378 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Sepals 4 to 8, connate ; petals of c? 4 to 8 connate, 



of 5 1, anthers sessile on a central column ... 32. Cyclea. 



Tribe IV. Pachygonece. Floivers usunlly 3-merous. Ovaries usu- 

 ally 3. Drupes with a sub-basal or ventral style-scar. Seed curved, 

 hooked oi- inflexed, albumen ; cotyledons thick fleshy. 



Sepals 8; petals 2 ; stamens 4 or 8 ... ... 13. Antitaxis. 



I. TiNOSPORA, Miers. 



Climbing shrubs. Flowers in axillary or terminal racemes or pani- 

 cles. Sepals 6, 2-sei"iate, inner lariTei', membranous. Petals 6, smaller. 

 Male fioiver ; stamens 6, filaments fiee, the tips thickened; anther cells 

 obliquely adnate, bursting obliquely. Female flower ; staminodes 6, clavate. 

 Oviiries^; stigmas forked. JDrttpes 1-3, dorsally convex, ventrally flat ; 

 style- scar subterminal ; endocarp rugose, dorsally keeled, venti-ally 

 concave. Seed grooved ventrally or curved round the intruded sub- 

 2-lobed endocarp ; albumen ventrally ruminate ; cotyledons foliaceous, 

 ovate, spreading. — Distrib. Species about 8, tropical Asiatic and 

 African. 



1. T. CRISPA, Miers Contrib. Ill, 34. Young shoots glabrous, the 

 older bark warted. Leaves membranous, glabrous, ovate-cordate or 

 oblong-acuminate, entire or repand, sometimes sub-sagittate ; length of 

 blade 2 to 6 in., breadth 1 to 4 in., petiole 1 to 3 in. Racemes from the old 

 -wood, solitary or fascicled. Floivers 2 to 3, in the axils of ovate fleshy 

 bracts, '15 in. long, campanulate, green. Stamens adnate to the base of 

 the petals, anthers quadi^ate. Drupe elliptic-oblong, pale yellow, about 

 1-5 in. long or less. Hook. fil. Fl. B. Ind. I, 96; H. f. & T. Fl. Ind. 

 183 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, pt. i, 78 ; Kurz For. Flor. Burmah, I, 52. 

 Menispermum crispum, L. M. verrucosum, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii, 808. M. 

 tuberculatum, Lamk. Cocculus crispus, DC. Prodr. i. 97 ; Hassk. PI. 

 Jav. Rar. 166. Cocculus coriaceus, Bl. Bijd. 25. C. verrucosus, Wall. 

 Cat. 4966 A. B. 



In all the provinces, but apparently not very common. Distrib. 

 Malayan Archipelago: tropical British India. 



2. T. ULIGINOSA, Miers Conti-ib. iii, 35. All parts glabrous, the 

 branches terete, the loose brown bark bearing many 4-lobed warts. Leaves 

 subcoriaceous, remote ovate or ovate-oblong, acuminate sub-repand- 

 sinuate or entire, the base cordate, 5-nerved ; venation prominent ; length 

 of blade 3 to 4 in., breadth 1*5 to 2 in. ; petiole slender, swollen at tlie base, 

 1 to 2 in. long. Racemes slender axillary, longer than the leaves ; 

 pedicles l-flo\vered. Drupe as in T. r.rispa, but with thinner endocarp. 

 Hook. fil. Fl. B. Ind. i. 97 ; Hook fil. & Thorns. Fl. Ind. 105. Cocculus 

 petiolaris, Wall. Cat. 



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