Cydea.] MenispermacecB. 47 



Van /3. subpeltata, TJnu. Eninn. 13 and 399. Miers, 1. c. 195. 

 C. P. 168. 



Fern, inflor. with very small bracts ; corolla of male fl. not 

 lobed ; fruit rather larger ; 1. scarcely peltate. 



Common throughout the island up to 4000 ft., Van ft. Ratnapura. 

 Fl. throughout the year ; greenish-yellow. Fruit red. 



Cosmopolitan in all tropical and sub-tropical countries. 



Varies greatly in the form of the leaves and the amount of hairiness 

 of the whole plant. Miers considers true C. Pareira to be confined to S. 

 America, the Ceylon forms he refers to his species C. grallatoria, C. deli- 

 cat ul a, and C. subpeltata. 



9. CVCIiEA, Am. 



Woody twiners; fl. in panicles; male fl. : — sep. 4-5, 

 coherent to form a campanulate calyx, pet. 4-5, coherent into 

 a lobed corolla, stam. 4, monadelphous, anth. bursting trans- 

 versely ; fern. fl. : — sep. i, pet. i, carp, i, style 3-fid., no stami- 

 nodes ; endocarp tubercled on back ; seed horseshoe- shaped, 

 cotyledons narrow. — Sp. 3 ; 2 in Fl. B. Ind. 



C. Burmannl, Miers in Hk. f. and Th. Fl. Ind. 201 (1855). 

 Kehi-pittan, K.esi-pissan, S. 



Herm. Mus. 21. Burm. Thes. 218. Fl. Zeyl. n. 362 {Dioscorea). 

 Cocculus Burmanni., DC. Syst. Veg. i. 517. Moon Cat. 69. Miers, 

 Contrib. iii. 239. Thw. Enum. 13. C. P. 1049. 



Fl. B. Ind. i. 104. Burm. Thes. Zeyl. t. loi. Miers, Contrib. iii. t. 121. 



A small woody twiner, young shoots hairy-pubescent ; 

 1. 3-4 in., peltate, elongate-deltoid, very acute, truncate or 

 shallowly subcordate at base, undulate at margin, smooth and 

 shining above, more or less pubescent beneath, reticulately 

 veined ; fl. pedicellate, in small clusters, on a long, branched, 

 pubescent, axillary panicle; male fl. : — cal. inflated, the lobes 

 shallow, corolla-lobes inflexed, staminal column short ; fem. 

 fl. : — sep. hairy, pet. glabrous, truncate, carp, hairy ; ripe carp, 

 globular-ovoid, glabrous, white, style-scar sub-basal, endocarp 

 convex on sides, muriculate in lines on back. 



Throughout the low moist country ; common in waste and cultivated 

 ground. Fl. Sept. ; green. Fruit white. 



Occurs in Western India, but rarely. 



The dense masses of fruit are precisely like miniature bunches of 

 small white grapes. The seeds are figured by Gaertner (Fruct. t. 180, 

 f. 12) under the name of 'Wal-tiedde and Keipisan ' among the 'Bar- 

 baras ' at the end of the book. 



C. peltala, Hk. f. and Th., is given for Ceylon in Fl. B. Ind. i. 105. 

 This rests on a poor specimen (in bud) of Walker's (No. 194) in the Kew 

 Herbarium labelled Clypea Arnoitii, Miers. Miers, however, quotes this 

 number (Contrib. iii. 239) under C. Burmanni. The species can be 

 separated only by the slight differences in their flowers ; the leaves are 

 nearly indistinguishable, those of C peltata, however, being rather broader. 



