814 DiOECiA HEXANDUiA. Menispemmm, 



clavate. jl7ithers two-]ohe(\. Pistil none. Female flow- 

 ers on a different plant. Cahjx, 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. 



It differs from Thunberg's Menispermum irilobum, in hav- 

 ing the petals or scales of the nectary entire, and the interior 

 three calycine leaflets spreading; whereas in M. triholum, 

 the former are said to be split at the apex, and tlie corol 

 campanulate. 



8. M. hirsiitum. Willd. w.p. 829. 



Shrubby, twining, from broad-cordate, to linear-cordate, 

 downy. Malejlowers racemed -female axillary, solitary. 



Hind. Hier or Dier. 



Wal-tiedde. Gcert. 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 aristolochece subtus lanuginosis, 

 fructu minore. Pink. Alma.Q\.t. 384. jf. 5. agrees bet- 

 ter with my plant than either jig. 7 or 3. of the same table. 



Teling. Doosra tiga. 



A common twining species, found in most hedges. It flow- 

 ers during the wet season. 



Stem woody, but slender, and twining. Leaves alternate, 

 short-petioled, narrow-cordate, or ovate, three-nerved, cover- 

 ed with much soft down, about one or two inches long, and 

 broad in proportion. Male. Racemes terminal, filiform, 

 interrupted, leafy. Calyx six-leaved. Petals six, linear, 

 emarginate. Stamejis as in M. cordifolinm, only shorter. Fe- 

 MALE Pec?MWc/es solitary, one-flowered. Cahjx and corol 

 ^» m the male. Germs three, each semi-ovate, one-celled, 

 containinir one ovulum attached to the middle of the inside 

 of the cell. Berries from one to three, one most common, 



