104 vii. Menispermace.e. [. Peripelasma . 
half as long. Sepals outer narrow .lanceolate-acuminate, inner 
wider, with 2 ribs on each, finely dotted, connate at base. Stamens 
shorter, incurved. Hob. Lowland woods. Selangor, Kwala 
Lumpur and Batu Tiga (Ridley). 
3. TINOMISCIUM, Miers. 
Big liane. Leaves coriaceous or membranous, 3- to 5-nerved. 
Fig. 9. — Tinomiscium petiolare. 
Racemes solitary or fascicled from the old wood. Flowers white. 
Males, sepals 9 to 12, 3 outer bract-like, 6 inner narrow oblong. 
Petals 6 shorter oblong or orbiculate. Stamens 6, opposite petals 
and as long, free; filaments thick; anther-cells immersed; abortive 
carpels occasionally present. Females, petals and sepals similar; 
staminodes 6, lanceolate beaked. Carpels 3, glabrous sub-ovoid. 
Stigma peltate cerebriform. Drupes 3 or fewer, oblong to ovoid, 
compressed. Seed obovate with large flat cotyledons. Species 
6 to 8, Malayan, 
