracted into a narrow acuminate point, 

 which is prolonged into a conspicuous mucronation, coriaceous and 

 the upper surface becoming glabrous with age, three-nerved at the 

 rounded base, the prominent midrib sending off 3 or 4 strong pri- 

 mary veins on each side. Peduncles 3 to 5 in a fascicle a little 

 above the axil, an inch or less in length, bearing from 3 to 5 subses- 

 sile flowers in a close cluster. Sepals velvety-hirsute, subtended by 

 2 small bractlets ; the three exterior ovate, about half the length of 



