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et hinc in striam insinuata : embryo (e fructu immaturo ad- 
huc vix distinguendus) in alhumine carnoso inclusus. 
Frutices scandentes, in Asia tropica, prasertim in insulis, vigentes •, 
folia magna, ovata, acuminata, coriacea, S-nervia, scepius glabra, 
longe petiolata : racemi plurimi vel solitarii, supra-axillares, 
simplices ; flores breviter pedicellati. 
1. Tinomiscium petiolare, nob., Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 2. vii. 44; 
Flor. Ind. i. 205 ; — Cocculus petiolaris, Wall. Cat. ; — Cocculus 
coriaceus, Hook. MSS. {non Bl.) ; — ramulis teretibus, spira- 
liter sulcato-striatis, cortice ciuereo, rimoso : foliis amplis, 
ovato-oblongis, apice subito angustatis et acuminatis, imo 
subrotundatis breviter 2-sinuatis et hinc circa petiolum bre- 
viter productis, coriaceis, utrinque glaberrimis, 3-5-nerviis; 
supra opacis, subpallidis, minutissime striatulis, et quasi in 
lineis creberrimis insculptis; subtus brunnescenti-opacis, 
nervis venisque transversis prominentibus : petiolo subtenui, 
elongate, canaliculate, striato, apice paulo crassiore, imo tor- 
tuoso et valde tumefacto : i-acemis S 3-4 vel pluribus, e node 
supra-axillari, fasciculatis, simplicibus, tenuibus, latericeo- 
pilosis, petiolo 2-4-plo longioribus ; floribus nuraerosis, bre- 
viter pedicellatis et bracteatis ; raceme 2 fructifero stricto, pe- 
tiolo 2-plo longiore. — India orient., v. s. S in herb. Soc. Linn., 
Penang (Wall. Cat. 4964) ; in herb. Hook, et Lindl., Penang 
(sub nom. Coc. coriacei) ; 2 fructif., Assam (Grijfiths, 575). 
This is said to be a climbing plant from the hills, emitting a 
white milky juice. Its branches are 3-4 lines diam., with inter- 
nodes of about 2^ inches; the leaves are 4^-6^ inches long, 
3-4 inches broad, with a petiole 3^-4 inches long. From three 
to six very slender racemes issue from a knotty prominence a 
little above the petiole ; they are 5-10 inches long, covered with 
a red-brown tomentum ; the 1-flowered pedicels, supported by 
a linear pubescent bract of equal length, are 1 line long ; the 
six inner sepals are oblong, acute, 1 1 line long, scabridly tomen- 
tose outside, .fleshy, with erosely denticulated margins ; the pe- 
tals, about 1 line long, have their straight lateral margins invo- 
luted ; the anther-lobes, imbedded in the apex of the filament, 
open introrsely by oblique fissures, and curve back in dehiscence; 
in the centre are three punctiform indications of sterile ovaries 
upon a small central elevation. 
2. Tinomiscium Javanicum, nob., 1. c. 44 ; — Cocculus coriaceus, 
Bl. {non Hook.) Bijd. 25 ? ; Walp. Rep. i. 93 ; — ramulis tere- 
tibus, substriatis, tomentosis; foliis amplis, latissime obovatis, 
imo truncato-cordatis vel 2-sinuatis, apice breviter acutis vel 
attenuatis, coriaceis, 5-nerviis, supra nitidis glabrisque, subtus 
