7. Alphonsea.] 3. ANONACEJE. [1. Cissampelos. 



Ravines near water in Raimehal hills, from Narganj to Banjhi, 

 rare. Fl. Feby. Fr. (in Br. Bhotan) ripens Aug. Evergreen. New 

 shoots Feby. -March. 



Buds tomentosely hairy. L. slightly hairy on the nerves beneath 

 with obtuse or rounded base and 9-14 prs. very fine sec. n. visible 

 both sides. Petiole thiok \'' hairy. Cymes short and dense from 

 the old wood mostly leaf opposed. Pedicels | v with a minute 

 ovate bract near the middle. Calyx £'' diam. with 3 broadly ovate brown 

 tomentose lobes. Petals |— -fa". Outer ovate valvate in bnd, tomentose. 

 Inner white ovate-lanceolate sub-erect aoute with saccate base, brown 

 pubescent. St. in 4 spirals, fil. very short broad, connective slightly 

 produced, anth. cells extrose. Carpels 8 tomentose close elongate with 

 about 15 ovules on the ventral suture. Stigma capitate. 



If this is really the same as the tall tree of eastern Bengal, the 

 fruiting carpels {which I have not seen in the S. P.) attain 2£ v and 

 resemble small tomentose yellow mangoes. 



Fam. 4. MEMSPERMACE E. 



Climbing herbs or shrubs with alt. exstipulate palmi- 

 nerved simple leaves with lobed or usually quite entire 

 margin. Fls. minute dioecious 3-5-merous in cymes or 

 racemes. St. as many as petals, opp. to them, 

 embraced by the petals, or anthers connate in a ring 

 Tound the top of a column. F. fl., carpels 1-6, when 

 ripe drupaceous with usually a very characteristic seed and 

 endocarp, the latter being generally a borse-shoe shaped, 

 often thickened and tubercled tube containing the seed, 

 curved round a solid depressed center. 



M. fl. 4-merous. F. perianth leaves 2. Carpel 1 . . 1. Cissampelos. 

 M. sep. 6-10. pet 3-5. F. sep. and pet, 3-5 Carpel 1 . 2. Btephania. 

 Sep. 6, petals 6, stamens 6. 



Pubescent. Carpels 3-6 ..... 3. Cocculus. 



Glabrous. Carpels 1-3 ..... 4. Tinospora. 



Glabrous. Carpels 9-12 5. Tiliacora. 



1. Cissampelos, L. 



1. C. Pareira, i. Htu sing, Kami-red, E. j Tejo ma&i 

 8, ; Akanadij 2L, Beng. 



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