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tiole 9-11 lines long. Four to six long and very slender raceme- 
like panicles are inserted 3 lines above the petiole ; they are 
2^ inches long; their branches, f inch long, bear many short 
pedicels Muth solitary flowers, which are very minute, the sepals 
being externally pilose ; the petals, with inflected sides, are fleshy 
and marked with numerous minute raised dots in longitudinal 
series. 
§ II. Stereoclea. Flores triandri. 
6. Limacia triaridra, nob., Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 2. vii. 43 ; Hook. 
& Th. FI. Ind. i. 188; — Menispermum triandrum, Roxb. FI. 
Ind. iii. 815 ; — Cocculus triandrus, Caleb. Linn. Trans, xiii. 
64; — ramulis teretibus, glabris; folds lanceolato-oblongis, 
apicem versus valde attenuatis et acuminatis, utrinque glabris 
et concoloribus, supra nitidis, imo trinerviis et triplinerviis, 
nervis basalibus mox evanescentibus, nervis alteris supra 
medium utrinque 3 arcuatim nexis ; petiolo tenui, limbo 5-plo 
breviore : racemis supra-axillaribus saepius solitariis, pube- 
rulis, petiolo brevioribus aut paulo longioribus; pedicellis 
unifloris, alternis, imo bracteola lineari munitis. — In insulis 
Malayensibus, v. s. in herb. Soc. Linn, et aliorum, ex hort. bot. 
Calcut. cult. (Wall. Cat. 4962) ; in herb. Hook., Ind. orient. 
(Abel). 
Roxburgh describes this species as a native of Pulo-Penang, 
cultivated in the Calcutta Botanic Garden, where Wallich^s spe- 
cimens were collected : in these the leaves are 3|-4^ inehes 
long, 1 j-l| inch broad, on a petiole 9 lines long : in Dr. Abel’s 
specimen the leaves are 2|-3^ inches long, f- Ij inch broad, 
on a petiole 6-9 lines long. The racemes, one to three in 
each axil, are 6-1 0 lines long ; the pedicels are 1 line long, 
the flowers of the same length, with nine sepals in three series, 
the two outer series being pubescent, minute, and bracteiform, 
the outermost smallest; the three inner sepals, with valvate 
aestivation, are ovate, acute, externally rugose, with ciliated mar- 
gins; petals six, cuneate-oblong, two-thirds the length of the 
inner sepals, smooth, with ciliated margins laterally inflected, 
erect; stamens three, erect, connivent, with introrse anthers, 
the filaments, as long as the inner sepals, are thickened at the 
summit, and embraced by three alternate petals; and in the 
centre are seen the punctiform rudiments of ovaria. 
7. Limacia Amherstiana, nob. ; — Cocculus Amherstianus, DC. 
MS. ; — ramulis striolatis, glabris ; folds oblongis, imo ro- 
tundatis et obsolete cordatis, e medio gradatim angustatis, 
apice acuminatis, canaliculatis et recurvis, marginibus valde 
