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27) ; ? , in fructu, penins. Ind. (Wight) j cJ et ? , Ceylon 
(Thwaites, 1052) ; Bombay (Law), Concan (Gibson), Manga- 
lore (Hohenacker, 836). 
This species is extremely distinct from the preceding, differing 
in its larger, rounder, broader, more deeply crenated, subcordate 
leaves with straighter nervures, upon very much longer and 
straighter petioles, in its far longer and more slender panicles 
with smaller flowers. Gardner informed me that the stem of 
this climbing plant attains the size of more than a foot in dia- 
meter, exhibiting in its cross section very numerous concentric 
zones. Its leaves, when full-grown, are 3 inches long, 3^ inches 
broad, on a very slender rigid petiole 5 inches long. The 
panicles grow out of the axils of the younger branches whose 
leaves have not attained more than an inch in diameter ; the 
rachis is very slender, 4-5 inches long, with branches about 
2 inch apart and ^-1 inch long, filiform, spicately charged with 
from four to ten one-flowered pedicels; the flower expanded 
does not exceed 1 line in diameter. The panicles out of the old 
leafless nodes measure sometimes 14 inches in length, and are 
branched in a similar manner. The $ fructiferous panicle sent 
from the Indian peninsula by Dr. Wight is 5 inches long, with 
slender branches 1-1^ inch long, and a fruit only 7 lines long 
and 5 lines broad, of a glaucous hue, thus differing from that of 
the preceding species, in which the rachis is twice its length, 
with veiy stout branches 2 inches long, and with drupes nearly 
double their size. 
The above fructiferous specimen and the flowering speci- 
mens sent from Courtallam by Dr. Wight must have reached 
England after the publication of the ‘ Illustrations ^ and the 
‘ Prodromus for upon them is a note in Dr. Arnott’s writing, 
which says : — In all the specimens sent me by Wight the 
flowers are in an elongated narrow panicle, as you see here, and 
come out seven panicles together from the old leafless branches ; 
but in Wight’s ‘ Illustrations,’ pi. 7, they are figured differently.” 
This amply confirms the inferences I have drawn regarding the 
preceding species. Dr. Wight has informed me that he cannot 
now call to mind any recollection of this difference. 
Under a separate head I will at a future time recapitulate the 
characters upon which Schlechtendal founded his genus Quiniu, 
and will show that it was established upon the plant above 
quoted, collected in Mangalore by Hohenacker. His Quinio 
cocculoides will therefore become a synonym of Diploclisia 
inclyta. 
Var. peltoidea: v. s. in herb. Hook., Bombay (Law). This 
variety is remarkable for its more deeply peltate leaves, cordate 
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