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simple above, but shortly branched in the lower moiety, where 
the peduncles, only 3 lines long, bear a few pedicellated flowers ; 
the upper ones are simply 1-flowered, and 2 lines long; the 
flowers, as in the last species, are smaller than in the preceding. 
7. Tinomiscium. 
When I proposed this genus in 1851, it was placed by me 
among the genera of doubtful position, because its male flowers 
alone were known; but I suggested the probability of its belong- 
ing to the Heteroclinieae, on account of its habit. The authors 
of the ‘Flora Indica ’ (p. 205) adopted a similar view, and, though 
retaining it among the “ genera dubise sedis,” remarked that a 
plant in fruit from Assam, of Griffiths’s collection, described by 
them in p. 179, probably belonged to the genus. This I had 
long before ascertained from a specimen in fruit shown to me 
by the late Dr. Lemann, where the seeds showed clearly that 
the genus belongs to the Heterocliniece, as I had supposed. The 
drupe is more than an inch in length, with a nearly apical style ; 
its thin rugose putamen has a broad, shallow, longitudinal 
groove on the flattened ventral face; and from this (the condyle) 
the seed is suspended, or rather is attached to it within the cell : 
from the immaturity of the nucleus, the precise form of the 
embryo could not be ascertained ; but its thin foliaceous coty- 
ledons were evident in the half-grown albumen, and in these 
respects it nearly accords with the fruit of Fibraurea. The species 
are all climbers; and the inflorescence consists of elongated slender 
simple racemes, either single or fasciculated, in the axils of the 
leaves. 
Tinomiscium, nob. — dioici. Masc. 12 in ordine 
ternario alternatim disposita, quorum 6 iuteriora, oblonga, 
extus scabrido-pruinosa, sestivatioue imbricata. Petala 6, ob- 
longa, sepalis paulo breviora, submembranacea, marginibus 
involutis. Stamina 6, petalis opposita, subsequilonga, et iis 
(in alabastro) amplecta, demum libera; filamenta gradatim 
incrassata, aut apice dilatata; anthera introrsse, 2-lobae, lobis 
oblongis, immersis, parallele adnatis, aut divergentibus, rima 
obliqua dehisceutibus. Ovaria rudimentaria 3, ceutralia, punc- 
tiformia. — Fcem. ignoti. Drupce 3 vel abortu pauciores, ovah- 
oblongse, compressse, styli vestigio apiculatae : putamen ob- 
longum, valde compressum, scrobiculato-tuberculatum, cori- 
aceo-testaceum, dorso convexius, et hiuc carina subobsoleta 
notatum, ventre planius, sulco longitudinal! late canaliculatum, 
1-loculare, l-spermum; condylus internus, obsoletus, aut 
potius in striam sulcatara longitudinalem reductus ; integu- 
menta tenuia, ventre linea longitudinal! incrassata signata. 
