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CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOTANY, 
divaricated forked branches 1| line long, each supporting a drupe 
5 lines in diameter, which is of a reddish hue, with a somewhat 
scrobiculated surface. In the Walliehian Herbarium, under 
no. 4954, are specimens of a more luxuriant growth cultivated 
in the Botanic Garden of Calcutta ; here the leaves are almost 
coriaceous, very deeply cordate, oblong, and suddenly attenuated 
at the apex by a short narrow acumiuation ; they are 8 inches 
long, 7| inches broad, the deeply sulcated petiole being thick, 
and 4| inches long ; the panicle is 1 1 inches long, on a slender 
rachis ^ line in diam., with lateral branches 1^-2 inches long, 
bearing numerous approximated flowers on pedicels 2 lines long. 
2. Anamirta flavescens, nob. ; — Anarairta cocculus, W. ^ A. {in 
parte) 1. c. 446; Hook. ^ Th. {in parte) l.c. i. 385; — Cocculus 
flavescens, DC. i. 520; Prodr. i. 97 ; — Menispermum flaves- 
cens, Lam. Diet. iv. 98; — Menispermum Cocculus, Roxb. {non 
Linn.) ; — idem, Linn, {in parte )] — Tuba flava, Rumph. Amb. v. 
38, tab. 24; — ramulis crassiusculis, teretibus, striatis, ligno 
flavido ; foliis ovatis, vel oblongis, imo truncatis vix cordatis, 
gradatim subacutis, acumine obtusiusculo, margine valde revo- 
luto, flaccidis, glabris (junioribus suborbicularibus cano sub- 
pubescentibus), 5-nerviis, supra pallide viridibus, valde con- 
vexis, ruguloso-opacis, ad nervos immerses profunde sulcatis, 
et inter nervos basales ubi junctos pulvino subgloboso niajus- 
culo donatis, subtus glauco-pallidis, nervis venisque prominen- 
tibus et in axillis barbatis; petiolo longissimo, tenui, striato, 
imo longe incrassato et subito deflexo, limbo lequilongo ; 
panicula ^ supra-axillari, folio 2-plo longiore, rachi crassius- 
cula, striata, ramis longiusculis, multifloris, floribus pediceh 
latis, albis, odoriferis; drupis sordide flavis. — Molucese in saxis 
maritimis, r. s. in herb. Soc. Linn . ; Wall. no. 1225, in H. B. 
Calc. cult. A.D. 1817, sub nom. Menisp. Cocculus, Roxb. 
This species is considered identical with the preceding by 
the authors of the ‘Flora Indica;^ but, although it corresponds 
in general habit and in the nature of its seeds, it differs in many 
essential respects. Dr. Roxburgh describes them as two distinct 
species, both growing, in his time, in the Botanic Garden of 
Calcutta, where he had the opportunity of comparing them : to 
the former he gave the name of Menispermum heteroclitum, to 
the latter M. Cocculus. DeCandolle and Lamarck respectively 
detail their characters as distinct species. Dr. Arnott also re- 
marks (Ann. Sc. Nat. ii. 267) that Anamirta racemosa, Coleb., 
is the same as Cocculus suberosus, DC., and M. heteroclitum, 
Roxb., but is different from the M. Cocculus, Roxb. Gaertner 
also regarded the Natsjatan of the Hort. Malab. as the Coc- 
culus officinalis, and different from the M. Cocculus, Linn. ; 
