386 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



staminal column, bursting transversely. Female flower : sepals 3 to 5. 

 Petals of the male. Staminodes 0. Ovary 1 ; style 3- to 6-partite. Drupe 

 glabrous ; endocarp compressed, horse-shoe-sbaped, dorsally tubercled, 

 sides hollowed and perforated. ^Seei almost annular; cotyledons long, 

 slender, ^-terete, appressed. — Distrib. Tropics of the Old World. 



1, S. HERNANDIFOLIA, "Walp. Rep. i, 96. Young branches striate, 

 glabrous. Leaves membranous, broadly ovate-rotund, acute or acuminate, 

 rarely obtuse, peltate; the base truncate, emarginate or sub-cordate ; 

 glabrous or sparsely pubescent; nerves about 10 radiating from the 

 petiolar insertion, dark-coloured on the pale or glaucous under surface, 

 reticulations open ; length of blade 2"5 to 5 in., breadth 2"25 to 3 in. ; 

 petiole ]75 to 2 in. Umbels on long slender peduncles, many-flowered. 

 Petals 3 to 4. Drupes red, pisifoi^m, compressed. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. 

 Ind. i, 103 ; Hf. & T. Fl. Ind. 196 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. Pt. 1, 83 ; 

 Miers Contrib. iii, 222. S. intertexta, latifoUa, and liypoglauca, Miers I. c. 

 224, 226, 227. Cissampelos hernandifolia, Willd. ; DC. Prodr. i. 100; 

 Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 842 ; Wall. Cat. 4977 D, E, F, G, H, K. G. discolor, 

 DO. I.e. i. 101 ; Bl. Bijdr. 26. C. hexandra, Roxb. I.e. iii. 842. Clypea 

 liprnandifolia, W. &. A. Prodr. i, 14 ; Wight Tc. t. 939. Steph. discolor, 

 Hassk. PL Jav. rar. 168. 



Common in shady places. Distrib. The Malayan Archipelago, 

 British India, Australia, Africa. 



J3. CissAMPELOS, Linn. 



Suberect or climbing shrubs. Leaves often peltate. Male flowers 

 cymose. Sepals 4, 5 or 6, erose. Petals 4, connate, forming a 4-lobed 

 cup. Anthers 4, connate, encircling the top of the staminal column, 

 bursting transvei'sely. Female flowers ; racemed, crowded in the axils of 

 leafy bracts. Sepals 2 (or sepal and petal 1 each), 2-nerved, adnate to the 

 bracts. Staminodes 0. Ovary 1 ; style short, 3-fid or 3-toothed. Drupe 

 ovoid, style-scar sub-basal ; endocarp horse-shoe-shaped, compressed, 

 dorsally tubercled, sides excavated. Seed curved; embryo slender; 

 cotyledons narrow, ^-terete, appressed. — Distrib. All hot climates. 



1. 0. Pakeira, Linn. Young branches pubescent. Leaves usually 

 peltate, membraneous, orbicular-rcTiiform or cordate, obtuse and mucro- 

 nate, rarely acute, base truncate to cordate, above glabrescent, below 

 pubescent to tonientose ; length 1"8 to 3 in., breadth rather greater, pe- 

 tiole 1 to 3 in. Male cymes 2 or 3, axillary, slender. Female racemes 

 with large reniform or orbicular bracts. Ripe drupes scarlet, sub-globose, 

 hirsute, 2 in. in diam. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. i. 104; H. f. & Th. Fl. 

 Indical98; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. Pt. 1, 85; DC. Prod. i. 100; Miers 

 Contrib. iii. 139 ; C. caapeba, Linn. ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 842. 0. convo- 

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