Tinospora.] 
VII. MENISPERMACE.E 
(1) T. crispa Miers, Conlrib. Bot. iii. 34; Hook. fit. F.B.I. i. 96. 
Climber with fawn colour papery warted bark. Leaves ovate 
to oblong-ovate acuminate, base truncate or very slightly cordate, 
thin light green, 3 t<? 3’5 in. long, 3 to -15 in. wide; petioles 3*5 in. 
long. Raceme slender lax. Flowers small green. Males, sepals 3 
outer smaller, 3 inner elliptic much larger. Petals very small, 
involute oblong ovate. Stamens short 6. Females, pistils 3, 
sub-cylindric. Fruit oblong *3 in. long, yellow or red. Seed 
smooth. Hab. Cultivated ground, Singapore. Malacca, Pulau 
Jawa (Griffith); Penang, near Waterfall (Curtis); Perlis, Tebing 
Tinggi. Distrib. India. Introduced here and more or less culti¬ 
vated ; very rarely flowering. 
(2) T. macrocarpa Diels, Pflanzenreich, Menispermacece 141. 
Stem as in T. crispa. Leaves ovate-oblong, base truncate or 
cordate, acuminate, 3‘5 in. long, 375 in. wide. Flowers unknown. 
Prupes oblong cylindric, 1*5 in. long, 7 in. wide; endocarp bony 
sub-ellipsoid, somewhat warty. Hab. Malacca (Maingay). 
Possibly T. uliginosa Miers, of the Malay Islands, as King suggests, of 
which I have seen no plants. 
(3) T. Curtisii Ridl. Journ. Bot. 1920, p. 148. 
Climber; bark pale, warty. Leaves elliptic ovate, base round 
minutely cordate, sub-coriaceous; nerves 3 pairs with reticulations, 
elevate beneath; 4 in. long, 3 in. wide; petioles 1 in. long. In¬ 
florescence laxly panicled over 12 in. long; branches 3 to 5 i n - l° n g> 
minutely puberulous. Flowers *12 in. wide, solitary and a few 
in short racemes. Pedicels very short. Bracts minute acuminate. 
Male flowers, sepals 3, round and wide. Petals longer lanceolate 
acuminate. Stamens 6, filaments short broad linear. Female 
flowers and fruit unknown. Hab. Penang, Batu Feringhi, near 
the beach (Curtis). 
Slender v'oody climber. Leaves thin sub-herbaceous, elliptic 
oblong cuspidate, base round; nerves from base 3. Panicles 
axillary of long slender racemes, many-flowered. Flowers small. 
Sepals" 6, connate in a campanulate tube, lobes long-acuminate, 
outer series narrower and thicker than inner ones. Petals o. 
Stamens 6, base of filament thickened and winged, upper part 
slender incurved; anther-cells 2, discrete. Pistillode minute, 
triquetrous. Species 1. 
(1) Pi polyanthum Ridl. Journ. Boi. 1920, p. 147. 
Glabrous. Leaves trinerved with 6 pairs from the midrib, 
reticulations wade elevate beneath, 6 in. long, 2 in. wide; petioles 
1 in. long. Panicles 12 in. long with many slender racemes, 8 or 9 in. 
long. Flowers scattered. Pedicels slender *i in. long. Bracts 
