378 
Sepals -A to 8, connate ; petals of S 4 to 8 connate, 
of 9 1, anthers sessile on a central column ... 12. Cycled. 
Tribe IV. PachjgonecB. Mowers usually 3-merous. Ovaries usu- 
ally 3. Drupes with a subbasal or ventral style-soar. Seed curved, 
hooked or iufiexod, albumen 0 ; cotyledons thick fleshy. 
Sepals H; petals stamens 1 or 8 ... ... 13. Anlitd&is. 
1. Tinospoea, Miers. 
Climbing shrubs. Flowers in axillary or terminal racemes or pani- 
cles. Sepals 6, 2-seriate, inner larger membranous. Petals 0, smaller. 
M He flower; stamens 6, filaments free, the tips thickened : anther cells 
obliquely admit e, bursting obliquely. Female flower : staminodes 6,clavate. 
0 • tries 3 j stigmas forked. Drupes 1-3, dorsally convex, ventrally flat; 
stylo-scar Bubtermiual ! endocarp rugose, dorsally keeled, ventrally 
concave. Seed grooved ventrally or curved round the intruded sub- 
2-lobod endocarp ; albumen ventrally ruminate; cotyledons foliaceous, 
ovate, spreading. — Distrib. Species about 8, tropical Asiatic and 
African. 
1. T. crista, Miers Coutrib. Ill, 34, Young shoots glabrous, the 
older bark warted. Leaves membranous, glabrous, ovate-cordate or 
oblong-acuminate, entire or repand, sometimes sub-sagittate ; length of 
blade 2 to 6 in., breadth 1 to 4 in., petiole 1 to 3 in. Racemes from, the old 
wood, solitary or fascicled. Flowers 2 to 3, in the axils of ovate fleshy 
bracts, '15 in. long, campanulate, green. Stamens actuate to the base of 
the petals, anthers quadrate. Drupe elliptic-oblong, pale yellow, about 
J o in. long or less. Hook. fil. FI. B. Ind. I, 96; H. f. & T. Fl. Ind. 
183 ; Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. I, pt. i, 78 ; Kuvz For. Flor. Burmah, I, 52. 
Menispcrmnm crispum, h. M. verrucosum, Roxb. Fl. In$. iii, 808. M. 
tuberculatum^ Lamk. Cocculus crispus, DC. Prodr. i. 97 ; Hassk. PL 
Jav. Rar. 166. Cocculus coriaceous, Bl. Bijd. 25. C. verrucosis, Wall, 
Cat. 4966 A. B. 
In all the provinces, but apparently not very common. Distrib. 
Malayan Archipelago: tropical British India. 
2. T. ULiOTNORA, Miers Contrib. iii, 35. All parts glabrous, the 
branches terete, the lax brown bark bearing many 4-lobed warts. Leaves 
subcoriaceous, remote, ovate or ovate-oblong, acuminate, sub-repand- 
sinuate or entire, the base cordate 5-nerved ; venation prominent ; length 
of blade 3 to 4 in., breadth 1*5 to 2 in. : petiole slender, swollen at the base, 
1 to 2 in. long. Racemes slender, axillary, longer than the leaves: 
pedicels l-flowered. Drupe as in T. crispa, but with thinner endocarp. 
Hook, fil ft B. Ind. i. 97. Hook fil. & Thorns. FL Ind. 105. Ooeculus 
petwlnris, Wall. Cat. 
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