4 TTT. MENISPERMACE.'E. 



sally tubercled, hollowed on both sides. — Benth. and IIooJc. 

 Gen. PI. p. 37. Homocnemia, Fl. Cap. i. p. 10. 



A single species, Homocnemia Meyeriaua, Miers, from Natal. A vine- 

 like twiner, with peltate, ovate-orbicular, many-nerved, pubescent leaves. 

 Flowers in umbels. 



2. CISSAMPELOS, Linn. 



Flowers dioecious. Male : Sepals 4, separate. Corolla 

 cup-shaped, nearly entire, shorter than the sepals (composed 

 of 4 confluent petals). Staminal column peltate at the apex ; 

 anthers 4-12, sessile in a marginal ring. Female : Sepal 1, 

 anterior. Petal 1 (or 2 confluent) in front of the sepal, clasp- 

 ing the ovary. Carpel 1 ; style 3-fid. Drupe kidney-shaped ; 

 nut compressed and wrinkled at edges. — Fl. Cap. i. p. 10. 



Mostly twining, slender, shrubby plants. Leaves simple, petioled, en- 

 tire, ovate reniform or cordate, often peltate. Male flower in cymes ; 

 female racemose, densely tufted in the axils of leafy bracts. — 3 Cape spe- 

 cies, 2 of which are confined to the Eastern district and Natal. 



3. ANTIZOMA, Miers. 



FloAvers dioecious. Male flower as in Cissampelos. Female : 

 Sepals 2, opposite, very concave, fleshy, slightly imbricate in 

 bud. Petals 2, opposite the sepals, minute, scale-Hke, orbi- 

 cular, fleshy, hypogynous. Carpel 1, obovate ; style none ; 

 stigma obsolete or bluntly 2-lobed. Fruit unknown. — Fl. Cap. 

 i. p. 11. 



Endemic. Suberect or twining shrubs. Leaves linear or lanceolate, en- 

 tire, opaque, leathery, on very short petioles ; the petiole armed at base 

 with a dorsal spur-like spine. — 5 reputed species (probably over-estimated), 

 from the Northern and North-Eastern frontiers. 



Oedee IV. NYMPHJEACE^. 



Flowers bisexual, large and shoAvy. Petals numerous, in 

 several rows. Stamens many ; filaments flat ; anthers adnata. 

 Carpels numerous, sunk in a fleshy torus, and thus concreted 

 into a many-celled ovary. — " "Water-lilies." Leaves on long 

 stalks, cordate or peltate. 



1. NYMPH^A, Linn. 



Sepals 4, at the base of the fleshy torus, in which the carpels 

 are sunk. Petals and stamens numerous, in several rows, co- 

 vering the sides of the torus. Ovary many-celled ; stigmas 

 sessile, radiating. Berry leather-coated, irregularly bursting ; 

 seeds many, lodged in pulp. 

 Water-plants, with submerged prostrate rootstocks, throwing up leaves 



