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Order V. MENISPERMACE^. 



Climbing or twining, rarely sarmentose, shrubs. Leaves altei-nate, 

 entire or lobed, usually palmi-nerved ; stipules 0. Floivers small or 

 minute, solitary fascicled cymose or racemed, dioecious, sometimes 3- 

 bracteolate. Sepals 6 (rarely 1 to 4, or 9 to 12), usually free, imbricate 

 in 2 to 4 series, outer often minute. Petals 6 (rarely or 1 to 5), free or 

 connate, d" Flowers : Stamens hypogynous, usually one opposite each 

 petal, filaments free or connate ; anthers free or connate, 2-ceIled. Rudi- 

 mentary carpels small or 0. 2 Flowers : staminodes 6 or 0. Ovaries 3 

 (rarely 1, or 6 to 12) ; style terminal, simple or divided ; ovules solitary 

 (2 in Fibraurea), usually amphitropous. Ripe carpels drupaceous, 

 with the style-scar subterrainal, or by excentric growth sub-basal. Seed 

 usually hooked or reniform, often curved round an intrusion of the 

 eudocarp (condyle Miers), albumen even or ruminate or 0; cotyledons 

 flat or semi-terete, foliaceous or fleshy, appressed or spreading. — A large 

 tropical order : genera 32 ; species about 100. 



Tribe I. Tinnsporece. Flowers 3-merous. Ovaries usually 3. Drupes 

 with a subterminal rarely ventral or sub-basal style-scar. Sei-d oblong 

 or subglobose ; albumen copious or scanty ; cotyledons foliaceous, usually 

 spreading laterally 



Drupes with a terminal or subterminal style-scar. 



Sepals 6; petals 6 ; filaments free ... ... I. Tinospora. 



Sepals 9 ; petals 6; filaments free ... ... 2. Tinomiscium 



Sepals 6 ; petals ; filaments free ... ... 3. Fibraurea. 



Drupes with a sub-basal style-scar. 



Sepals 6 ; filaments all connate ... .,, 4i. Anamirta. 



Sepals 9; outer filaments free ... ... 6. Goscinium. 



Tribe II. Cocculeos. Flowers 3-merous. Ovaries usually 3. Drupe 

 with a sub-basal rarely subterminal style-scar. Seed horse-shoe shaped, 

 albumen copious ; embryo slender, cotyledons linear or slightly dilated. 

 Sepals 3 to 10, all imbricate ; petals 4 to 6, stamens 

 6 to 10, ovaries 3 to 6, style canuliculate, sub- 

 3- lobed ... ... ... ... 6. Hypserpa. 



Sepals 9, the inner 3 valvate ; petals 3 or 6, 



ovaries 3, style compressed ... ... 7. Limacia. 



Petals 6; ovaries 3 to 6 ; styles subulate ... 8. Cocculus. 



Petals 6; ovaries 3 ; style forked ... ...9, Pericampylus. 



Tribe III. Cissampelidece. Flowers S to 5-merous. Ovaries usnuUj 

 solitary. Drupe with a sub-basal style-scar; endocarp dorsally muricate 

 or echinate. Seed horse-shoe-shaped, albumen scanty ; embryo linear, 

 cotyledons appresed. 



Sepals 6 to 10, free; petals of d" and 2 3-6, free... 10. Stephania. 

 Sepals 4, free ; petals of <? 4 connate, of 2 1 ...11. Cissampelos. 



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