toso. Hook. fil. & Thorns PI. Irul. 179; Hook. fil. Fl. B. Ind. i, 99: Miq. 
FI. Ind. Bat. i. Pfc. 1, 77 : Coccnlus Blumeanus, Wall. Cat. 5971 partly. 
Climbing like the last on high trees. I havo not seen specimens of 
the ripe drupe. 
Limacia, Loureiro. 
Climbing shrubs or small trees : flowers in racemes or panicles. 
Sepals 9, toraentose, in three series ; the two outer smaller, ovate ; tbe 
inner large, rotund, concave, valvate. Petals 3 or 6, small, (as large as 
the outer 3 sepals), obovate, clawed, glabrous, embracing the stamens. 
Slamejis 3 or 6, free, sub-equal ; filaments short, erect, thickened up- 
wards; anthers coimivent, cordate, 2-lobed. Fan. jioivrr : srjx.tl* and p'-tals 
as in male ; stamino'hs 6, clavate. Ovaries 3, hirsute. Style short. 
Drupe* 3, usually 1 by abortion, obovoid or reniform, fleshy; style-scar 
subbasal; endocarp 3-cclIod, the 2 lateral cells empty. Seed elongate, 
embracing the intruded endocarp ; embryo slender, the cotyledons 
linear, plano-convex. Distrib. Tropical Asia. 
1. L. TUlANDtsA, Jliers Cent rib. iii, lit. Branches closely striate, 
puberulous when young, glabrous when adult. Leaves membranous, 
ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 3-nerved above the rounded base, length 
of blade 3 to 5 in., breadth 1*5 to 2 in., petiole about '5 in. Racemes 
supra-axillary, shorter than the leaves, usually solitary, puberulous ; 
bracts and and flowers minute. Stametis 3, free, the filaments cuneate ; 
anthers large, the cells divergent. Hook. fil. Fl. B. Ind. i. 100 ; Miq. 
Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 1, 80. Kurz For. Plor. Burm. i, 55 ; H. f. & T. PI. 
Ind. 188. L. Amherstiana and Wallickiana, Miors La. 112, 113, Mctiup. 
triandrian, Roxb. PI. Ind. iii. 816, Qocculus triandrus, Colebrooke in 
Trans. Linn. tfoc. xii. 64; Wall. Cat. 4962, 4959 C. 4958 L. 
Peiiang. Distrib. Burm ah. 
2. L. oblonga, Miers Contrib, iii. 109. Scandent or shrubby; 
branches minutely striate, rusty-puberulous when young. Leaves 
membranous, glabrous, oblong-lanceolate or broadly elliptic, acute or 
mucronate; the base rounded, 3-nerved j reticulations few, bold, pubescent 
like the nerves aud petiole ; length of blade 4 to 7 in., breadth 2*25 to 3*5 
iu., petiole *75 to I "25 in, Male panicles slender, extra-axillary, 
usually in pairp, much longer than the leaves, branched, rusty-pubescent. 
Stamens G, filaments thickened upwards but not cuneate. Female in- 
florescence much Bhorter. Drupe transversely reniform, compressed, 
glabrous, pulpy, rugose when dry, *75 iu. long, stylar scar on a sub-basal 
projecting horn. Hook. fil. & Th. PI. Ind. 189 ; Hook. fil. Fl. B. Ind. i. 
100 ; Miq. PL Ind. Bat. i. Pt. i, 80. Oocculus obtongus, Wall. Cat. 
Common in all the Sraits Settlements. 
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