24 " V. MENISPEEMACEiE. 



Sepal 1, SLiborbicLilar, pilose outside. Pekil 1, orbicular, glabrous and 

 fleshy, a little smaller than the sepal, to which it is adnate at the base. 

 Drupe white when ripe ; endocarp rauriculate in lines on the back. Fl. 

 B. I. V. 1, p. 104 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 6 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 1, p. 47 ; Talb. 

 Trees, Bomb. p. 8 ; A\^oodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. *v. 11 (1897) p. 121. 

 Clijpea Bunnanni, W. & A. Prodr. p. L4 (iu part) ; Grab. Cat. p. 5. — 

 Flowers : Jan. Yern. Pulxir. 



Hilly parts of the Konkan and Grhats, DaLcll lJ- Gibson. Konkan : Stocks !, Dcdzell !, 

 Gibson ! ; Western Ghats, Woodrow. S. M. Country : Belgaum, Ritchie, 976 ! 



2. Cyclea peltata, Hool-.f. Sf Thorns. Fl. i?tcZ. (1855) p. 201. Similar 

 in general appearance and habit to the preceding species. Leaves 3-6 

 by 2-4| in., deltoid or ovate, acute, truncate or slightly sinuate at the 

 base \\ith rounded angles, mucronate, more or less hairy on the nerves 

 and veins, margins often ciliate. Flowers minute, smaller than in the 

 preceding. Male panicles axillary, slender, much-branched ; branches 

 remote, divaricate, the lower the longer, gradually becoming shorter 

 upwards, the uppermost very short or obsolete ; flowers subsessile, inter- 

 ruptedly spicate or collected into heads. Calyx campanulate, divided 

 nearly to the base into 4 (rarely 5) segments, pilose without. Corolla 4- 

 (rarely 5-) fid. Female panicles racemose, much shorter than the male. 

 Sepal oblong, glabrous. Petal orbicular, much shorter than the sepal. 

 Ovary pilose. Drupe pilose. Fl. B.I. v. 1, p. 104 : Dalz. & Gibs. p. 6 ; 

 Miers, Contrib. v. 3, p. 236; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 1, p. 47; Talb. Trees, 

 Bomb. p. 8; AVoodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1897) p. 121. 



Distinguished from C. Bunnanni by the more ovate leaves and by 

 the calyx, which is campanulate (almost funnel-shaped) instead of 

 globose, and which is divided almost to the base, instead of being shortly 

 toothed. The coi'olla too is more deeply divided than in the preceding 

 species. 



The plant is by no means common in the Bombay Presidency. It may be found 

 occasionally on some of the Konkan hills, but not nearly so frequently as Cyclea 

 Burmanni. 



oedervi. nymph^ace^. 



Aquatic, perennial herbs, with a submerged rhizome. Leaves usually 

 floating, rarely emersed, usually peltate, involute in vernation, the sub- 

 merged leaves never divided ; petioles long. Flowers usually floating or 

 sometimes emersed, handsome ; scapes 1-flowered, naked ; floral whorls 

 all free, hypogjnous or adnate to a fleshy disk which surrounds or 

 envelops the carpels. Sepals 3-5. Petals 3-5 or many. Stamens 6- 

 many ; anthers erect. Carpels 3 or more in one whorl, free or cotniate 

 or irregularly sunk in pits of the disk ; stigmas as many, peltate or 

 decurrent. Ovules few or many, scattered over the walls of the cells, 

 anatropous or orthotropous. Fruit emersed or maturing beneath the 

 water, formed of the connate carpels, or of separate and indehiscent 

 carpels, or of the enlarged, turbinate, flat-topped disk with the nut-like 

 carpels sunk in its crown. Seeds naked or immersed in a fleshy or 

 pulpous aril : albumen floury or ; embryo enclosed in the enlarged 

 amniotic sac. — Diariuij. Tiu-oughout the world; genera 8; species 

 about 35. 



