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ami hairy : I he inner 0 to 8 much larger; all imbricate, glabrous. Petals 
4 to 0, smaller than the inner sepals, oblong, incurved at tho apex, rather 
fleshy. Stamens 6 to 10, free, in two series; filaments compressed, thicken- 
ed upwards: anthers ovate, 2-ceIled. Female flower (flde Miers) Sepah 
8, oblong, all imbricate. Petals 5 or 6, oblong, concave, Staminodes 6, 
clavate. Ovaries 6, rarely 3. Style very short. Drupes 2-3, trans- 
versely ovate, fleshy ; endocarp bony, sub-globose, slightly compressed, 
wirh radiating grooves, and with a single lunate cell: embryo terete, 
slender ; radicle as long as tho cotyledons. 
1. H. triflORA, Miers Coutrib. iii, 102. Branches striate, tho 
youngest pubescent. Leaves small, sub-coriaceous, shining, glabrous, ob- 
long- lanceolate, tapering gradually to the rather blunt minutely mu- 
cronate apex ; tho base rounded, 3-nerved ; reticulations fine, but rather 
obscure, as are the nerves ; length of blade 1*5 to 3 5 in., breadth '5 to 
T25 in., petiole "3 to '5 in. Cymes about 3-flowered, little longer than the 
petioles, usually solitary, axillary and supra-axillary, the female shorter. 
Malacca ; Griffith, Maingay (Kew Distrib., 123) : Perak; Scortochini, 
King's Collector. Distrib. Sumatra. 
The Perak specimens agree with the types of Miquel's Limacia mi- 
cropKytto from Sumatra in Herb. Calcutta; and they do not agree in 
externals with tho Indian L. cuspidata. Ripe fruit of this is unknowi . 
But the flowers are so different from those of Limacia that 1 think it 
ought not to be included in that genus, and I further venture to think 
that Miers 's genns Hypserpa has a sufficiently sure basis on tho struc- 
ture of the flowers alone. 
10. Coccul-js, DC. 
Climbing or sarmentose shrubs, rarely suberect. Petiole not dilated 
at tho base. Flowers in panicles. Sepals 6, 2-seriate, outer smaller. 
Petals 0, smaller, usually aurieled. Male flower ; stamens embraced by the 
petals; anthers sub-globose, cells bursting transversely. Female flower : 
stamitiodes 6 or 0. Ovaries 3 to 6 : styles usually eylindric. Drupes 
laterally compressed ; endocarp horse-shoe-shaped, dorsal ly keeled and 
tubercled, sides excavate. Seed curved, albumen fleshy ; embryo 
annular ; cotyledons linear, flat, appressed. — Distrib. AU warm climates. 
1. C. Kunstleri, King, n. sp. Glabrous; the branches striate, pale. 
Leaves membranous, with long petioles, peltate, rotund, acute ; nerves 9, 
radiating from tho potiolar insertion, thin but prominent on the pale 
under surface ; length of blade 3*25 to 4 in., breadth about 25 in. or less ; 
petiole slender, tei*ete, about 3 in. long. Panicles in fascicles of 2 to 4 
from flat warty tubercles on the stem, narrow, tho lateral branches only 
about '5 in. long, few-flowered. Sepals imbricate, glabrous. Petals 6, 
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