Stcpliania.} V. MENISPERMACE2E, (Hook. f. & Thorns.) 103 



1. S. hernandifolia, Walp. Rep. i. 96 ; branchlets glabrous, leaves 

 ovate or subdeltoid acute obtuse or acuminate, umbels capitate. H.f. & T. 

 Fl. Lid. 196 ; Miers Contrib. iii. 222. S. intertexta, latifplia, and hypo- 

 glauca, Miers I.e. 224, 226, 227. Cissampelos hernandifolia, Willd. ; DC. 

 Prodr. i. 100 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 842; Wall Cat. 4977 D, E,F, G, H, K. 

 C. discolor, DQ. l.c i. 101. C. hexandra, Roxb. I.e. iii. 842. Clypea her- 

 nandifolia, W. & A. Prodr. i. 14 ; Wight Ic. t. 939. 



From NIPAL to CHITTAGONG, SINGAPORE, and CEYLON. DISTRIB. Malay Islands, 

 trop. Australia, Africa. 



Jtiranclilets striate. Leaves 3-6 in. diam., base truncate or subcordate, glabrous or 

 thinly pubescent below only or on both surfaces, pale or glaucous beneath; petiole l^-> 

 4 in. Peduncles axillary, short or long; rays 8-12, with subulate bracts. Sepals 

 obovate, obtuse. Petals 3-4. Drupes red. There are two marked varieties, the 

 Northern and Eastern, with peduncles and leaves beneath more or less pubescent, and 

 the Western one with these parts nearly glabrous. 



2. S. eleg-ans, H.f. & T. Fl. Ind. 195; branchlets glabrous, leaves 

 elongate-deltoid acuminate base truncate or cordate, umbels lax long- 

 peduncled. Miers Contrib. iii. 227. 



SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA from KUMAON to SIKKIM, alt. 6-7000 ft. ; KHASIA HILLS, 

 H. f. & T. 



Branches slender, angled. Leaves 24-4 by 1-2^ in., sometimes obtuse, thin, coria- 

 ceous, pale beneath; petiole 1-2 in., slender. Umbels with many rays, sometimes 

 branched ; flowers purple or greenish, odour heavy. Sepals acuminate. Petals obovate. 

 Drupe small, red. 



3. S. rotunda, Lour. Fl. Cock. 747 ; branchlets glabrous, leaves broad- 

 ovate or suborbicular often repand or sinuate-lobed glabrous, umbels in lax 

 cymes. H.f. & T .Fl. Ind. 197 ; Miers Contrib. iii. 215. C. longa (Khasia 

 specimens], japonica, Roxburghiana, glabra, and glandulifera, Miers I.e. 213- 

 220, t. 119. Cocculus Roxburghianus, Wall. Cat. 4972 (not of DC.} ; W. & A. 

 Prodr. i. 450 in note. C. Finlaysonianus, Wall. Cat. 4974. Cissampelos 

 glabra, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 840. Clypea Wightii, Arn. in Wight III. i. 22. 



TROPICAL and TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, ascending to 7000 ft., from SINDH eastward 

 to the KHASIA HILLS and PEGU. .Southern hills of the WESTERN PENINSULA. DISTRIB. 

 Siam, Cochin-China. 



Roots subglobose. Leaves 3-7 in. diam., oltus3 acute or acuminate, pale beneath, 

 petiole 3-9 in. Peduncles variable, usually slender, of the females stout; rays of umbels 

 long or short ; bracts subulate ; flowers -4 in. diam., yellow. Sepals narrow cuneate, 

 puberulous. Petals shorter. Drupe pisiform. 



13. CISSAMPELOS, Linn. 



Suberect or climbing shrubs. Leaves often peltate. MALE fl. : cymose. 

 Sepals 4, (5-6) erose. Petals 4, connate, forming in 4-lobed cup. Anthers 

 4, connate, encircling the top of the staminal column, bursting transversely. 

 FEM. fl. : racemed, crowded in the axils of leafy bracts. iSepah 2 (or 

 sepal and petal 1 each), 2-nerved, adnate to the bracts. Staminodes 0. 

 Ovary 1 ; style short, 3-fid or 3-toothed. Drupe ovoid, style-scar sub- 

 basal; endocarp horseshoe-shaped, compressed, dorsally tubercled, sides 

 excavated. Seed curved ; embryo slender ; cotyledons narrow, f-terete, ap- 

 pressed. DISTKIB. All hot climates. 



1. C. Fareira, Linn. ; climbing, leaves orbicular-reniform or cordate, 

 male cymes long-peduncled many flowered hairy, female racemes with 



