“MENISPERMACEAE 537 
Faminy 5. MENISPERMACEAE — MooNSEED FAMILY 
Perennial herbaceous vines. Leaves alternate: blades entire or lobed, 
sometimes peltate. Flowers polygamous or dioecious, in racemose or 
paniculate cymes. Calyx of 6 sepals, or fewer or more. Corolla of 4-6, 
ie ae ond pn than : sepals, or wanting. pan ici of. an 
ens, or mo ynoecium of 3-6 distinct carpels, 
berry Tike N - About 55 ae and 150 species, ee natives of the 
tropic 
Corolla none: stigma radiate. 1. CALYCOCARPUM. 
Corolla present: stigma entire or 3-lobed. . 
Pistillate flowers with 4-8 Dons gynoecium of 3-5 
carpels, the stigmas not lobed: androecium of 6-24 
stamens, ne SIDES terminating ong filaments: 
drupe glabro 
Stam n : stigma subulate: drupe red. 2. EPIBATERIUM, 
Stamens 12-24: stigma dilated: oe black. 3. MENISPERMUM. 
Pistillate ‘flowers with 1 petal: gynoecium a single carpel, 
the A n ur geh androecium of 2 or 4 stamens, the 
an na sile on a central peltate column: dru 
pubes 4. CISSAMPELOS. 
i. CALYCOCARPUM Nutt. Vines with relatively large prominently 
lobed leaf-blades. m 6. Filaments nearly linear. Stigma radiate. Seed 
eup-like.—One specie 
Ly aD oo Nutt. Stems twin- 
woods and O various provinces, 
eae e b. Kans., Ill, and Ky.—Spr.—The 
br anches, em ie du are 
dad ene elon ripe green 
plum-like and ripe black fruits Dui on long 
stalks from the brane 
2. EPIBATERIUM Forst. Vines with e small entire or lobed 
leaf-blades. Sepals 6. Petals 6, involute at the Stamens club-like. 
Uo si sessile. Stigmas subulate. cod cochleate. gcc Forsk. Coccu- 
C.]—About 11 species, mostly tropical 
1. E. carolinum (L.) Britton. Leaf-blades 
Hiis ovate to deltoid, 4-12 cm. long: 
flowers white: outer sepals elliptic:  drupes 
zd 1-8 mm. long. ([Cocculus carolmus 
ED-MOONSEED. SNAILSEED.)— Woods, Pann 
and thickets, various provinces, Fla. to 
Kans., and Va.—Sum.—This is a much ls 
woody vine than e Pour Ain ng. eio 
leaf Ie vary entir 
others prominently dd The dens sister 
of bright-red fruits dines ai along the 
branches are very conspicu 
