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a petiole 4^ inches long; there is no pulvinate swelling at the 
basal junction of the nerves. The ^ raceme is 8 inches long, 
its branches (1-2 inches long) bearing very numerous flowers 
crowded together in a spike-like form ; each flower has about 
fifty stamens aggregated in a sessile globular head. The ? or 
fructiferous raceme is 10 inches long ; its alternate spreading 
pedicels are 9 lines long, and bear at their summit a carpo- 
phorum 3 lines long and two erect forks 2 lines long, all being 
longer and more slender than in the typical species ; alternate 
with the two forks are two other short ones with a cicatrix at 
the apex, showing that the progress of their growth had been 
arrested at the time when the abortive ovaries fell off ; the two 
longer forks each support a drupe whose putamen is 5 lines long 
and 4 lines in diam. 
4. Anamirta populifolia, nob.; — Cocculus populifolius, DC. Syst. 
i. 519, Prodr. i. 97 ; Dene. Tim. 95 ; — Anamirta Cocculus {in 
parte), Hook. Th. 1. c. 185 ; — glaberrima, folds late ovatis, 
cordiformibus, acuminatis, integris, penninerviis ; petiolo 
elongate, imo torto; panicula $ ampla, ramosa, multiflora, 
floribus pedicellatis ; drupis 1-3, subglobosis, putamine piso 
paulo niajore. — In Timor, v. s. in herb. Mus. Par. 
The notes I made on examining the original specimen in the 
Paris herbarium are unfortunately mislaid, and I have only to 
refer to the above character given by DeCandolle, who describes 
the leaves to be of thinner texture, in size and shape like those 
of Populus angulatus (6-10 inches long, and of equal breadth). 
The panicle is large, much branched, with slender, striated, 
glabrous ramifications bearing pedicels at intervals of 4 lines, 
most of which have fallen off ; the persistent pedicels are 4 lines 
long, bearing a more slender carpophorurn, 2 lines long, and a 
branching drupiferous fork, 2 lines long, at the foot of which 
three cicatrices denote the places of the abortive ovules that have 
fallen off. The putamen is 5 lines long, and of a reddish colour, 
while that of the typical species is larger, and becomes nearly 
black when dry ; the internal structure is quite conformable with 
the characters of the genus. As in the two preeeding instances, 
this plant is confounded with the typical species by the authors 
of the ‘ Flora Indica.’ 
5. Anamirta lemniscata, noh.', — glabemma; ramulis subangu- 
latis ; folds ovato-oblongis, aut ovatis, imo latissimo bisinuato- 
obtusis, apice acutis, breviter attenuatis et mucronatis, sub- 
membranaceis, siccitate fuscescentibus, ebasi 7-nerviis, nervis 
tenuibus extrorsum nervosis, vix prominentibus, utrinque 
glabris, subtus pallidioribus et nervis in axillis barbatis; 
