194 flora indica. [Menispermacete. 



Stamina 6 ; flamenta cylindrica ; antherce adnatse, ovales, biloculares, 

 loculis lateraliter dehiscentibus. Fcem. Stamina sterilia 6 3 subclavata. 

 Ovaria 3. Stylus ad basin bipartitus, segmentis reflexis subulatis. 

 Drapee subglobosse. Putamen hippocrepiforme, dorso cristatum, late- 

 raliter utrinque excavatum, imperforatum. Embryo in axi albuminis 

 cyliudricus ; cotyledonibus elongatis, radicula cylindrica vix latioribus, 

 planis. — Frutices scandentes, foliis subpeltatis, petiolis gracilibus basi 

 articulatis, cymis dichotomic axillaribus longe pedunculatis multifloris, 

 scepe in una axilla pluribus superpositis, interdum secus ramum elongatum 

 aphyllum paniculatis. 



Pericampylus has the fruit of Cissampelos or Stephania, with the flower of the 

 tribe Cocculece. The bipartite style and peculiar inflorescence distinguish the genus. 

 When there are several cymes in oue axil, they are superposed, and the higher is then 

 usually supported on a longer peduncle, and bears more numerous flowers. 



The specimen of Loureiro's Pselium at the British Museum, though very imper- 

 fect, is clearly identical with Pericampylus incanus ; but as Loureiro's character is 

 very confused, the two sexes belonging evidently to different plants, the name must 

 be rejected. 



The stem of Pencamjiyhis incanus is cylindrical and grooved ; a portion of perhaps 

 four or five years 3 growth (or more), is one-third of an inch in diameter, and presents 

 eighteen wood-wedges, separated by very narrow medullary rays ; there are evident 

 traces of periodic deposition of wood in the wedges, marked by the number, size, and 

 disposition of the great vessels. The pith is loosely cellular in the centre, passing 

 into woody tubes near the wedges of wood, and becoming very dense and firm in the 

 medullary rays arid bark. Liber-bundles isolated, applied to the cambium layer, but 

 not much increased after the first year. 



1. P. incanus (Miers in Taylor's Annals, ser. 2. vii. 40); foliis 

 fere orbicularibus acutis vel obtusis. — Cocculus incanus, Colebrooke in 

 Linn. Tr. xiii. 57. Clypea corymbosa, Blume, Bijdr. 24. Cissampelos 

 Mauritiana, Wall. Cat. 4980 ! {non DC). Menispermum villosum, 

 Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 812 {)ion Lam.). 



Hab. In dumetis subtropicis Sikkim ! Assam ! Khasia ! Silhet ! Chit- 

 tagong ! Tenasserim ! Malaya usque ad Malacca ! — (v. v.) 



Distrib. Java! 



Frutex scandens, ramulis fulvo-tomentosis demum fere glabris. Folia latissima, 

 basi leviter cordata vel subtruncata, subpeltata, mucrone subdeciduo apiculata, inter- 

 dum retusa, diametro 2-4-pollicaria, petiolo 1-2-pollicari tomentoso, supra glabra, 

 subtus albo- vel cinereo-tomentosa vel incana, rarius glabrescentia, 5-nervia. Cymce 

 bi-trichotomse, folio breviores, pedunculis^ 1-2-pollicaribus. Bractea ad ramificationes 

 subulate. Sepala dorso villosa. Petala trapezoidea, acuta vel obtusa, marginibus 

 inflexis. Drupa lsete rubra. Putamen dorso seriebus 3 tuberculorum obtusorum 

 not at urn. 



Tribus IV. Cjssampelide^e. 



Stamina in columnam centralem cylindricam coalita, apice discum 

 planum peltatum rotundatum margine antheriferum gerentem. Ovaria 

 soiitaria, stylo 3-5-partito coronata. Embryo hippocrepiformis, cylin- 

 drical in axi albuminis parci, cotyledonibus oppositis. 



This tribe is characterised by the solitary ovary, crowned by the style, which is 



