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7. Cobcintum, Colebrooke. 
Climbing shrubs. Flowers in dense globose heads. Sepals 6 t with a 
bract, orbicular. Petals 3, targe, spreading, elliptic. Male flower : sta- 
mens 6, filaments cylindric, 3 inner connato to the middle ; anthers ad- 
nate, outer 1- inner 2-celled, bursting vertically. Fern, flower; stamino<les 
G, Ovaries 3-(J, subglobose ; styles subulate, reflexed. Drupes globose ; 
endocarp bony. Seed globose, embracing a globose intrusion of the 
endocarp; albumen fleshy, ruminate in the ventral face; embryo 
straight, cotyledons orbicular, spreading, thin, sinuate, laciniate, or 
fenestrate. — Distrib. Species 2 ; tropical Asiatic. 
1. C. FENESTRATUM, Colebrooke in Trans. Linn. Soo. xiii, 65. Young 
shoots faintly striate, shortly tomentose, often ferruginous. Leaves co- 
riaceous, very slightly peltate, rotund-ovate, acute or shortly acuminate, 
the base truncate and sometimes sub-sinuate, shining above, yellow-to- 
rn entose beneath, except the 7 stout glabrous nerves ; reticulations pro- 
minent ; length of blade 5 to 7 in., breadth 4 to 0 in.; petiole 2 to 3 in., 
swollen and bent at base. Flotvers in small pedunculate heads, in extra- 
axillary racemes shorter than the leaves. Petals orbicular and, like the 
sepals, persistent. Pipe drupes on stout pedicels with capitate apices, 
globose, tomentose, *75 in. in diam. ; cotyledons laciniate. Miers in Hook. 
Bot. Mag. t. 6458 ; Contrib. iii. 22, t. 88 ; H. f. & T. Fl. Ind. 178. 
Hook. fil. Fl. Hi-it. Ind. i. 99. C. Maingoyi, Pierre Fl. Coch. Chine. 0. 
Wallichianwn and Wight iaunm, Miers iu Tayl. Ann. Ser. 2, vii. 37, 
Contrib. iii. 23. Mcnisp. fenestratum, Gccrtn. ; DC. Prod. i. 103 ; Itoxb. 
Fl. Ind. iii. 809. Cocculus Blumeanns, Wall. Cat. 4971, partly : Percira 
medica, Liudl. Fl. Med. 307. 
Straits Settlements, at low elevations, not so common as the next. 
Distrib. Ceylon, and perhaps some of the Malayan Islands. 
The Ceylon specimens have larger leaves and a more condensed 
inflorescence than the Malayan; but the flowers are alike. Pierre's 
species 0. Maiwjayi is founded on Maingay's Malucea specimens (Kew. 
Distrib. 117) but I canuot see that they differ specifically from his No. 
118, or from Wallich's. 
2. C. Blumeanum, Miers Contrib. iii, 23. Young shoots sub-striate, 
tawny- tomentose. Leaves coriaceous, peltate, oblong, elliptic*, rarely 
ovate-rotund, obtuse or acute, the base rounded or truncate, sometimes 
sub-sinuate, shining above, white-tome ntoso beneath, the 7 nerves bold 
and prominent on lower surface as arc the reticulations, length of blade 
8 to 12 in., breadth 4 to 7 in. ; petiole 4 to 6 in , swollen at base and 
apex. Male inflorescence 5 in. long, racemose, densely ferruginous- 
tomentoso ; the flower heads "35 in. in diam. Female inflorescence from 
the stom, 8 in. long, its branches horizontal : drupes globular, tomen- 
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