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lateraliter valde divaricatae, in locellis sejunctis sepultae, radi- 
cula brevi tereti supera axin versus inclinata et ad stylum spec- 
tante multoties longiores. 
Frutices scandentes India orientalis et Insularum incolce, sapius 
glabri, cortice suberoso ; folia majuscula, late ovata, scepe cor- 
data, integerrima, subcoriacea, longe petiolata ; paniculse race- 
mosa, supra-axillares, elongates, pendula-, flores pedicellati, 
pedicellis basi et medio 2>-bracteatis. 
1. Anamirta paniculata, Coleb. Linn. Trans, xiii. 66; — A. Coc- 
culus, IV. A. Prodr. FI. Pen. Or. 446; Ann. Sc. Nat. ii. 
69, tab. t. 3, d $ ; Hook. Th. FI. Ind. i. 385 ; — Cocculus 
suberosus, DC. Syst. i. 519, Prodr. i. 97; Coleb. 1. c. 63; 
W. ^ A. 1. c. i. 11 ; — Cocculus lacunosus, DC. 1. c. 519; — 
Menispermum Cocculus, Linn, {in parte), sp. 1468 ; Gaertn. 
i. 219, tab. 70. f. 7 ; Wall. As. Res. xiii. 403 [non Roxb.) ; — 
Menispermum lacunosum, Lam. Diet. iv. 98; — Menispermum 
beteroclitum, Roxb. FI. Ind. iii. 817 ; — Menispermum mona- 
delphum, Roxb. Cat. Merc. Ang. Ind. Or. tab. 130, cJ; — 
Cissampelos Cocculus, Poir. {in part.) Diet. v. 9; — Natsjatam, 
Rheede, Hort. Mai. vii. tab. 1 ; — ramulis teretibus striatis, cor- 
tice cinereo, suberoso, rimoso, subtuberculato ; foliis rotundato- 
ovatis vel orbiculatis, cordatis, subacutis, coriaceis, firmis, 5- 
nerviis, supra glabris, pallidis, lucidis, rugulosis, in nervis 
immersis sulcatis, infra pruinoso-candicantibus, glabris, nervis 
grossis prominentibus, in axillis nervorum venarumque bar- 
batis; petiolo angulato-striato, imo apieeque incrassato, limbo 
dimidio breviore; paniculis racemosis, supra-axillaribus, elou- 
gatis, pendulis, glabris, rachi angulato-striata, rufescente, 
ramis longiusculis ; sepalis subinsequalibus, ovatis, margine 
eroso-ciliatis ; staminibus 30-35. — In India orientali, v.s. in 
herb. Soc. Linn. S et2 , M all. Cat. 4954 ; in herb. Mus. Brit, 
et Hook. 
The specific name of Colebrook certainly claims priority (1819) 
over that of Wight and Arnott (1834), the latter having been 
adopted by the authors of the ‘ Flora Indica.’ In the native 
specimens the leaves are 4-6 inches long, the same in breadth, 
on a petiole 3-5 inches long ; they are rigid, quite glabrous be- 
neath, though opake, yellowish, and pruinose, with tufts of white 
hairs in the axils of the nerves, which are coarse and prominent ; 
they are apiculated and bent back at the apex, and the margins 
are scarcely revolute ; the male raceme is 10-14 inches long, 
its lateral branches 1 inch long, with pedicels 2-3 lines long ; 
the fructiferous racemes are 6-8 inches long, with thick divari- 
cated pedicels 3-5 lines apart, 5 lines long, carpophorum thicker 
than pedicel, sulcated, 3-4 lines long, with generally two very 
