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intus condylo magno cavo globoso usque ad medium loculi 
protenso, meatu externo lineari perforate instructum. Semen 
ioculo conforme, meniscoideum, ad faciem ventralem valde 
cavura : integumenta tenuissima, intra fissuras albuminis pli- 
cata, raphe ventrali longitudinali signata : embryo intra albu- 
men 2-laminare inclusus, lamina dorsali tenui, simplici, 
ventrali crassiore, in rugas plurimas transversas profunde ru- 
minata; cotyledonibus tenuissime foliaceis, ovatis, 3-nerviis, 
valde divaricatis, in locellis sejunctis utrinque absconditis, 
radicula supera tereti multo longioribus. 
Frutices alte scandentes, Asia, Australasia, et Africa intertropica : 
folia petiolata, cordata, submembranacea, 3-o-nervia : racemi 
simplices, extra-axillares ; ramis plurimis, imo bracteatis, 1-4- 
fioris; flores aggregati, flavi. 
1. Tinospora cordifolia, nob., Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 2. vii. 38 ; 
Hook. & Th. FI. Ind. i, 184; — Cocculus cordifolius, DC. Syst. 
i. 518, Prodr. i. 97; Rheede, Hort. Mai. vii. 39, tab. 21; 
W. ^ A. FI. Ind. i. 12 ; Wight, Icon. ii. tab. 485, 486 ; Colebr. 
Linn. Trans, xiii. 62 ; — Cocculus convolvulaceus, DC. Syst. i. 
518, Prodr. i. 97; — Cocculus verrucosus, Wall. Cat. [partim)-, 
— Menispermum cordifolium, Willd. iv. 826; Roxb. FI. Ind. 
iii. 811; — ramulis teretibus, striatis, cortice laxo, nitente, 
tuberculato; folds suborbicularibus, late cordatis, acutis aut 
repente tenuiter acuminatis, glaberrimis, submembranaceis, 
7-nerviis, subtus subglaucis; petiolo limbo breviore aut sub- 
aequilongo ; racemis in axillis solitariis, simplicibus, glabris, 
d folio brevioribus, $ folio longioribus; floribus cJ fasciculatis, 
2 solitariis ; drupis rubris, cerasiformibus, siccitate pisi magni- 
tudine. — In India orientali, v. s. in herb. Soc. Linn., Mungger 
(Wall. Cat. 4955), Ava (Wall. Cat. 4966 b, sub Coc. verru- 
cosus) ; in herb. Mus. Brit, et Hook. (Wight, 44), &c. 
This species appears to have an extensive range all over the 
peninsula of India, extending even to Ceylon : the length of 
the leaves is 2-4 inches, their breadth is the same, or more ; 
the petiole is lJ-2^ inches long; on their- under surface, at the 
junction of the nerves (which, however, are not connected by a 
membrane), an oblong brown spot is usually seen between them; 
the c? raceme is 2\ inches, the 2 5 inches long. C. cordi- 
folius, DC., seems to be the S , and C. convolvulaceus, DC., the > 
$ plant. In the male flower, the petals are 3-lobed, and their 
inflected lobes embrace the filaments ; in the female, the petals ' 
are cuneately oblong, with entire margins, which are not inflected: 
the inner sepals scarcely exceed a line in length. 
2. Tinospora palminervis, nob.; — Cocculus verrucosus, H7///. 
partim); — cortice laxo, verrucoso; ramulis junioribus subangu- 
