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44. H^matocarpus. 
This is a very peculiar genus, established upon the Fihraurea 
kcematocarpus of the authors of the ‘ Flora Indica / but it is very 
different from that genus, and belongs to quite another tribe, 
its proper place being among the Pachygonece. It is remarkable 
for its fleshy fruit, which is far larger than any yet known among 
the Menispermacea. I am indebted to Dr. Thomson for one of 
the drupes, which he brought home in spirits ; this enabled me to 
mark its distinctive features more completely than could possibly 
be done in the dried state. The drupe is of a dark colour, 
of a rounded oblong form, 1| inch long, 1^ and 1 inch in its two 
transverse diameters, is supported on a fleshy stipitate support 
^ inch long, and articulated on the globose receptacle of the 
pedicel. The putamen is of a dark colour, thin, and coriaceous 
in consistence, 1^ inch long, 8 lines in diameter one way, 6 lines 
across in the other direction, oblong, with straight sides, narrower 
towards the base, with a shallow grooved line running from that 
point along each of its broader faces for about three-fourths of 
their length, which grooves correspond with an internal trans- 
verse septum (the condyle), that divides the cell for the length 
just stated into two deep marsupial pouches, as in Tiliacora-, 
the cell thus interrupted by the condyle is of a hippocrepical 
shape, with two very long, parallel, approximated arms, each 
semicircular in its cross section. The outer surface of the puta- 
men is densely bristled with innumerable delicately, membrana- 
ceous flat hairs (if they may be so called) about 2 lines long, 
and imbedded in thick fleshy pulp, much in the manner de- 
scribed in Odontocarya {supra, p. 60). The seed Alls the space 
and assumes the same shape ; the integument is membranaceous, 
attached at its duplicature to the condyle, and marked near that 
point by a dark chalaza ; there is no albumen ; the two fleshy 
cotyledons occupy nearly the whole space of the cell, are 2 inches 
long, suddenly and accumbently bent to half that length by their 
sudden duplicature round the septiform condyle; the radicle, 
^ inch long, and therefore only one-sixteenth part of their 
entire length, is narrow and conical, situated at the lower ex- 
tremity of one of the divisions of the cell. 
In the Hookerian Herbarium, under Tinomiscium, I found a 
specimen, without leaves, but with J flowers, which, I consider, 
belongs to the typical species, especially as it is also from 
Khasya, and from a similar elevation (3000-4000 feet). I was 
led to this conclusion by comparing it with another specimen, 
also from Khasya, having leaves of a similar texture and peculiar 
venation, and a habit quite conformable with Hcematocarpus 
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