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circa condylum gyrato, utrinque serie interiore lirarum 
alteraque concentrica exteriore irregulariter sulcato ; condylus 
internus, cochleatus et bicameratus, extus utrinque profuude 
excavatus et foramine lunato marginato perforatus. Semen 
loculo conforme, dorso rotundatum, veutre subconcavum ; 
integumentum tenue, latere ventrali linea incrassata (chalaza) 
ad condylum affixum ; embryo in albumine simplici carno- 
sulo, subcyclicus ; cotyledonibus crassiusculis, foliaceis, lanceo- 
lato-oblongis, incumbentibus, radicula tereti supera ad stylum 
basalem spectante 3-plo latioribus et 4-plo longioribus. 
Frutices scandentes vel suberecti, per Asiam tropicam et insulas 
dispersi ; io\\& petiolata, ovata vel lanceolata, e basi 3-5-nervia ; 
paniculse axillares, racemosce, folio breviores, ramis S-A-floris; 
racemi ? axillares, breves, pauciflori. 
1. Nephroica sarmentosa. Lour. FI. Coch. ii. 692 ; — Nephroica 
pubinervis, nob. olim in Hook. Kew Journ. iii. 259 ; — Cocculus 
Nephroia, DC. Syst. i. 531, Prodr. i. 100; — Menispermum 
reniforme, Spr. Syst. ii. 156; — scandens, ramulis teretibus, 
retrorsuin pubescentibus ; foliis ovali-oblongis vel obpyriformi- 
oblongis, imo rotundatis, saepe ultra medium gradatim angus- 
tioribus, apice rotundiusculis, mucrouatis, interdum sub- 
emarginatis, e basi 5-nerviis, utrinque glabris et fere con- 
coloribus, opacis, valde reticulatis, subtus puberulis, nervis 
venisque reticulatis vix prominulis ; petiolo brevi, pubescente, 
limbo 6-8-plo breviore : racemo ^ e pulvinari sericeo supra- 
axillari enato, folio breviore, puberulo, ramis alternis, brevi- 
bus, 3-floris, floribus pedicellatis ; sepalis 9, triseriatis, exte- 
rioribus bracteiformibus, margine ciliatis, interioribus multo 
majoribus, ovatis, submembranaceis, concavis, marginibus 
eroso-denticulatis, glabris ; petalis 6, duplo brevioribus, lineari- 
oblongis, apice in lacinias acutissimas subbreves fissis, imo 
breviter incurvo-auriculatis : racemo $ axillari, pubescente, 
folio 2-plo longiore. — In China et Java; v. s. in herb. Mus. 
Brit., Cochin-China (Lour.) ; Java, et $ (Banks & Soland.) ; 
in herb. Hook. ^ , Hongkong (Champion, 202). 
Loureiro states that ^ and $ branches are found on the same 
plant; but he was mistaken on this point. The branches are 
slender, with axils 1-1| inch apart; the leaves are 2-2| inches 
long, 1-1 1 inch broad, on a petiole 3-5 lines long. The 
panicle is If inch long, with few branches, 2 lines long, sup- 
porting three flowers on pedicels 1 line long : sometimes two of 
the flowers are abortive, and the panicle thus becomes a simple 
raceme. 
2. Nephroica hexagyna,no\).\ — Cocculus hexagynus, Coleb.Linn. 
