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* Dnipes with a terminal or subterrainal style-scar. 



Sepals 12 ; filaments connate 1. Aspidocarya. 



Sepals 6; filaments connate 2. Parab.ena. 



Sepals 6; petals 6; filaments free •. . 3. Tinospoka. 



Sepals 9; petals 6; filaments free 4. Tinomiscium. 



Sepals 6; petals 0; filaments free 6. Fibraurea. 



* Drupes with a subbasal style-scar. 



Sepals 6 ; filaments all connate 6. Anamirta. ; 



Sepals 9 ; outer filaments free . 7. Coscinium. 



Tribe II. Cocculeee. Flowers 3-merous. Ovaries usually 3. Drupe 

 ^ita a subbasal rarely subterminal style-scar. Seed horse-shoe shaped, 

 albumen copious ; embryo slender, cotyledons linear or slightly dilated. 



Petals 6, minute; ovaries 3-12 ; style subulate . . • . . '9^' Tiliacora. ^ • : 



petals 5-8; ovaries 3; styles compressed . . . * .' '. . ! ?. Limacia.. 



petals 6; ovaries 3-6; styles subulate ........ 10. Cocculus. 



Petals 6; ovaries 3 ; styles forked 11- Pericampylus. 



Tribe III, Cissampelideee. Flowers 3-5-merou3. Ovaries usually 

 solitary. Drupe with a subbasal style-scar ; endocarp dorsally muricate or 

 ^Climate. Seed horse-shoe shaped, albumen scanty ; embryo linear, cotyle- 



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s appressed. 



Sepals 6-10, free ; petals of <J and 9 3-5 free . . . • • • 12. Stephania. 



°epals 4, free ; petals of (J 4 connate, of ? 1 ...;.. 13. Cissamfelos. 



^p»l8 4-8, conuate ; petals of <J of 4-8 connate, of 9 1 . . 14. Cyclea. 



otpals 4-8, connate ; petals of <J 0. of 9 2 saccate .... 15. Lophophyllum. 



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TkibeIV. Pachyg-oneae. i^foi^^ers usually 3-merous. Oranes usually 



L ^^fPes with a subbasal or ventral style-scar. Seed curved hooked or 

 "^xed, albumen ; ' cotyledons thick fleshy. 



. |«Pals, petals and stamens, 6 each 16. Pachygose. 



^Pa 8 and petals 6 each ; stamens 9 ........ 17. Pycnarrhena. 



oepa 8 9-12; petals and stamens 6 each '. 18. Hjematocarpus. 



. °«Pals 8 ; petals 2 ; stamens 4 19. Aj 



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1. ASPIDOCARYA, H. f. & T. 



lrrt/'°^^^^- ^iowers in slender panicles. Sepals 12, 2-4-seriate, inner 

 ton nf ;t, ^'^«^* 6, short, cuneate. Male fl. : Anthers 6, encirclmg the 

 Z^n^ staminal column, bursting transversely. Femai^ &.: Stami- 

 X>ZLa .7^*^- Ovaries 3 : stigmas subcapitate. Drupes dorsally corn- 

 not S' ^W^-scar terminal : endocarp much compressed, keeled dorsally, 

 ceou, K ^d ^''^rgins winged, toothed. Seed oblong, flat ; cotyledons foha- 

 '' ^ divaricate, then parallel. 



ulrh ^^Ifera, //./ ^. t. Fl.Ind. 180 : leaves subpeltate ovate-cordate, 

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•otnetS „• l''"^."'"' t^'-^^^- ^<'«^«« 4-« bv 3-6 in., long-acuminate tip_ obtuBe, base 

 t^ in n,.K '^''"^t«' "ervcs beneath hairy ; petiole 3-4 in., cylmdnc. ,- PmxdeB 

 ^°«arpir'i?''*-. ^^P°^ greenish, ciliate. Pdah concave. Drus^ \-\ m. , en- 

 f woouy^ fragile. ,,,•■'-- * • 



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,. ,,^ ;;,X ^ARABaSNA, Miers. ^;J^^.-■ /'M u,:',-;^ 



Sttbi^'^ J^ic^ milky. Flowel^m axillary dichotMilos cym^. ^ ^Js 6^ 

 "^^ Petals much amnllpr Matv fl r Anthers 6. horizontal, encircling 



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