22 ILLUSTRATIONS OF INDIAN BOTANY. 
enera, the first species, C. harnandifolia, being a true species of Clypea, while C. Burmanni, 
bt form the tiie, of an adie x genus, but more nearly approaching Cissampelos, er 
Clypea : and for which Dr. Arnott proposes the name of Cyclea ; distinguishing it from bot P 
by the male calyx being of one piece, campanulate, 4-lobed ; and collaterally by the absence o 
the foliacious bracts at the base of the female pedicels. To each of these genera, an additional 
species has recently been added. That to Clypea, which Dr. A. has designated C. Wightii,aspe- 
cles [ found at Courtallum, is at once distinguished from C. harnandifolia, by the male flowers 
being all collected into a single capitulum, in place of forming an umbel of 5or 6 long peduncled 
capitula. ope soon to publish outline figures, of these species, as well as of all those, 
ascertained to be endowed with useful properties. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE 7. 
1, Flowering shoot of Cocculus macrocarpus, male 6. The same, one-half of the testa removed to show 
plants. the seed, Sore: 
2. Panicle of ripe fruit, natural size. 7. The seed in situ, cut longitudinally, to show the 
. Male flowers, showing the sepals, and anthers, form of the cotyledons. ; 
one with the sepals, slightly 3-lobed at the apex, the 8. The same removed from the testa, the pointed or 
other a smaller flowered variety, with the sepals superior extremely, the radical—al/ more or less mag- 
entire. ified. 
4. A detached stamen, with its adjoining petal. BSERVATION.—The cotyledons are enclosed in a 
9. A dried mature carpel, as seen in the herbarium. thin coating of albumen, not shown in the plate. 
VI.—BERBERIDEZ. 
consisting for the most part, of small trees and shrubs, rarely 
mple or pinnate, leaves ; the margines furnished with spino 
hermaphrodite, racemose or solitary ; yellow, white, or reddish, 
r = pals, and placed opposite / to them; within, often 
urnished with scales or glands at the base. Th f 
tals, and are placed opposite them; the filaments short 
being slightly touched on the inner su e, they spring forward with elastic 
force, and : ers two-celled, the cells bursting with 
elasticity by recurved valves* from the b and not according to the more usual 
orm, by pores or a longitudinal slit. Ovary superior, one-celled, with several ovules, usually 
Springing from the base, erect: style short : stigma thick, orbiculate. Fruit a fleshy berry, or 
indihescent, capsule, with few, 
: exarillate, erect, albumenous, seed; albumen flesh horn 
with the straight embryo in the axis. ; , ¢ : eshy, or norny, 
Arrinities. The affinities of this order, like those of Menisper - 
ful, and uncertain, much diversity of opinion prevailing, opine ldegraone Estar Soiakatd 
Generally they are considered very closely allied to Menispe aceae, on account of their ternary 
flower, and the stamens being opposite the petals. Jn both 
petals are opposite the stamens: 
— a the latter, is different, 
seiinl ee eae ree, (the currant and gooseberry 
wget lisa Hepes cho ~ structure was overlooked by the draughtsman, owing to his 
place of a full grown flower, 8 © irom a young stamen taken from an unexpanded flower bud, in 
