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florescentia supra-axillaris, paniculata, petiolo longior et folio 
brevior) flores minimi, velutini. 
§ I. Eulimacia. Flores hexandri. 
1. Limacia scandens, Lour., Cochin, ii. 761 ; — ramulis glabris, 
striatis •, foliis oblongis, imo rotundatis, vix cordatis, trinerviis, 
apice acuminatis, coriaceis, utrinque glabris, subtus subfuscis, 
nervis venisque prominentibus ; petiolo tereti, apice incras- 
sato ; paniculis binis, supra-axillaribus, pubescentibus, petiolo 
duplo longioribus. — Cochin China, v. s. in herb. Mus. Brit. 
(Loureiro). 
The leaves are about 3f inehes long, 1| inch broad, on a pe- 
tiole 7-9 lines long ; the panicles spring from a point 4 lines 
above the oi’igin of the petiole ; they are about 1 inch long, with 
two or three branches 2-4 lines long, each bearing about three 
one-flowered pedicels 1 line long; the flower consists of three 
ovate, acute, braeteiform sepals, three intermediate ones twice 
their size, and three inner sepals somewhat larger, with valvate 
margins and a membranaceous apical appendage, all pilose out- 
side, glabrous within, thick and subfleshy ; six cuneate-oblong 
petals, obtusely rounded at the summit, with indexed margins, 
each embracing a stamen which somewhat exceeds it in length ; 
the fllaments are gradually clavate, and the adnate, parallel, ob- 
long anther-cells are extrorse. 
2. Limacia oblonga, nob., Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 2. vii. 43; Hook. 
& Th. El. Ind. i. 189; — Cocculus oblongus. Wall. Cat .-, — 
ramulis striatis, ferrugineo tomentosis; foliis oblongis vel 
lanceolato-oblongis, apice attenuato-acutis et mucronato-cus- 
pidatis, imo rotundatis vel acutioribus, 3-5-nerviis, nervis ex- 
terioribus mox evanidis et anastomosantibus, coriaceis, utrin- 
que glabris, supra in costa nervisque sulcatis et puberulis, 
subtus opacis, nervis validis venisque reticulatis prominenti- 
bus, petioloque brevi ferrugineo-tomentosis ; paniculis race- 
mosis, remote supra-axillaribus, binis vel solitariis, folio 
dimidio vel quarto brevioribus ; staminibus glabris ; ovariis 
sericeis; drupis subglobosis, gibbosis, rugulosis. — Malacca, 
V. s. in herb. Soc. Linn., Hook., et Lindl.-, Penang (M'all. 
Cat. 4963), Malacca (Griffiths). 
Wallich describes this species as a small tree from the hills 
of Pulo-Penang. In Griffiths’s specimens from the mainland 
(which must not be confounded with those of another species) 
the leaves are more acute at base, and are otherwise distinguished 
by their fewer and more distant nerves. The leaves are 5-8 inches 
long, 2-4| inches broad, on a terete petiole |-1 inch long, some- 
