v. MENISPERMACE^E. (Hook. f. & Thorns.) 95 



* Drapes with a terminal or subterminal style-scar. 



Sepals 12 ; filaments connate 1. ASPIDOCARYA. 



Sepals 6 ; filaments connate 2. PARAB^ENA. 



Sepals 6 ; petals 6 ; filaments free 3. TINOSPORA. 



Sepals 9 ; petals 6 ; filaments free 4. TINOMISCIDM. 



Sepals 6 ; petals ; filaments free 5. FIBRAUREA. 



* Drupes with a subbasal style-scar. 



Sepals 6 ; filaments all connate 6. ANAMIRTA. 



Sepals 9 ; outer filaments free 7. COSCINIUM. 



TRIBE II. Cocculeae. Flowers 3-merous. Ovaries usually 3. Drupe 

 with a subbasal rarely subterminal style-scar. Seed horse-shoe shaped, 

 albumen copious ; embryo slender, cotyledons linear or slightly dilated. 



Petals 6, minute ; ovaries 3-12 ; style subulate 8. TILIACORA. 



Petals 5-8 ; ovaries 3 ; styles compressed 9. LIMACIA. 



Petals 6; ovaries 3-6; styles subulate 10. COCCULUS. 



Petals 6 ; ovaries 3; styles forked 11. PERICAMPYLUS. 



TRIBE III. Cissampelidese. Flowers 3-5-merous. Ovaries usually 

 solitary. Drupe with a subbasal style-scar ; endocarp dorsally muricate or 

 echinate. Seed horse-shoe shaped, albumen scanty ; embryo linear, cotyle- 

 dons appressed. 



Sepals 6-10, free; petals of $ and ? 3-5 free 12. STEPHANIA. 



Sepals 4, free; petals of $ 4 connate, of ? 1 13. CISSAMPELOS. 



Sepals 4-8, connate ; petals of $ 4-8 connate, of ? 1 . . .14. CYCLEA. 

 Sepals 4-8, connate ; petals of <J 0, of ? 2 saccate .... 15. LOPHOPHYLI.UM. 



TRIBE IV. Padiyg-oneae. Flowers, usually 3-merous. Ovaries usually 

 3. Drupes with a subbasal or ventral style-scar. Seed curved hooked or 

 inflexed, albumen ; cotyledons thick fleshy. 



Sepals, petals and stamens, 6 each 16. PACHYGONE. 



Sepals and petals 6 each ; stamens 9 17. PYCHARRHENA. 



Sepals 9-12 ; petals and stamens 6 each 18. HJEMATOCARPCS. 



Sepals 8 ; petals 2 ; stamens 4 19. ANTITAXIS. 



1. ASFZBOCAHITA, H. f. & T. 



A climber. Flowers in slender panicles. Sepals 12, 2-4-seriate, inner 

 broader. Petals 6, short, cuneate. MALE fl. : Anthers 6, encircling the 

 top of the staminal column, bursting transversely. FEMALE fl. : Stami- 

 nodes 6, 'clavate. Ovaries 3 ; stigmas subcapitate. Drupes dorsally com- 

 pressed, style-scar terminal ; endocarp much compressed, keeled dorsally, 

 not intruded,' margins winged, toothed. Seed oblong, flat; cotyledons folia- 

 ceous, base divaricate, then parallel. 



1. A. uvifera, H.f. & T.Fl. 2nd. 180; leaves subpeltate ovate-cordate, 

 Miers Contrib. iii. 58, t. 99. 



Subtropical forests of SIKKIM, alt. 1-5000 ft., H. /. & T. 



Branches slender, terete. Leaves 4-6 by 3-6 in., long-acuminate, tip obtuse, base 

 sometimes subsagittate, nerves beneath hairy; petiole 3-4 in., cylindric. Panicles 

 4-8 in., pubescent. Sepals greenish, ciliate. Petals concave. Drupes f-1 in. ; en- 

 docarp woody, fragile. 



2. FARABJENA, Miers. 



A climber, juice milky. Flowers in axillary dichotomous cymes. Sejxils 6, 

 subequal. Petals much smaller. MALE fl. : Anthers 6, horizontal, encircling 



