4. TIT. MENISPERMACE®. 
sally tubercled, hollowed on both sides.—Benth. and Hook. 
Gen. Pl. p. 87. Homocnemia, F7. Cap. i. p. 10. 
A single species, Homocnemia Meyeriana, Miers, from Natal. A vine- 
like twiner, with peltate, ovate-orbicular, many- -nerved, pubescent leaves. 
Flowers in umbels. 
2. CISSAMPELOS, Linn. 
Flowers dicecious. Male: Sepals 4, separate. Corolla 
cup-shaped, nearly entire, shorter than the sepals (composed 
of 4 confluent petals). Staminal column peltate at the apex ; 
anthers 4-12, sessile in a marginal ring. Female: Sepal 1, 
anterior. Petal 1 (or 2 confluent) in front of the sepal, clasp- 
ing the ovary. Carpel 1; style 3-fid. Drupe kidney-shaped ; 
nut compressed and wrinkled at edges.— FV. Cap. i. p. 10. 
Mostly twming, slender, shrubby plants. Leaves simple, petioled, en- 
tire, ovate reniform or cordate, often peltate. Male flower in cymes; 
female racemose, densely tufted in the axils of leafy bracts.—3 Cape spe- 
cies, 2 of which are confined to the Eastern district and Natal. 
3. ANTIZOMA, Miers. 
Flowers dicecious. Male flower as in Cissampelos. Female: 
Sepals 2, opposite, very concave, fleshy, slightly imbricate in 
bud. Petals 2, opposite the sepals, minute, scale-like, orbi- 
cular, fleshy, hypozynous. Carpel 1, obovate ; style none ; 
stigma obsolete or bluntly 2-lobed. Fruit unknown.— £7. Cap. 
a, AT, 
Endemic. Suberect or twining shrubs. Leaves linear or lanceolate, en- 
tire, opaque, leathery, on very short petioles; the petiole armed at base 
with a dorsal spur-like spine.—5 reputed species (probably over-estimated), 
from the Northern and North-Eastern frontiers. 
Orpver IV. NYMPHMACEZ. 
Flowers - bisexual, large and showy. Petals numerous, in - 
several rows. Stamens many ; filaments flat ; anthers adnate. 
Carpels numerous, sunk in a fleshy torus, and thus concreted 
into a many-celled ovary.—“ Water-lilies.” Leaves on long 
stalks, cordate or peltate. 
1. NYMPH ZA, Linn. 
Sepals 4, at the base of the fleshy torus, in which the carpels 
are sunk. Petals and stamens numerous, in several rows, co- 
vering the sides of the torus. Ovary many-celled; stigmas 
sessile, radiating. Berry leather-coated, irregularly bursting ; 
seeds many, lodged in pulp. 
Water-plants, with submerged prostrate rootstocks, throwing up leaves 
