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the form of the putamen, the kind of condyle, and the structure 
of the albuminous seed; the former has the same accumbent 
cotyledons as the latter ; but the entire embryo is broader and 
more flattened, and there is a difference in the relative lengths 
of the radicle and cotyledons. The authors of the ‘ Flora Indica’ 
and of the ^ Genera Plantarum’ place Limacia in the same tribe 
with Cocculus ; but it cannot consistently remain there, owing 
to the peculiar structure of the embryo. The species of Limacia 
are distributed through tropical Asia, the Eastern archipelago, 
China, and Japan; but the botanists above mentioned record 
only three of them. 
Limacia, Lour. — Flores dioici. Masc. Sepala 9, in ordine ter- 
uario alternatim disposita, 6 exteriora minora, bracteiformia, 
3 interiora majora, concava, subrotunda, utrinque sericea, 
sestivatione arete valvata, dein apicibus reflexis, marginibus 
basalibus conniventibus. Petala 6, subbiserialia, obovata, 
unguiculata, sepalis multo minora, lateribus inflexis stamina 
amplectentibus. Stamina 6 (interdum 3), libera, petalis sub- 
aequalia, ad eorum unguem adnata, et androecio centrali imo 
affixa; filamenta subincurva, erecta, carnosula, apice incras- 
sata, interdum antice hirsuta; antherm conniventes, 2-lob8e, 
cordatae, marginibus rima longitudinali utrinque hiantes. 
Ovaria rudimentaria apice androecii punctiformia. — Fcem. Se- 
pala et petala ut in masc. Stamina sterilia 6 (vel 3), aequalia; 
filamenta tenuiora, erecta, petalis involuta, apice (ex antheris 
effoetis) 2-glandulosa. Ovaria 3, libera, sepalis interioribus op- 
posita, gibba, dense hirsuta, gynaecio brevi hirsuto insita, l-lo- 
cularia, 1-ovulata; s/y /ms brevis ; stigma excentricum, subtri- 
lobum, concavum, reflexum,glabrum. Drupce 3, vel abortu pau- 
ciores, gibbose -subglobosae, vel transversim oblongae, carnosae, 
glabrae, siccae rugulosae; putamen osseum, subglobosum, vel 
oblongum, subcompressum, zona peripherica canaliculata cir- 
cumdatum, loculo cyclice hippocrepiformi condylum circum- 
cingente; condylus magnus, loculo excentricus, convexus, 
intus septulo perforato 2-cameratus, meatu lineari vel ovato 
extus utrinque transversim pertusus. Semen loculo conforme, 
fere annulare, intus subplanum et lateraliter compressum ; 
integumenta tenuia, ad faciem ventralem raphe longitudinali 
signata, et hinc intra fissuram condyli insinuata ; embryo intra 
albumen simplex inclusus, per totam longitudinem tenuis- 
simus, fere annularis, pariter compresso-teres, cotyledonibus 
accumbentibus, radicula supera ad stylum spectante 4-plo 
longioribus. 
Frutices scandentes in Asia tropica et ejus insulis crescentes ; folia 
elliptica, acuminata, pleraque glabra, Z-nervia, petiolata’, in- 
