518 LXIII, PASSIFLOREE (MASTERS). [ Ophiocaulon. 
pitted, surrounded by a fleshy aril. Albumen fleshy; cotyledons orbi- 
cular, leafy, flat——Climbing shrubs with woody stems and slender 
branches, often containing a gummy juice. Leaves alternate, stalked, 
smooth, entire or lobed, with a single gland at the apex of the petiole. 
Tendrils axillary, thickened at the apex. Flowers small, greenish, 
arranged in stalked axillary cymose panicles. Pedicels cirrhose. 
A small genus, separated from Modecca by reason of its small flowers, deeply-parted 
calyx, obscure corona, and sessile stigma. 
Leaves rounded, rarely lobed, white beneath and speckled with ; 
reddish spots. Petiolar gland solitary . ck 6 ee cissampeloides. 
Leaves roundish, 3-lobed, paler beneath. Petiolar glands2 . 2. O. gummifer. | 
Leaves oblong-lanceolate, rarely obscurely lobed see 3. O. cynanchifolius. 
1. O. cissampeloides, Mast. A climber with terete ash-coloured 
branches. Leaf-stalk an inch or more in length, with a single gland at 
the summit; leaves membranous, glabrous, green or marbled on the 
upper surface, white below and sprinkled with black spots, suborbicular, 
abrupt or somewhat cordate at the base, obtuse or slightly acute at the 
apex, rarely obscurely 3-lobed; tendrils axillary, thickened at the end ; 
sterile, or rarely floriferous. Inflorescence many-flowered, terminal oF 
axillary, cymosely panicled, usually distinct from and shorter than the 
tendrils. Male .: Calyx campanulate, a quarter of an inch of 
more in diameter, deeply divided into 5 ovate-lanceolate entire lobes, 
marked with linear spots. Petals 5, shorter and narrower than the 
calyx-lobes, fringed at the edges, attached at the base of the calyx. 
Filaments very short, subulate ; anthers linear, obtuse, 4-lobed. Rudi- 
ment of the pistil minute. Female fl.: Staminodes very short. . Frut 
of the size of a pigeon’s egg and upwards, 3-valved, valves obtuse, 
coriaceous, brownish orange, ultimately somewhat tubercled, su! 
rounded at the base by the persistent calyx.—Modecca cissampeloides, 
Planch. in Fl. Nigrit. 365. 
Feely ya Guinea. Fernando Po, Vogel! Mann! Nun river, Barter! Gaboon, 
ann 
Lower Guinea. Angola, Pungo Andongo and Golungo Alto, Dr. Welwitsch! 
The leaves are somewhat variable, and particularly on non-flowering branches where 
they are sometimes deeply 3-5-lobed, and the lobes themselves pinnately divided. 
2. Oo. gummifer, Mast. A woody climbing plant, with green Cy lin- 
drical striated branches containing a gummy juice. Leaf-stalks long; 
with a gland on either side at the apex; leaves 1—4 in. long, 14-5 
wide, shorter than the stalks, smooth, membranous, paler on the under 
surface, roundish, abrupt or wedge-shaped at the base, palmately 
3-lobed, lobes shallow, ee entire, sinuses wide. Tendrils axillary, as 
long as the leaf-stalks, thickened at the extremity, floriferous in the 
middle, Male fl.: Calyx 4 in. long ; lobes subcoriaceous, linear, § otter, 
the covered edges thin, crenulate, the free edges entire. Petals 5, linear 
oblong, entire, 1-nerved, spotted, attached to the base of the caY* 
half the length of the sepals and narrower. Stamens 5; filaments 
short, awl-shaped, erect, coherent at the base. Rudiment of the ps 
minute. Female fl.: Fruit coriaceous, ovoid, 1-2 in. long, Y ellowls™ 
