46 Menispermacea:. \Cissampelos. 



shorter, styles subulate ; ripe carp, solitary, sessile, small, \ in., 

 compressed, glabrous, endocarp strongly tubercled on back 

 and sides ; seed curved almost into a ring. 



Moist country up to 2000 ft.; common. Fl. July ; greenish-white. 

 Fruit scarlet. 



Also in Peninsular India, Malaya, and tropical Australia and Africa. 



The head of fruit looks as if it were the produce of a single flower 

 instead of an umbel of several sessile ones. 



9. CZSSABZPEIiOS, L. 



Twining shrubs ; male fl. in lax cymes, sep. 4, pet. 4, 

 coherent into a 4-lobed corolla, stam. 4 (or 5), monadelphous, 

 anth. in a ring, bursting transversely ; fem. fl. in crowded 

 umbels, sep. i, pet. i, carp, i, style 3-fid., staminodes none ; 

 endocarp tubercled on back ; seed horseshoe-shaped, embryo 

 linear, terete, much curved, in axis of plain endosperm. — 

 Sp. about 18; I \vl Fl. B. Ind. 



C. Pareira,* L. Sp. PL 1013 (1753), Diya-mitta, S. 



Coccidtis orbiculatus, Moon Cat. 69. Thw. Enum. 13. C. P. 169. 

 Fl. B. Ind. i. 103. Bentl. and Trim. Med. PI. t. 15. 



A woody twiner, usually of small size, with straggling 

 branches, young shoots pubescent or tomcntose ; 1. small, 

 i^-2| in., ovate- or reniform - orbicular, acute or obtuse, 

 mucronate, more or less peltate and slightly cordate at base^ 

 smooth above, usually stellate-pubescent and pale but some- 

 times glabrous beneath, ciliate at margin, petioles i-i^ in., 

 pubescent ; male fl. pedicellate, in small, branched, lax, cymose 

 clusters at end of filiform axillary peduncles shorter than the 

 leaves ; fem. fl. in crowded umbels or short racemes, in axils 

 of large, leafy, reniform, hairy bracts, on racemose axillary 

 panicles longer than leaf-petioles ; male fl. : — sep. ovate- 

 spathulate, toothed, corolla cup-shaped, lobes half as long as 

 Sep., stam.-column slender ; fem. fl. : — sep. hairy outside, oval, 

 pet. glabrous, broader and shorter than sep., carp, ovoid, 

 gibbous, silky, style-branches spreading ; ripe carp, small, 

 -J- in., ovoid, somewhat compressed, style-scar basal, endocarp 

 transversely ridged and tuberculate, hollowed on sides ; seed 

 horseshoe-shaped. 



* So named by Linn.xus in the belief that it afforded the ' Pareira 

 brava' of commerce now known to be the produce of Chondrodaidron 

 totnentosuiii. 



