46 IV. MENISPERMACE.E (oliver). [Cissampelos. 



or sliglitly extra-axillary cymes or small cymose panicles. Female inflores- 

 cence racemose, the flowers on very short pedicels, clustered in the axils of 

 rotundate cordate or reniform leafv bracts. Drupes pilose or glabrate. — C. 

 wucronata, Rich, in Fl. Seneg. i. 11. C. Vogelii, Miers in Fl. Nio-rit. 214. 

 C. comata, Miers, 1. c. 215. C. macrostachya, Klotzsch in Peters' Mossanib. 

 172. C. senensis and C. hirta, Klotzsch, 1. c. C. aristolochiafolia, Fenzl in 

 Flora, 1844, 312. 



For extended synonymy, see ' Flora Indica,' i. 198, of Drs. Hooker and Thomson, or 

 Eichler in Martius' Fl. Brasiliensis, Menisp. 188. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Heudelot I etc. Nigritania, E. Vogel ! 



North Central. Bornu, E. Vogel! 



Nile Land. Sennar, Kotschy ! 



South Central, Baines ! 



Mozamb. Distr. Zarabesia, Br. Kirk ! 



Var. owariensis {C. owariensis, Beauv. ; DC. Prod. i. 100). Leaves usually obscurely 

 3- or eveu 5-angled, the lobes broad, obscure, and mucrouulate ; distinctly peltate. Bracts 

 rather large, reticulate, ^-1 in. diam., broadly ciliate. 



Lagos, etc., Barter I Fernando Po, Mann I Congo, Smith! ((?. hirta, Miers in Ann. 

 Nat. Hist. Ser. 3. xvii. 136, a variety with patent hairs on the stem and petioles.) C. zai- 

 rensis, Miers, 1. c, I think may also be a form of C. Pareira. 



Widely diffused throughout tropical America and Asia. It occurs at Natal. 



2. C. torulosa, E. Mey. in Herb. Drege. A slender climber. Leaves 

 reniform, with a very broad sinus or sometimes nearly truncate, and then 

 semiorbicular ; the petiole usually inserted in a more or less produced often 

 cuneate central portion of the sinus, often slightly within the margin. Male 

 cymes on filiform peduncles. 



Mozamb. Distr. Moramballa, 3000 ft., Br. Kirk! 



Occurs also in the eastern districts of the Cape and at Natal. Perhaps a variety of C. 

 Pareira. 



3. C. iusolita, Miefs in Ann. Nat. Hist. Ser. 3. xvii. 136. A slender 

 climber. Leaves peltate, rotundate- or deltoid-cordate, acute obtuse or 

 shortly acuminate, firmly membranous, glabrous, rather shining and reticu- 

 lated above, paler and minutely puberulous beneath, 8-4 in. broad, on slender 

 petioles of 1^-2 in. Male flowers in slender, axillary, somewhat cymose, 

 pubescent panicles, l|-2 in. long in our specimens. Bracts and bracteoles 

 minute. Female flowers and fruit unknown. 



Upper Guinea. Corisco Bay, Mann ! 



7. STEPHANIA, Lour. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PL i. 37. 



Sepals of the male flowers 6 (or more), in two series ; of the female 

 flowers 3 (or 4). Petals 3(-5), free, shorter thau the sepals. Male fl. : 

 Anthers 6, united into a peltate polliniferous disk, continuous round the mar- 

 gin in dehiscence, supported upon a short column. Female fl. : Carpel soli- 

 tary, with 3 short, divergent, linear styles. Drupes compressed, with the 

 scar of the style near to the base. Putamen tubercled or transversely ridged. 

 Embryo linear, horseshoe-shaped, with appressed cotyledons, in a small quan- 

 tity of albumen. — Leaves usually peltate. Fiowers umbellate or (in S. ? Ica- 

 tificata) in long slender panicles. 



