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CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOTANY. 
ntus Iseve, 1-spermum ; semen loculo conforme, 2-crure ; 
integumenta membranaceaj tenuia, inter rimas albuminis pli- 
cata, et per raphen ad condylum affixa; embryo elongatus, 
teres, intra albumen copiosum undique transversim et anfrac- 
tuose ruminatum hippocrepice inflexus, cotyledonibus sub- 
compressis, incumbentibus, radiculce tereti sequilatis et 3-plo 
longioribus, hac in locello superiore ad stylum spectante, illis 
in inferiore ad hilum tensis. 
Frutices scandentes Asice intertropicce et insularum ; folia oblongo- 
ovata, glabra, ‘6-nervia, et sape triplinervia ; racemi subpani- 
culati, axillares, solitarii vel gemini. 
1. Tiliacora racemosa, Coleb., Linn. Trans, xiii. 67 Tiliacora 
acuQiinata, Hook. Sf Th, FI. Ind. i. 187; — Cocculus acuminatus, 
DC. Syst. i. 527, Prodr. i. 99; Deless. Icon. i. tab. 95; 
— C. radiatus, DC. Syst. i. 527, Prodr. i. 99; — Meni- 
spermum acuminatum, Lam. Diet. iv. 101 ; — M. radiatum, 
Lam. 1. c. 100; — M. polycarpum, Roxb. FI. Ind. iii. 816; — 
Valli-caniram, Rheede, Mai. vii. 5, t. 3 ; — Tilia-kora, Beng. ; — 
scandens, ramulis glabris, striatis, cinereis ; foliis ovato- 
oblongis vel ovatis, acuminatis, imo bisinuato-obtusis, rarius 
subcordatis, marginibus ssepe repando-crenatis, imo 3-nerviis 
et mox triplinerviis, glaberrimis, supra nitidis, subtus pal- 
lidioribus, nervis venisque reticulatis prominulis ; petiolo sub- 
tenui ; paniculis axillaribus, racemosis, folio longioribus vel 
interdum multo brevioribus, puberulis, ramis apice 1-3-floris; 
doribus sessilibus, bracteolis subulatis; petalis 6, minimis, 
apice retusis ; staminibus 6 vel 8 ; racemis $ brevioribus, sim- 
plicibus; ovariis 9-12; drupis 3-8, radiantibus, singulis car- 
pophoris propriis suffultis. — In India orientali, v. s. in herb, 
variis, prcEsertim in herb. Soc. Linn. (Wall. Cat. 4958). 
The specific name given by Colebrook at the time he esta- 
blished the genus upon this plant certainly claims the preference 
to that adopted by the authors of the ‘ Flora Indica.’ I have 
followed their example in identifying with it the Cocculus acu- 
minatus and Cocculus radiatus of DeCandolle, although I am not 
satisfied that they form one species ; we may always distinguish 
the one from the other by the comparative length of the petiole 
and a peculiar external aspect which it is difficult to describe ; 
but as the length of the petiole often varies somewhat in the 
same specimen, it is not easy to draw the line of distinction in 
words. The leaves vary in size and colour : those answering to 
Cocculus acuminatus, DC., are larger, of a lighter colour, often 
pallid, more acuminate at the apex, with a more entire margin, 
about 5 inches long, 3 inches broad, on a petiole 1-1 j inch long; 
m Cocculus radiatus, DC., they are generally of a darker green. 
