Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 387 



Ivulacea, Willd., Wall. Cat. 4979; W. &. A. Prod. i. 14; Roxb. Z. c. 

 C. orbiculata, discolor and hirsuta, Ham, DC. I. c. 101. C diversa, gral- 

 latoria, eriantha, elata and delicatula, Miers I. c. 187-189. G. suh-peltata, 

 Thw. Euum. 13 & 399; Rliers I. c. 195. Menispermum orhicnlalum, 

 Linn. 



A common climber in all parts of tlie Settlements. Distrib. Every- 

 ■where in the Tropics. 



14. Cyclea, Aruott. 



Climbing shrubs. Leaves usually peltate. Flowers in axillary pani- 

 cles ; Male floioer ; sepals 4-8, connate into an inflated 4-5-lobed calyx. 

 Petals 4 to 8, more or less connate into a 4- or 8-lobed corolla. Anthers 

 4 to 6, connate, crowning the staminal column, bursting transversely. 

 Female jloiver ; sepal 1, oblong. Petal 1, orbicular. Ovary 1; style 

 short, 3- to 5-lobed, lobes radiating. Drupe ovoid, style-scar subbasal ; 

 endocarp horse-shoe-shaped, dorsally tubercled, sides convex, 2-locellate 

 {siS in Limacia) . Seed curved ; cotyledons slender, ^-terete, appressed. 

 — Distrib. Tropical Asia. 



L C. PELTATA, H. f. & Th. Fl. Indica, 201. Bianchlets striate, 

 reflexed, pubescent or glabrous. Leaves coriaceous, peltate, deltoid or 

 orbicular-ovate, acute or acuminate, often mucronate, the base truncate 

 to cordate ; above glabrous or glabrescent, beneath pubescent to tomen- 

 tose, the 9 nerves rather prominent, length of blade 45 to 5'5 in., 

 breadth 3*5 to 4"5 in. ; petiole 2 to 2*5 in., reflexed, pubescent or tomen- 

 tose, striate. Panicles usually longer than the leaves, the males often 

 much branched and spreading and a foot long, the females smaller. 

 Calyx campanulate, 4-lobed, glabrous or pilose externally. Corolla 

 much smaller. Drupe pisiform, pilose; endocarp much tuberculate. 

 Hook. 61. Fl. Br. Ind. i. 104 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. Pt. 1, 86 ; Miera 

 Contrib. iii. 236. G. barbata, Arnottii, versicolor, laxijlora and pendulina, 

 Miers I. c. Menisp. peltaticm, Lamk. Cocculus peltatus, DC. Prod. i. 96. 

 Clypea Burmanni, W. & A., in part. Cyclea Buriuanni, Arnot in 

 Wight 111. i. 22. Bhaptomeris Burmanni, Miers in Tayl. Ann. Ser. 2, 

 vii. 41. 



Not common in the Straits Settlements. Distrib. Java, British 

 India, Ceylon. 



2. C. ELEOANS, King, nov. spec. Young branches spirally striate, 

 puberulous, as are the petioles and panicles ; otherwise glabrous. Leaves 

 slightly peltate, membranous, shining on both surfaces, the reticulations 

 minute but distinct, ovate to ovate-oblong, shortly acuminate, the base 

 rounded or cordate, 7-nerved (4 of the nerves minute) ; length of blade 

 3 to 4 in., breadth 15 to 2 in., petiole about 1 in. Male and female 



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