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CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOTANY. 
rhoaiboideo-elongatis, basi cuneatis, apice obtusis et mucro- 
natis, triplinerviis, utriiique glabris, viridioribus, concoloribiis, 
nervis teuuissiinis rubesceiitibus ; petiolo gracili, limbo 3-plo 
breviore : racemo solitario, axillari, uano, petiolo dimidio 
breviore, glabroj floribus paucis, agglomeratis, vel inliores- 
centia in raiiiulis novellis, foliis delapsis, racemura elongatum 
interrupte spicatum simulante : pedunculo ? axillari, semper 
solitario, 1-3-floro, e gemma tomentosa supra-axillari euato, 
petiolo dimidio breviore. — In India orientali : v. s. in herb. Soc. 
Linn. (Jet $ , Madaraspatam (Wall. Cat. 4975); in herb. Hook, 
et meo, Coimbatore (Gardner), prope Coimbatore (Wight, 43). 
This species bas been amalgamated vvitb tbe preceding by tbe 
authors of the ‘ Flora Indica but, from the following details, 
it will be seen to be quite distinct. As far as our knowledge 
extends at present, the C. Leeeba does not spread further to the 
southward than the Punjab, while this species seems peculiar 
to the southern portion of the peninsula of India. It much 
resembles some varieties of the former; but its leaves are 
thinner in texture, larger, longer, differently nerved, and fur- 
nished with a longer petiole : the (J inflorescence, generally bi- 
nate in the former, is here always solitary in the axils ; and, 
instead of nine, the flower has only six sepals ; the fruit is also 
much larger. Its leaves are Ij-lf inch long, inch broad, 
on a very slender petiole 5 lines long. The axillary (J peduncle 
is only 1 line long, bearing three sessile minute flowers at its 
apex ; the flower, with a minute bract at the base, has six sepals, 
the three outer ones, cuneately oblong, half the length of the 
three inner ones, which are cuneately rhomboid, broad, concave, 
all being glabrous, opaque, with membranaceous ciliolate mar- 
gins ; six petals, half their length, cuneately oval, with involuted 
basal lobes, glabrous, submembranaceous, with six stamens of 
equal length seated on their claws. The ? peduncle is 2-3 lines 
long, with minute flowers: the drupes are 4 lines in diameter; 
the putamen is much larger than that of the preceding species, 
is cochleiform, with a sharp salient basal angle, is 3 lines in 
diameter, and has two concentric rows of short transverse ridges 
with intervening furrows on each face, and a very deep condyle. 
6. Cocculus recisus, nob.; — ramulis tenerrimis, dealbatis, glabris ; 
foliis oblongis, imum versus late truncatis vel obtusis, lateribus 
plus minusve profunde inciso-lobatis, lobis utrinque 1 aut 2, 
subbrevibus et obtusis, saepe (praesertim in junioribus, ob lobos 
fere obsoletos) subhastatis, a medio gradatim angustioribus, 
apice obtusis et mucronatis, e basi 3-5-nerviis, nervis fere 
immersis, utrinque furfure incano vel fulvo glaucis, et paulo 
puberulis; petiolo tenuissimo, limbo 6-9- plo breviore, cano 
