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their very spreading branchlets are inch long, bearing one 
or two pedicels of the same length, globosely enlarged at their 
summit and supporting from one to three drupes 1 inch long 
and J inch broad (which is larger than the fruit of any of the 
following species). 
In Dr. Seemann’s collection from China there is a plant which 
singularly corresponds with Dr. Wight's drawing, especially in 
the shape of its leaves and their equally short petiole ; its leaves 
are of the same size, similar in shape, subrhomboid, subcuneate 
at base, 5- nerved, entire on the margin, subcoriaceous, smooth 
and pale green above, greenish glaucous beneath, with promi- 
nent yellow nerves, 2f inches long, 2| inches broad, with a 
petiole palately inserted, lf-l| inch long : the $ fructiferous 
raceme, quite immature, is 12 inches long, on a rather stout 
rachis, with divaricating branches inch apart, ^ inch long, 
bearing one or two fructiferous pedicels ^ inch long, thus agree- 
ing with Dr. Wight's drawing and conforming to the characters 
stated in the above diagnosis. There is some resemblance in 
the shape of the leaves and mode of insertion of the petiole to 
D. jnctinervis ; but there the leaves are much thinner in texture, 
whitish beneath, with violet-coloured nerves, and they have a 
much longer and a more slender petiole. 
2. Diphclisia inclyta, nob.; — Cocculus macrocarpus. Hook, et 
Th. in, parte {non Wight nec W. et Arn.) FI. Ind. i. 191 ; — 
Quinio cocculoides, Schlecht. Linncea, xxvi. p. 732 ; — ramulis 
teretibus, strictiusculis, striatis, nitidis, nigris ; axillis valde 
approximatis et ob foliis deciduis mox cupuloso-nodosis ; 
foliis late orbicularibus, imo cordatis vel subtruncatis, a medio 
gradatiin subangustioribus, apice rotundiusculis et emargi- 
natis, ad nervum marginalem cartilagineum prominulurn re- 
mote sinuato-crenatis, e basi 5-nerviis, nervis extus longe ra- 
mosis, ramisque in sinibus marginalibus terminantibus, utrin- 
que glaberrimis, transversim venosis, supra nitentibus viridi- 
bus, subtus opacis canescenti- vel fulvido-glaucis, nervis te- 
nuibus prominulis; petiolo gracili, recto, rigidulo, striato, 
glabro, imo vix incrassato, apice fusculo, plus minusve intra 
marginern inserto, limbo fere duplo longiore : panicula 
elongata, in ramis junioribus axillari et solitaria, a basi sursum 
alternatim ramosa; vel in ramis annotinis aphyllis plurimae, 
similes, longissimse, glabrse ; rachi ramosa; ramis longiusculis, 
valde divaricatis, ramulos 2-3 unitloros apice gerentibus ; 
tloribus pedicellatis ; paniculis ? siinilibus, sed cum ramis 
longioribus ; drupis quam in priecedente multo minoribus. — 
In Malabaria et Zeylania : v. s. in herb, meo ^ , Peradenia, 
Ceylon (Gardn. 29); in herb. Hook. (^, Courtallam (Wight, 
