104 V. MENiSPERMACEiE. (Hook. f. & Thoms.) [Cissampelos. 



large reniform or orbicular bracts, drupes subglobose hirsute. DC. Prodr. i. 

 100: //./. <L' T. Fl Ind. 198; Miers Contrib, iii. 139, C. caapeba, Linn.; 

 Roxh. FL Ind. iii. 842. C. convolvulacea WUld.; Wall. Cat 4979; W. d: A. 

 Prodr. i. 14 ; Roxh. Ic. 842. C. orbiculata, discolor, and hirsuta, -o«f«- / 

 DC. U 101. G liernandifoUa, Wall Cat 4979, partly. C. obtecta, M 

 Cat 4981 C. diversa, elata, grallatoria, eriantha, and delicatula, Miers Ic. 

 187-197. C. subpeltata, Thwaites Enum. 13 and 399, Miers I.e. 195. Memsp, 

 orbiculatum, Linn. Cocculus orbiculatus, DC Ic. 98. C. villosus, WaU, 

 Cat 4957 in part, and C. membranaceus, 4967 {diseased state). 



Tropical and subtropical India, from Sindh and the Punjab to Ceylon and Sin- 

 CAPORE. — Djstrib. Cosmopolitan in warm regions. 



A loftj climber ; branchlets rarely glabrous, i eaves 1-4 in. diam., usually peltate, 

 obtuse and mucronate, rarely acute, base truncate or more or less cordate ; petiole 

 equalling the leaf or longer. Male cymes ^-H in. (sometimes replaced by a shoot with 

 fiiuall leaves and small axillary cymes), axillary or nearly so, usually 2-3 superposed, 

 decompound ; bracts minute, rarely foliaceous ; peduncle slender, pubescent tomentose 

 or hirsute. Fern, racemes 1-2, axiilary; bracts lax or densely imbricate, usually hoarj, 

 Bonaetimes petioled ; pedicels very short. Ovaries rarely glabrate. Drupe J in. diauij, 

 scarlet. — A careful reconsideration of the materials discussed in " Flora Indica, wita 

 many additional specimens, and an eight years* further familiarity in India with bota 

 native and cultivated forms, convince us that the view taken in the above work (whicii 

 is that of Eichler. Bentham, and Thwaites) is not invalidated by the vigorous attacks 

 of our Iriend Mr. Miers. 



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14. CTCX.EA, Arnott. 



Climbinfr shrubs. 



Flowers in axillary panicles; 



Petals 4-8, 



Leaves usually peltate. 

 Male fl, : Sepals 4-8, connate into an inflated 4-5-lobed calyx, 

 more or less connate into a 4-5-lobed corolla. Anthers 4-6, connate, 

 cro\STiing the staminal column, bursting transversely. Fem. fl. : Sepal^ 1» 

 oblong. Petal 1, orbicular. Ovary 1 ; style short, 3-5-lobed, lobes radiating. 

 Drupe ovoid, style-scar subbasal ; endocarp norseslioe-snaped, dorsally 

 tubercled, sides convex 2-locellate (as in Limacia). Seed curved ; cotyledous 

 slender, ^-terete, appressed. — Disteib. Tropical Asia. 



1. C. Bunnanni, Miers Contrib. iii. 239, t. 121 ; leaves peltate eloB- 

 gate-deltoid acuminate base cordate or subsagittate subrepand, C3dp 

 subglobose 6-8-lobed, corolla urceolate subentire. II. f. d: T. Fl. hid. 201- 

 Cocculus Burmanni, DC, Prodr. i. 96. Clypea Burmanni, W. & A. rw'j- 

 in jyart; Barm. Fl. Zeyl., t. 101. Rhaptomeris Burmanni, Miers tn IWi 

 Ann. Ser. 2, vii. 41. 



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CoNCAN, Gibson; and Ceylon, ascending to 2600 ft. 



Branches pilose or glabrate. Leaves 2-4 by |-2 in., thin, coriaceous, shining above, 

 usually pubescent beneath ; petiole 4-1^ in. iWicZf* equalling or exceeding tl^e leaves^ 

 many-tlowered, pubescent. Male fl. and drupe pilose. Calyx much exceeding tn 

 corolla. 



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2. C.peltata, //./. d: T. Fl.hid. 201 ; leaves peltate deltoid acute or 

 subacute, calyx campanulate 4-lobed, corolla an irregularly 4-lobed cup- 

 Miers Contrib. iii. 236. C. barbata, versicolor, Arnottii, laxiflora ^^'f 

 debiliflora, Miers I.e. 237-242. Menisp. peltatum, LamJc. Cocculus peltatij^* 

 DC. Prodr. i. 96. Cissampelos discolor, Wall. Cat. 4892, in i>«^ ^* 

 barbata, Wall. Cat. 4978. Clypea Burmanni, W. dc A. Prodr. i. 74 inp^^ 

 Cvclea^ Burmanni, Arnott in Wight III. i. 22. Bhaptomeris Buman^' 

 Miers in Tayl. Ann. Ser. 2, viL 41. RlieedeHort Mat vii. t. 49. 



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