Limacia .] ra, menispermace^e. 109 
(1) L. velutina Miers, in Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. Ser. 2. vii. 43 ; 
Hook. fit. F.B.I. i. 100; King, Journ. /Is. Soc. Beng. l.c. 383. 
A moderate woody climber; branches and leaves covered with 
golden fur. Leaves variable in size, elliptic to oblanceolate 
acuminate or cuspidate, base blunt or shortly narrowed, sub- 
coriaceous; nerves 5 to 6 pairs; 2*5 in. to 5 in. long by i*6 to 
2 in. wide ; nerves and midrib and edges at least hairy ; petioles 
•5 to 1*5 in. long. Cymes axillary, several together or solitary, 
about *5 in. long, golden-tomentose. Flowers small crowded at 
the top. Sepals ovate eventually spreading tomentose outside. 
Petals clawed embracing the stamens. All yellow. Stamens 6 
pilose; anther-cells brown. Carpels in female flower black-hairy. 
Stigma pale grey. Drupe ovoid flattened, orange yellow, x in. 
long, pulp orange brown. Seed dark brown. Hab. Common in 
open country, secondary jungle and thickets. Singapore very 
common. Malacca, Selangor, Perak, Penang. 
var. paroifolia Ridl. A form with all the leaves small 2 to 
2*5 in. long and *8 to 1*3 in. wide. Cymes numerous 5 or 6 
together. Penang, Government Hill at 2500 ft. altitude. Distrib. 
Cochin-China, Siam, Tenasserim and Malay Islands. 
(2) L. oblonga Miers, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. Ser. 2. vii. 43; 
Hook. fit. F.B.I. i. 100; King, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. l.c. 382. 
Rather slender woody climber; stems yellowish-tomentose 
eventually glabrous. Leaves coriaceous, very variable, the terminal 
ones lanceolate acuminate, 3 in. long by 1 in. wide, the lower ones 
broadly oblong to elliptic sub-acute, base rounded glabrous, 5*5 
to 8 in. long, 4*5 to 5 in. wide; nerves 3 or 4 pairs prominent beneath 
as are the secondaries and the very fine reticulations; petioles 
75 to 1-25 in. long. Panicles slender 4 to 5 in. long, extra-axillary 
in lines of fascicles of 2 to 4, pubescent. Flowers small numerous, 
greenish yellow. Outer sepals lanceolate, inner sub-orbicular. 
Petals boat-shaped. Stamens glabrous. Drupe very excentric, 
over *5 in. long, obovoid flattened. Hab. Thickets in open country. 
Malacca, Bukit Bruang and Pringit (Griffith). Selangor, Kwala 
Lumpur; Rawang (Kloss). Perak, Goping (Kunstler). Penang up 
to 1200 ft. altitude. Government Hill, common. Native name: 
Akar China. 
10. TILIACORA, Colebr. 
Climbing shrubs. Leaves penninerved; petioles short. Panicles 
usually short. Male flowers 6 to 12. Sepals, outer ones bract¬ 
like, inner larger obovate elliptic. Petals 4 to 6 minute obcordate. 
Stamens 9 to 3, free or more or less connate. Females, staminodes o. 
Carpels 30 to 6. Drupe gibbous ovoid, compressed grooved on 
both sides. Albumen ruminate or scanty or o. Species 15, mostly 
African, 3 Indian to Penang. 
