io The Flowering Plants of Western India. 



This is a distinctly tropical order of little beauty, but the leaves 

 are of a very marked character. The male flowers resemble some 

 of the Euphorbia cece, but the female flowers and fruit are utterly 

 unlike. 



1. TINOSPOEA. Sepals in 2 series larger than the petals 

 filaments free, stigmas forked. 



2. ANAMIRTA. Sepals 6 with 2 bracts, petals none, fila- 

 ments united into a column ; female flowers with 9 staminodes 

 and stalked ovaries. 



3. COCCULUS. Sepals in 2 series, the outer smaller, petals 6 

 smaller, stamens embraced by the petals ; female flowers with 

 6 staminodes, 



4. CISSAMPELOS. Male flowers with 4 sepals and petals, the 

 latter united into a cup, anthers united round the top of the 

 staminal column ; female flowers crowded among the leafy- 

 bracts, with one sepal and one petal. 



5. CYCLEA. Male flowers with 4 to 8 sepals and petals, the 

 calyx inflated, stamens as in the last ; female flowers with one 

 sepal and one petal. 



1. TINOSPOEA. 



T. cordifolia. A large twiner with light grey bark, loaves 

 smooth, heart-shaped on long petioles, flowers in racemes 

 very small, yellow, very deciduous ; drupe very small, round 

 or oval, bright red, glutinous inside. Gulvel, ambarvel, 

 garudvel. 



Konkan and Deccan. Throughout tropical India (H.). The 

 stems, called gulo, throw out long thread-like roots, and are sold in 

 the bazaar, and used in fevers (Z).). 



Largely cultivated in Ceylon. " Such is its tenacity of life that 

 the Cinghalese to grow it simply twist several yards of the stem 

 into a coil, and hang it on the branch of a tree, where it speedily 

 puts forth its large heart-shaped leaves, and sends down its rootlets 

 to the earth." Tennant. 



* T. malalarica ascribed by D. to the Konkan has white hairs 

 scattered about it, ovate cordate pointed leaves and green flowers. 



2. ANAMIRTA. 



A. cocculus. A smooth twiner with thick corky bark ; 

 leaves heart-shaped or ovate with long petioles ; flowers com- 

 paratively large, greenish, in very long panicles from the 

 thicker branches ; drupes roundish, smooth, black. Kdkmdri 

 U Uj. 



Common in the Konkan (D.}. I have seen it only at Kew. The 



