MENISPERMACEjE. 



added to every 10 quarters of malt. It is however a deadly poison in 

 over doses. A case is quoted by Dr. Christison of soup, seasoned 

 with it by mistake, having produced sickness, vomiting, with pain in 

 the stomach and bowels in nine persons, one of whom it is added died 

 in 12 days. 



CLYPEA. 



Dioecious. Calyx of 6 sepals in a double series, with 3-6 

 close pressed bracteoles. $ . Stamens united into a central 

 column, dilated at the apex, bearing several 2-celled anthers ; 

 cells opening horizontally, placed end to end, and forming a ring 

 round the top of the column. $> . Ovary solitary. Stigmas 3, 

 (or rarely 6 ?). Drupe obliquely reniform ; nut compressed, 

 wrinkled round the margin. Seed solitary uncinate. Albumen 

 fleshy. Embryo terete, of the same shape, and about as long as 

 the seed. Leaves peltate. Panicles axillary, both male and 

 female without cordate bracteas. W. and A. 



769. C. Burmanni W. and A. i. 14. — Cocculus Burmanni and 

 peltatus DC. syst. i. 516. Menispermum peltatum Lam. diet. 

 iv. 96. (Rheede vii. t. 49. Burm. zeyl. t. 101. Waltiedde 

 Gcertn.fr. ii. t. 180.) — Malabar, Coromandel and Ceylon. 



Root long and thick like that of a common Carrot in form and size. 

 Stems slender, green and hairy. Leaves triangular, acuminated, mu- 

 cronate, slightly cordate at the base, upper side shining and sprinkled 

 with a few hairs, under more or less densely pubescent; panicles nar- 

 row, elongated, much longer than the leaves ; branches alternate. — 

 Root employed in intermittent fevers and liver complaints; it is ex- 

 tremely bitter and used against dysentery and haemorrhoids in Malabar. 



CISSAMPELOS. 



Dioecious. $ . Sepals 8 in a triple series, the 4 inner united 

 into a cup, with usually an entire margin. Stamens united into 

 a slender column dilated at the apex, bearing two 2-celled an- 

 thers opening horizontally ; cells placed end to end and forming 

 a 4-lobed 4-celled annulus round the top of the column. $ . Ca- 

 lyx of 2 lateral sepals, 1 petal in front of the other. Ovary 

 solitary. Stigmas 3. Drupe obliquely reniform ; nut com- 

 pressed, wrinkled round its margin. Seed solitary, uncinate. 

 Embryo long, terete, enclosed in a fleshy albumen. — Twining 

 shrubs. Leaves peltate or cordate, mucronulate at the apex. 

 Racemes axillary ; of the males usually trichotomously branched 

 and somewhat corymbose, with subulate small bracteas, or with 

 none at all ; of the females simple, elongated, bearing broad al- 

 ternate foliaceous bracteas, with several 1 -flowered pedicels in 

 their axil. W. and A. chiefly. 



770. C. Pareha Linn. sp.pl. 1473. Swartz obs. 380. t. 10. f. 5. 

 Lam. illustr. t. 830. Woodv. t. 82. DC. syst. i. 533. — {Plum. 



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