V. MENISPERMACE.E. 23 



11-4 in. in diam., orbicular or reniform, often slightly broader tban 

 long, cordate or truncate at the base, mucrouate, pubescent on both 

 surfaces when young, at length glabrous, underside pale or subglaucous, 

 margins ciliate ; petiole l|-4 in, long, pubescent, inserted g-5 in. within 

 the basal margin. Flowers minute, yellowish. Male flowers pedi- 

 celled in nearly axillary cymes ; peduncles filiform, | in. long, pubescent ; 

 bracts small, subulate. Sepals 4, hairy outside, obovate-oblong, concave. 

 Petals combined into a cyathiform corolla, hairy without, glabrous 

 within, half the length of the sepals. Filaments longer than the corolla. 

 Female floavers in elongate, solitary or twin, axillary racemes ; 

 pedicels very short, pubesceut or villous ; bracts foliaceous, more or less 

 stalked or nearly sessile, orbicular or i^eniform, mucronate, usually softly 

 villous (sometimes glabrous), ciliate, persistent. Sepal 1, ovate-obloug, 

 villous on the outside. Petal 1, subrotund, about half the length of the 

 sepal. Drupe subglobose, compressed, hairy, red ; endocarp transversely 

 ridged. Fl. B. I. v. 1, p. 103 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 5 ; K. Prantl, in Engl. 

 & Prantl, Pflanzenf. v. 3, part 2, pp. 84, 85, fig. 62, a-f ; Trim. Fl. 

 Ceyl. V, 1, p. 46 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. p. 8 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. 

 Nat. V. 11 (1897) p. 121 ; Watt, Diet. Ecnn. Prod. v. 2, p. 327. Ciss- 

 ampelos convulvutacea, Willd. Sp. PI. v. 4, p. 863 ; Grab. Cat. p. 5. 

 Flowers : July-Sept. Vern. Pahddmul ; PaJidduel. 



KoNKAN : Law I, Dahcll J- Gihon, Talbot. Dkccan: liills near Junnar, Woodrow ! ; 

 Laiioli, Cooke ! ; Khandala, Woodrow ! Kanaka : N. Kanara, Talhot. 



7. CYCLEA, Arnott. 



Shrubs, usually climbing. Leaves peltate or broadly cordate. Flowers 

 in axillary panicles. Male flowers : Sepals 4-8, connate into a cam- 

 panulate or inflated globose calyx. Petals as many as the sepals, more 

 or less connate. Anthers 4-6, connate, crowning the stamiual column, 

 bursting transversely. Female floavers: Sepal 1, oblong. Petal 1, 

 orbicular. Ovary 1; style short, 3-54obed, lobes radiating. Drupe 

 subglobose; style-scar sub-basal; endocarp horseshoe-shaped, dorsalljr 

 tubercled, sides not excavated, convex. Seed horseshoe-shaped ; albumen 

 scanty ; cotyledons slender, |-terete, appressed. — Distrib. Tropical 

 Asia ; species 3. 



Calj'X globose ; teeth 4-8, short !■ C. Burmanni. 



Calyx campanulate, divided nearly to the base ; lobes 4-5 2. C. peltata. 



1. Cyclea Burmanni, Miers, in Ann. ^ Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 2, v. 7 

 (1851) p. 41, & Contvih. V. 3 (1871) p. 239, t. 121. A chmbing shrub ; 

 branches slender, terete, striate, hairy when young, glabrous Avhen older. 

 Leaves thinly coriaceous, peltate, 2-5 by 1|-3| in., elougate-deltoid, 

 often panduriformly sinuate below the middle, sinuate-truncate or scarcely 

 cordate at the base with rounded angles, shining, glabrous or with a 

 few scattered hairs above, pubescent and reticulately veined beneath, 

 margins slightly repand, nerves hairy; petioles 1-1 1 in. long, hairy, 

 inserted ^-| in. within the basal margin. Male floavers in axillary 

 panicles much longer than the leaf, laxly branched, puberulous ; branches 

 remote, elongate, filiform ; pedicels slender. Calyx subglobose, shortly 

 4-8- (often 6-) toothed, hairy without, puberulous or glabrous Avithin. 

 Corolla cyathiform, glabrous, fleshy, margin subentire, involute. Female 

 FLOWERS in axillary racemes about as long as the petiole, pubescent. 



