Siepha?iza.'\ MenispermacecB. 45 



p. ovata, Miers in Hk. f. a7id Th. Fl. Ind. i. 203 (1855). Kad- 

 dukkodi, T. 



P. Pliikenetii and P. adversa, Miers, 1. c. 330 and 332. Thw. Enum. 

 13. C. P. 1050 (1054, 1057). 



Fl. B. Ind. i. 105. Wight, Ic. tt. 824, 825 {Coccuhes Pliikenetii\ 

 Miers, 1, c. t. 135. 



A small woody climber, young shoots hairy ; 1. small, 

 numerous, 1-3 in., ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, mucronate, base 

 rounded or cuneate, glabrous, rather thick, 3-nerved at base, 

 petiole -^-f in., pubescent or hairy ; fl. pedicellate, in axillary, 

 erect or drooping, hairy racemes usually shorter than the 

 leaves, but the male sometimes longer ; sep. oval, inner twice 

 as long ; pet. as long as outer sep., bifid, toothed at the base ; 

 male fl. : — anth. didymous ; fem. fl. : — carp, smooth, styles 

 horizontal ; ripe carp, usually solitary, reniform, somewhat 

 compressed, style-scar sub-basal, endocarp finely wrinkled on 

 back. 



Dry country, principally near the coast, rather common ; Jaiifna ; Kal- 

 pitiya ; Mannar ; Batticaloa ; Kurunegula ; Uma-oya Fl. Nov.-Feb. ; 

 yellow. 



Also on the Carnatic coast of Madras and in Timor and Java. 



Gaertner's ' Koon zeylonens.' (Fruct. t. 180, fig. 11) is referred to this 

 in Fl. B. Ind. (following Miers), but I think erroneously. The seed 

 figured seems really to be that of the Kon {Schleichera trijuga) as named 

 by Gaertner. 



Miers (1. c.) gives C. P. 1054 for his P. adversa, which is described as 

 differing by the leaves dilated at base and longer panicles. 



8. STEPKANZA, Lour. 

 Twiners ; fl. in umbels ; male fl. : — sep. 6, pet. 3, stam. 6, 

 monadelphous, filaments forming a central column, anthers in 

 a ring, bursting transversely ; fem. fl. : — sep. 3-5, pet. 6, carp, i, 

 style 3-fid., no staminodes ; endocarp strongly tubercled on 

 back ; seed almost annular, endosperm scanty, cotyledons 

 slender, ^-terete. — Sp. about 5 ; 3 in Fl. B. Ind, 



S. hernandifolia, Walp. Rep. i. 96 (1842). Ziunuketiya-wel, S. 



Cissampelos hernandifoUa, Willd., Moon Cat. 70. S. intertextaj 

 Miers, Contrib. iii. 222. Thw. Enum. 13. C. P. 2757. 

 Fl. B. Ind. i. 103. Wight, Ic. t. 939{Clypea). 



A slender twiner, shoots glabrous ; 1. 2-4 in., round-ovate, 

 acute or obtuse, peltate cordate or truncate at base, glabrous, 

 glaucous beneath, petiole 1-2 in., slender, divaricate ; fl. very 

 small, nearly sessile, in small umbels at ends of branches of 

 long-stalked, axillary umbels, bracts subulate ; male fl. : — sep. 

 nearly equal, obovate, obtuse, pet. much shorter, staminal 

 column short, summit expanded ; fem. fl. : — sep, acute, pet. 



