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CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOTANY. 
latisjglabrisjlenticellis parvis signatis ; foliis remotis, deltoideo- 
oblongis, acuminatis, marginibus integris vel repando-sinuatis, 
imo cordatis, sinu subangulato, 5-7-nerviis, membranaceis, 
glaberrimis, supra pallidis, subtus glaucis, bine nervis ad con- 
cursum basalem membranula ligatis ; petiolo limbo fere 3-plo 
breviore; racemis c? geminis vel solitariis, supra-axillaribus, 
gracilibus, folio vix longioribus ; floribus 2-3, in ramis brevi- 
bus pedicellatis. — In Birma, v. s. in herb. Soc, Linn., fluv. 
Irawaddi (Wall. Cat. 4966). 
In its general features this species approaches the preceding, 
both having cordate, glabrous, pale, membranaceous leaves upon 
very slender petioles, which seldom exceed half the length of the 
blade •, they have a similar verrucose bark ; but the leaves are 
deltoidly oblong, acute, with sinuose margins, and the basal 
nerves beneath are united by web-shaped membrane, leaving 
hollow spaces beneath them, while the corresponding portion of 
the upper sm’face shows a large brown spot, as in T. cordifolia. 
The leaves are 2^-4! inches long, with a broad angular sinus 
^ inch deep ; they are 2-3^ inches broad, on a very slender pe- 
tiole 1-1^ inch long. The male slender racemes are 3^-8 inches 
long, with alternate branches inch long, bracteolated at 
base, and bearing two or three flowers on very short pedicels. 
3. Tinospora Malabarica, nob. 1. c . ; Hook. & Th. /. c. 183 ; — Coc- 
culus Malabaricus, DC. Syst. i. 518, Prodr. i. 97 ; Rheede, 
Hort. Mai. vii. t. 19, 20; — Menispermum Malabaricum, Lam. 
Diet. iv. 96 ; Willd. Syst. iv. 826 ; — ramulis tortuosis, tereti- , 
bus, verruculosis, pilis albidis adspersis ; foliis sparsis, obo- 
vatis, acutis, apice acuminatis, imo profunde cordatis, sinu 
rotundato, 7-nerviis, reticulatis, pallide membranaceis, supra 
pilosulis, subtus pubescentibus ; petiolo tereti, basi incrassato, 
piloso, limbo fere dimidio breviore ; racemis supra-axillaribus, 
tomentosis, S folii longitudine, $ simplicibus, petiolo bre- 
vioribus ; floribus viridibus ; drupis cerasiformibus, pallide ru- 
bris. — In Malabar, v. s. in herb. Soc. Linn. (Wall. Cat. 4969). 
In this distinct species the leaves are about 5| inches long 
from the bottom of the basal lobes, or 4| inches from the inser- 
tion of the petiole to the apex, 4 inches broad, on a petiole 
3 inches long; the fructiferous raceme is 2 inches long, the 
alternate pedicels about 3 lines long ; the drupes, of a bright-red 
colour, are stipitated ; the putamen, about 3 lines long, marked 
externally by many sbarp-pointed tubercles arranged in longitu- 
dinal interrupted lines. 
Var. scabridula ; — foliis remotis, longe petiolatis, suborbicula- 
ribus, gradatim angustioribus, apice repente cuspidato-at- 
