40 MenispermacecB. \Anamirta. 



Herm. Mus. 27. Fl. Zeyl. n. 358 (referred by Linn. Sp. PI. 1033, to 

 Dioscorea alata). Thw. Enum. 12. C. P. 1053. 



Fl. Brit. Ind. i. 97. Miers Contrib. Bot. t. gi. Bentl. and Trim. 

 Med. PI. t. 12. 



Stems climbing to a great height, and sending down very- 

 long thread-like aerial roots, closely vvorted, shoots glabrous \ 

 1. small, 1^-2^ in., broadly cordate, acute or acuminate,, 

 glabrous, thin, 5-7-nerved, petioles 1-2 in., slender, thickened 

 and curved at base ; fl. large for the order, f in. diam., male in 

 clusters of 1-6 on the slender branches of a drooping panicle 

 exceeding the leaves, female in shorter racemes, solitary ; 

 male fl. : — stam. free, but wrapped in the pet; female fl. : — 

 stigma dilated, laciniate ; ripe carp. 1-3, size of a pea, some- 

 what ovoid, apiculate, smooth, red. 



Low country ; common in the dry districts. Batticaloa ; Kalpitiya ; 

 Hewahetta ; Jafifna ; Mannar. Fl. Feb.; greenish-yellow. Fruit red. 

 Also in Southern India. 



2. ANAMZRTA, Colebr. 



Woody climbers ; fl. in panicles from old wood ; sep. 6, 

 equal, imbricate ; pet. o ; male fl. : — stam. numerous, filaments 

 combined into a central column; fem. fl. : — carp. 3-5, on a 

 stout globular gynophore, staminodes 10, in a ring ; ripe carp. 

 1-3, globose, style-scar lateral, endocarp brittle, deeply pro- 

 jected inwards on ventral side and reflexed in the cavity 

 thus formed making it 2-celled ; seed reniform, embryo with 

 narrow cotyledons in axis of abundant, not ruminated, endo- 

 sperm. — Sp. 7 (Miers), only the following one in FL B. Ind. 



A. paniculata, Colebr. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. 66 (1821). 

 Titta-wel, ^'. 



A. ioxifcra^ Miers, Contrib. iii. 51. Thw. Enum. 12. C.P. 2722, 

 Fl. B. Ind. i. 98 {A. Cocculus, W. and A.) Miers 1. c. t. 97 Bentl. 

 and Trim. Med. PI. t. 14 (drawn from a Ceylon specimen). 



A large woody twiner, bark thick, vertically furrowed or 

 corrugated, young shoots glabrous ; 1. 3-6 in., broadly ovate, 

 acute or obtuse, rounded or subcordate at base, sub-coriaceous, 

 glabrous above, paler and with very small tufts of hair in the 

 axils of the veins beneath, petioles 2-4 in., thickened and 

 prehensile at lower ends ; fl. \ in. diam., with 2 or 3 small 

 bracts at base, on short, thick divaricate pedicels, arranged on 

 the horizontal branches of large glabrous panicles 8-12 in. 

 long springing from the old leaves, buds globular ; sep. equal, 

 ultimately reflexed ; pet. o ; male fl. : — anth. forming a globose 



