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CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOTANY. 
type of which is the Cocculus cordifolius, DC. : the stems 
have a lax, splitting, membranaceous bark, often furnished with 
verrucose tubercles. Colebrook and Roxburgh relate, concern- 
ing some of the species mentioned below, that when any portion 
of their stems becomes severed, it sends out, even from the 
greatest height, a sprout which lengthens downwards till it 
reaches the ground, when it takes root, by which the severed 
portion continues to maintain its flourishing growth ; and they 
have seen radicant shoots of this description, 30 feet long, not 
thicker than a pack-thread. The plants have all roundish cor- 
date leaves, more or less membranaceous, generally glabrous, 
upon slender petioles; their inflorescence is an elongated supra- 
axillary raceme, with small glabrous flowers; their somewhat 
globular fleshy drupes contain a spherical, smooth or tubercu- 
lated, subosseous putamen, having a globular, hollow, internal 
condyle on the ventral face, with a small external aperture : 
round this condyle the meniscus-shaped seed, which fills the 
cell of the putamen, is moulded, and attached by the longitudinal 
line of the raphe. The embryo (as in all the rest of the Hetero- 
clinieip) has a superior terete radicle and large divaricating folia- 
ceous cotyledons, imbedded in distinct cells of a copious rumi- 
nated albumen. 
Tinospora, nob. — Flores dioici. Masc. Sepala 6, biseriata, 
exteriora minora, obovata, glabra, submembranacea, margine 
eroso-crenulata ; aestivatione imbricata. Petala 6, minuta, 
sepalis opposita, imo subunguiculata, apicem versus 3-loba, 
lobis lateralibus inflexis, stamina amplectentibus. Sta- 
mina 6, libera, divaricato-patentia, petalis opposita : filamenta 
longiuscula, apice clavato-incrassata ; antherce 2-lobse, sub- 
extrorsse, lobis oblongis, apice conniventibus, imo divaricatis, 
utrinque lateraliter semiimmersis, rima obliqua fere marginali 
longitudinaliter dehiscentibus. Ovaria rudimentaria nulla. — 
Foem. Sepala ut in masc. Petala minuta, spathulato-oblonga, 
erecta. Stamina sterilia, 6, petalis opposita, breviora et cum 
illis imo gynsecii afiixa : antheris efiPoetis. Ovaria 3, gibboso- 
oblonga, libera, supra gynsecium cyhndricum imposita, erecta, 
1-locularia; ovulo unico anatropo supra medium loculi ex 
angulo interne funiculo brevi appenso. Stylus brevis, 
crassus. Stigma subliguliformi-peltatum, subcavum, mar- 
gine sinuatum, aut profunde 3-laciniatum, laciniis insequa- 
libus rotundatis. Drupce 3, vel abortu pauciores, globosse, 
gibbosulae, carnosae, breviter stipitatse, stigmate persistente 
subexcentrico apiculatae ; putamen osseo-pergamineum, coni- 
presso-subglobosum, dorso convexius, hie ssepe tuberculatum, 
sutura peripherica, sub-2-valvare, ventre subplanum, hinc 
