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VII. MENISPERMACE^. 



[Tinospora. 



divided. Ovules i (except Fibraurea, 2) usually amphitropous. 

 Fruit a drupe. Seed hooked or reniform or straight, often curved 

 round an intrusion of the endocarp. Albumen even or ruminate 

 or absent. Cotyledons flat or semiterete. About 32 genera. 

 100 species. Tropics generally. King, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 

 Iviii. (2), 377. 



(a) Ovaries 3. 



Drupes with a terminal style-scar; stamens free. 

 Sepals 3 or 6 ; petals 6 ; slender climbers ; 



leaves thin, usually herbaceous 

 Sepals 6, connate ; petals o ; slender climber 

 Sepals 9 ; petals 6 . 

 Sepals 6 ; petals o ; woody liane 

 Drupes with sub-basal scar. 

 Woody climbers. 



Sepals 6 ; stamens free ; flowers in heads 

 Sepals 6; petals 6; stamens free; flowers 



cymosed ..... 



Sepals 9 ; stamens 9, connate ; flowers 



panicled ..... 



Sepals 8 ; petals 2 ; stamens 4 to 8 

 Slender climbing shrubs ; leaves not coriaceous 

 Sepals 9 ; petals 3 to 6 

 Sepals 6 ; petals 4 to 6 ; stamens 3 

 Sepals 6 ; petals 6 ; ovaries 3 to 6 ; stamens 



6 to 9 . 

 Sepals 8 to 1 2 ; petals 4 to 6 

 Sepals 6 ; petals 6 ; ovaries 3 ; styles forked 

 ip) Ovaries usually i. Endocarp tnuricate ; leaves 

 peltate. 

 Sepals 6 to 10; petals 3 to 5, free 

 Sepals 4 ; petals of male 4, female i . 

 Sepals 4 to 8, connate ; anthers on a central 

 column ....... 



1. Tinospora 



2. Peripetasma 



3. TiNOMISCIUM 



4. Fibraurea 



5. coscinium 



6. DiPLOCLISIA 



7. Arcangelisia 



8. Pycnarrhena 



9. LiMACIA 



10. TiLIACORA 



11. COCCULUS 



12. HyPSERPA 



13. Pericampylus 



14. Stephania 



15. CiSSAMPELOS 



16. Cyclea 



1. TINOSPORA, Miers. 



Weak climbers with loose pale bark often warted. Leaves 

 membranous, rarely sub-coriaceous, cordate or truncate at the 

 base, 3- to 5-nerved. Racemes solitary slender rarely branched. 

 Males several together. Females solitary. Flowers small, green. 

 Sepals 3 to 6, outer series usually smaller than the inner one. 

 Petals 5 or 6, widely cuneate-ovate, ver}^ small and involute round 

 the stamens or larger and free. Stamens 6, free. Females, petals 

 minute spathulate-oblong. Staminodes 6, shorter and with the 

 petals adnate to the pistils. Carpels 3, ellipsoid. Style short 

 thick. Stigma ligulate peltate. Drupes 3 or fewer, stalked 

 ellipsoid. Seed flattened moon-shaped, hollowed on ventral side. 

 Albumen ruminate. Species 24, tropical Asia, Austraha. 



Leaves herbaceous ; fruit "25 in. long, red. 



Leaves slightly cordate, base truncate . . . (i) T. crispa 



Leaves truncate at base; fruit i-25 in. long, yellow. (2) T. macrocarpa 



Leaves sub-coriaceous, base round . . . . (3) T. Curtisii 



