Cissampelos. dioecia monadeli>hia. 841 



heads. Involucres subulate. Calyx six-leaved ; leaflets obo- 

 vate. Petals three, obovate. /^/amen/s single, columniar, 

 with a peltate apex, round the margin of which is the pol- 

 Icuiferous groove. Female Flowers on a different plant. 

 Umbels axillary, solitary, much smaller and shorter-ped un- 

 cled than in the male, compound ; nmhellets from six to ten, 

 minute, six or twelve-flowered. Involucres and involucrets 

 small, subulate, one to each division. Ca/^jc 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 a single ovulum, attached to the gibbous side of the 

 cell. Style short. Stiyma 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 horseshoe, with the convexity 

 up, and so exactly like Gcertner's Wal-tiedde.vo/. i'l. p. 488. 

 t. 180. J'. 12. that it may well be referred to this. Inteyu- 

 ments two, the exterior one subnuciform, two-valved. Peris- 

 perm conform to the seed. Embryo nearly the length of 

 the perisperm, inverse, linear, uncinate. Radicle with the 

 apex under the stigma. 



2. C. hexandra. R. 



Shrubby, twining. Leaves peltate, cordate, entire, nine- 

 nerved. Umbels compound. Male umbellets globular 

 heads of flowers, with a six-leaved calyx, and three-pefalled 

 corol ; in the female the calyx is three-leaved, and the corol 

 three-petalled. 



Beng. Neemooka. 



Pada-valli, or Pada kelangu, Rheed. Mai. vii. t. 49. is 

 like the female plant. 



Stepliania rotunda. Lourier. Cochinch. 747. 



Mcnispennum peltatum. Willd. iv. 827. 



A native of Benjial. Flowering time the beffinninff of the 



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