Cocciilus.] iv. menispermacea; (oliver). 45 



small, axillary, the males fascicled, sessile or shortly pedicellate, the females 

 solitary or in pairs on pedicels of 2-4 lines.— a ellipticus, DC. Syst. Veg. i. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Perrottet, Eeudelot / 

 Worth Central. Kouka, JE. Vogel ! 

 Wile Land. Senuar, Kotschy ! 



A variable plant with a very wide range, extending from the arid regions of India and 

 Afghanistan, through Arabia and Egypt, to the Cape Verd Islands, 

 for synouymy, see ' Flora Indica,' i. 192, of Drs. Hooker and Thomson. 



2 C. villosus, DC. Syst. Veg. i. 525. Leaves ovate-oblong or ellip- 

 tical or subdeltoid or even cordate, obtuse or retuse and minutely mucronate, 

 rarely acute, younger leaves more or less pilose or softly pubescent, on the 

 famuli |-2 in. long, \~\\ in. broad. Petiole 1-3 lines. Male flowers fas- 

 cicled, sessile or shortly panicled. Females usually fascicled or solitary, sub- 

 sessile shortly pedicellate or rarely racemose. — Holopeira torrida, Miers in 

 Ann. Nat. Hist. Ser. 3. xix. 29. 



Mozamb. Distr. Shire river, above the cataracts, Dr. KirJc ! 

 very common and widelv-snread species in India. It occurs also in extratropical 

 "esteru Africa {Curror). * 



6. CISSAMPELOS, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. 37. 



■We fl. : Sepals 4 (or 5). Petals 4 or fewer, much shorter than the 



^Pals united into an entire or divided cup-shaped corolla; anthers 2-5, 



wed into a peltate (4-10-lobulate) disk, polliniferous and dehiscing around 



e ™ a [o ln - Pemale fl. : Sepal (or bracteole) 1, subtending a single entire 



w 4-lobed petal (or sepal). Carpel solitary, with a 3-fid or 3-dentate or 



scT f ? i,Te g ular, y-ct't style. Drupe compressed or subglobose, with the 



be Vl S -^ e near to the hilum - Pi'tamen compressed, the margin tu- 



in^rlr C sic * es ^pressed with a transverse process extending across the 



int l a the ^ ase of tbe cavit y- See d horseshoe-shaped, curved around the 



in i P roc ess of the putamen ; embryo linear, with appressed cotyledons, 



formM quantit y of albumen.— Climbers. Leaves usually cordate or reni- 



i ' Male flowers cymose : female racemose, often clustered in the axils 



ot le afy bracts. 



genus principally confined to the tropics, widely spreading in both hemispheres, 

 the?"* t ? mentose or rarely glabrate. Leaves with the sinus deepest at 



Glabror , onof t} »e petiole (or peltate). Male flowers pilose . . . . \. 0. Pareira. 

 to Uu? ° r .. n ^ arl . v so - Leaves with the lamina usually slightly produced 

 <rU, ? le lu the middle of the sinus. Male flowers glabrous or sub- 



JJ™ 00 ! • 2. C. torulosa. 



■rt.2i$ g labr °us. rather shining aud rtticulate above, paler and 



f&erulous beneath. Tedicels pilose Z. C. insolita. 



corr! bbT Pareira » Unn.; DC. Prod. i. 100. Leaves reniform-cordate, 

 Wd °u rotundate -deltoid, entire or rotundate and broadly and obscurely 

 a tlea\ P | Cent ' sllortl y P i,0 se or tomentose or sometimes nearly glabrous, 

 base •fkv' usuall .V obtuse and mucronate or emarginate, cordate at the 

 tinctlv i P etiol e inserted at the base of the sinus, or more or less dia- 

 i Peltate and truncate. Male flowers minute, in many-flowered axillary 



