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CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOTANY. 
8. Tinospora reticulata, nob. ; — scandens ; ramulis teneribus, 
teretibus, glabris, remote lenticellatis ; foliis ovatis aut ob- 
longis, basi truncatis et 2-sinuatisj vix cordatis, circa petiolum 
attenuatis, apice repente acuminatis, et bine canaliculato- 
recurvis, imo 5-nerviis, reticulatis, vix membranaceis, glaber- 
rimis, utrinque pallidis et subnitidis ; racemo axillari, petiolo 
4-plo longiore, basi foliifero. — In ins. Philippinis, v. s. in herb, 
variis (Cuming. 1286). 
This plant has the peculiarity, seen in all the following species 
from Africa and Australia, of bearing rudimentary, and often 
deciduous, petiolated leaflets in the lower axils of the racemes, 
which in T. Bakis are largely developed. The branchlets are 
slender, quite glabrous, dull, and striated with a few raised len- 
ticels, the internodes being of 2 inches; the leaves are 3-4 
inches long, 2-2^ inches broad, with a petiole 1-1^ inch long; 
the racemes are 4-6 inches long, the three lowermost flowerless 
axils 1 inch apart, bearing alternate leaflets similar in form, 
1 inch long, | inch broad, on a petiole f inch long ; the pedicels 
are 2 lines long, 2-3 lines apart, bracteated at base, all very 
glabrous ; the flowers are somewhat large, the inner sepals being 
fully 1^ line long. 
9. Tinospora Bakis, nob. ; — Cocculus Bakis, A. Rich, in Guill. et 
Perott, FI. Seneg. i. 12, tab. 4 ; — ramulis teretibus, subsube- 
rosis, glabris, striatis, cortice pallido rimoso verruculoso tectis; 
foliis oblongis, profunde cordatis, lobis basalibus rotundatis, 
apice longe acuminatis et mucronatis, canaliculato-recurvis, et 
hinc subconduplicatis, submembranaceis, glaberi’imis, 5-7- 
nerviis, nervis supra immersis, subtus prominulis ; pedunculis - 
axillaribus, 1-3-floris, vel in ramulis novellis apice aphyllis 
racemum terminalem glaberrimum efformantibus ; racemis ? 
folio brevioribus.— In Africa tropica septentrionali, v. s. in herb. 
DC., Senegambia S (Perottet) ; in herb. Delessert. (Heudelot) ; 
in herb. Hook., Nubia, ad Fazokel, S (Kotschky, 421) ; Cor- 
dofan, $ (Kotschky, 244). 
I have considered the latter specimens as speciflcally identical 
with the former, which is the typical plant of Perottet’s collec- 
tion, the only difi’erence being that in the former the leaves have 
a broad sinus at the base, while in the latter the basal lobes are 
separated by a more acute sinus. The leaves are 2-3 inches 
long, 2-2^ inches broad, on a petiole 1-1 j inch long; the axil- 
lary raceme is almost filiform, 4—6 inches long, often, but not 
always, leaf-bearing at its base, as in the preceding species, the 
leaves there being 1 i-1 ^ inch long, Ij-l^ broad, on a petiole 
4 hnes long; the alternate pedicels, bracteated at base, are 
1 line long ; the flower expanded, 3 hnes in diam. 
