102 v. MENISPERMACE.E. (Hook. f. & Thorns.) [Cocndus. 



tiole \ in. Panicles loosely villous ; bracts minute, linear. Drupes black -purple, endo- 

 carp acutely keeled, tubercled. 



4. C. znollis, Wall. Cat. 4973 ; branchlets pubescent, leaves ovate acute 

 or acuminate white and villous beneath, panicles few-flowered. Nephroica 

 mollis, Miers Contrib. iii. 265. 



NIPAL, Wallich; KHASIA HILLS, alt. 5000 ft., H.f. & T. 



Branchlets striate. Leaves 2-4 by 14-2 in., of shoots often obtuse, base cordate or 

 truncate, bright green above, at length glabrate ; petiole f-1 in. Pun Me* axillary or 

 nearly so, on a tomentose tubercle, shorter than the leaves, males irrmilar eynx se, 

 cymes 4-7-nWered, bracts filiform ; females 1-3-Howm-d. Petals notched. Drupes 

 pisiform, compressed; endocarp keeled, with i rows of tubercles. 



5. C. Xieceba, DC. Prodr. i. 9 ; branchlets? puberulous, leaves linear- 



oblong oblong or trapezoid entire or loU-d i;lal>rate. flowers fascicled iu the 

 axils, females subsolitary. 11. f. <(' T. /'/. I ml. 1:J : J//V/-.< C"i'frii>. iii. <>(!. 

 C. laevis, Wall. Cat. 4975. C. glabra, W. & A. Prudr. i. 13 ; M'tn-s I.e. 257. 

 C. recisus, Miers I.e. 258. 



Drier parts of Western India ; the PUNJAB, SJNDII, and the CAKNATIC. DISTRIB. 

 Affghanistan, Arabia, trop. and subtrop. Africa. 



Brancldets long, slender. l by \-\ in., very variable, angles rounded, 



sometimes 3-5-lobed, usually olitiiM- and niiHT.<na-r, 1,;^,.- riinrate or roiin>lei), voting 

 hoary, old often glaucous on both surfaces; pedioels J ] in. I-'l>jtL\-rs fascicled on wundy 

 tubercles, pedicels 1-flowered, males dense. Jfriijng /, -^ in. 



11. FSRZCAMFirZiUS, Miers. 



A climbing shrub. / bpeltate, petioles slender, articulate. /' 



in axillary cymes. ,sVy^//.s- r., with :J brarts, outer smaller, inner spathulate. 

 Petals 6, cum-ate. MALI: tl. : >Vf////r//.s (;, filaments cylindric ; anthers ud- 

 nate, bursting transversely. YtXJLlKiL : Staminode* f>, chivate. Uc<iri>s 

 3; styles 2-partite, sc-int nts subulatf. />/-//yx sub.i:lt)lsc{ ; endocarp 

 horseshoe-shaped, dorsally created and ediinate, sides excavated. &ed 

 curved; cotyledons elongate flat, scarcely broader than the radicle. 



1. P. incanus, Mifrs Omtrilt. iii. 118, t. 3; leaves suborbicular ob- 

 tusa acute or retusc. I', aduncns, assamicus, an<l nienil>ranaeeiis, Mi<-r*l.c. 

 119-122. Cocculus incanus, !/ '> in 7'/v///x. A/////. ,W. xiii. 57. C 

 pelos matiritiana, Wall. Cat. 4980 (not of DC.). Menisp. villosum, tt.>-l>. 

 Fl. Ind. iii. 812 (not of Lam/c.). 



SIKKIM, ASSAM, the KHAHIA UILLS, CHITTAQOXQ and throughout the EASTERN 

 PENINSULA. DISTRIB. Java. 



Branchlets toinentose, then glabrate. Leaves 2-4 in. .diara., base truncate or sub- 

 cordate ; petiole 1-2 in. Cymes 2-3-chotomous, often many and superposed ; pe- 

 duncles 1-2 in., axillary, many-flowered ; bracts subulate, tit-pals villous. JPetals acute 

 or obtuse, margins incurved. Drupes red. 



12. STEPHANIA, Loureiro. 



Climbing shrubs. Leaves usually peltate. Flowers in axillary, cymose 

 umbels. MALE fl. : Sepals 6-10, free, ovate or obovate. Petals 3-5, obovate, 

 fleshy. Anthers 6, connate, encircling the top of the staminal column; 

 bursting transversely. FEM. fl. : Sepals 3-5. Petals of the male. Maini- 

 Tiodes 0. Ovary 1 ; style 3-6-partite. Drupe glabrous ; endocarp com- 

 pressed, horseshoe-shaped, dorsally tubercled, sides hollowed and per- 

 forated. Seed almost annular ; cotyledons long, slender, ^-terete, appressed. 

 DISTKIB. Tropics of the Old World 



