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which have fallen away ; and when the upper leaves have also 
disappeared, the branchlet appears like a long raeeme; two to 
six rather stout pedicels radiately divaricate from eaeh axil, 
3-4 lines long, most of which support a single drupe, leaving 
cicatriees of two others which were abortive ; the drupe is 4 lines 
long, 3 lines broad; they are not mature, the enclosed seed 
being shrivelled and undeveloped. 
3. Antitaxis lucida, nob. ; — Cocculus lucidus, Teysen ^ Bennings, 
Nat. Tijdsch. iv. 397 ; — ramulis subtenuibus, subflexuosis, 
glabris ; foliis oblongis, imo rotundiusculis aut valde obtusis, 
apice breviter attenuatis et canaliculatis, acumine obtusulo, 
ultra basin penuinerviis, uervis semiimmersis, utrinque 7, 
divaricatis, inter se arcuatim nexis, transversim venosis et 
reticulatis, eoriaeeis, utrinque glaberrimis, supra lucidis, 
subtus opace eoncoloribus, marginibus cartilagineis, subrufis 
et prominulis; petiolo subtenui, apice paulo incrassato et 
ruguloso, limbo 6-8-plo breviore ; pedicellis fructiferis axil- 
laribus, 4, fasciculatis, abortu paucioribus, petiolum sub- 
aequantibus; drupa abortu solitaria, globosa, exsicca, glabra, 
nitida, putamine chartaeeo, 1-loculare, condylo interno, late- 
ral!, paulo intruso, subobsoleto, semine subgloboso, ad latus 
ventrale sinu parvo notato. — In Java: v. s. in herb. Hook, ? , 
in hort. Bogor. eult. (T. Anderson). 
A plant with subflexuous slender branches, and with axils 
^-| inch apart: the leaves are 3-3| inches long, 17-18 lines 
broad, on a petiole 5-6 lines long ; the pedicels are 5 lines long, 
each bearing on its summit a single drupe, with the cicatrices 
of two abortive ovaries ; the drupe is 4^ lines in diameter, with 
a thin, very brittle, chartaceous putamen, from whieh the meso- 
carp is with difficulty separable; the putamen is slightly in- 
dented on the ventral side, where it is provided with an almost 
obsolete slightly intruding condyle; the seed which fills the 
cell is subreniformly globular, with a short sinus where it is 
attaehed to the condyle, and where a broad chalaza of the mem- 
branaeeous integument faces it ; the exalbuminous embryo fills 
the eell ; when swollen to their full size, the eotyledons are very 
large, thick, fleshy, and subreniform, accumbent, with a very 
minute superior radicle. 
4. Antitaxis longifolia, nob. ; — Cocculus longifolius, DC. MS . ; 
— foliis lanceolatis, imo rotundatis, ultra medium sensim 
attenuatis, acumine angusto, paululo emarginato, submem- 
branaceis, imparipinninerviis, nervis utrinque 10-11, tenuis- 
simis, areuatim nexis, supra viridibus, tenuiter reticulatis, 
nitidis, subtus pallidioribus, glabris ; petiolo tenuissimo, apiee 
