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Cissampelos. DIOECIA MONADELPHIA, 84) 
heads. Jnvolucres subulate, Calyx six-leaved ; leaflets obo- 
vate. Petals three, obovate. Filaments single, colummar, 
with a peltate apex, round the margin of which is the pol- 
leniferous groove, FEMALE FLowers on a different plant. 
Umbels axillary, solitary, much smaller and shorter-pedun- 
cled than in the male, compound ; wméed/ets from six to ten, 
minute, six or twelve-flowered. Involucres and involucrets 
small, subulate, one to each division, Calyx of one small, 
oval leaflet, pale yellow. Corol two.petalled ; petals oppo- 
site, roundish, concave, longer than the calyx, of a deep 
orange yellow. Germ superior, long-ovate, one-celled, con- 
taining asingle ovulum, attached to the gibbous side of the 
cell, Style short, Stigma from four to five-cleft. Berry 
obovate, of the size of a pea, having the remains of the style 
remaining near the base, succulent, smooth, red, one-celled. 
Seed solitary, doubled like a horse shoe, with the convexity 
up, and so exactly like Gertner’s Wal-tiedde, voi, ii. p. 488. 
zt, 180, f. 12. that it may well be referred to this. Integu- 
ments two, the exterior one subnuciform, two-valyed. Peris- 
perm conform to the seed. Embryo nearly the length of 
the perisperm, inverse, linear, uncinate. Radicle with the 
apex under the stigma, 
: acide | Sobten Ha R. , 
Shrubby, twining, Leaves peltate, cordate, entire, nine- 
nerved. Umbels compound, Male umbellets globular 
heads of flowers, with a six-leaved calyx, and three-petalled 
corol ; in the female the calyx is three-leaved, and the corol 
three-petalled, 
Beng. Neemocka. 
Pada-valli, or Pada kelangu, ‘Rheed. Mal. vii. t. ‘AQ, is 
like the female plant. 
Stephania rotunda, Lourier. Cochinch, 747. 
Menispermum peltatum, Willd, iv. 827, 
A native of Bengal, Bevene.s time the eee of the 
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