814 DIOECIA HEXANDRIA. Menispermum. 
clavate. Anthers two-lobed. Pistil none. FEMALE FLOW- 
ERS on a different plant. Calyx, the three exterior leaflets 
minute; and the three interior ones roundish, many times 
larger than the former. Petals six, ovate-oblong, entire. 
Stamens none, but six, short, fleshy filaments, scarcely half 
so long as the petals. Germs three, elevated on a hemisphe- 
ric receptacle, Berries as in the former species, 
At differs from Thunberg’s Menispermum trilobum, in hav- 
ing the petals or scales of the nectary entire, and the interior 
three calycine leaflets spreading; whereas in M. tribolum, 
the former are said to be split at the — and the corol 
campanulate. 
8. M. hirsutum. Willd. iv. p, 829, 
Shrubby, twining, from broad-cordate, to lmear-cordate, 
se Male flowers racemed ; 3 female money solitary. 
Hind, Hier or Dier. 
Wal-tiedde. Gert. Sem. ii. t. 180. 
This is the only species I have yet met with, that I can 
compare with M. myosotoides, Can they be the same? 
Cocculus indicus foliis aristolochese subtus lanuginosis, 
fructu minore, Pluk, Alma, 61. t. 384. f. 5. agrees bet- 
ter with my plant than either fig. 7 or 3. of the same table. 
Teling. Doosra tiga. ; 
A common twining species, found in most oe Ie del 
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_ Stem woody, but slender, and twining. eube) sede 
short-petioled, narrow-cordate, or ovate, three-nerved, cover- 
ed with much soft down, about one or two inches long, and 
_ broad in proportion. Mate. Racemes terminal, iliforin; 
interrupted, leafy. Calyx six-leaved. \ Petals six, linear, 
emarginate, Stamens asin M. cordifolium, only shorter. Fe- 
MALE. Peduncles solitary, one-flowered, Calyx and corol 
as in the male. Germs three, each semi-ovate, one-celled, 
containing one ovulum attached to the middle of the inside 
of the cell. Berries from one to three, one most common, 
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