104 v. MENISPERMACE.E. (Hook. f. & Thorns.) [Cissampelos. 



large reniformor orbicular bracts, drupes subglobose hirsute. DC. Prodr. i. 

 100; H.f. & T.Fl.Ind. 198; Miers Contrib. iii. 139. C. caapeba, Linn.; 

 Roxb. Fl.Ind. iii. 842. C. convolvulacea, II7/A/. ; \Y>.dl. ( 1 t. 4<.)7'J ; \Y. <c A. 

 Prodr. i 14; Roxb. I.e. 842. C. orbiculata, discolor, and hirsuta, Buck.; 

 DC. I.e. 101. C. hernandifolia, Wall. Cat. 4979, partly. C. obtecta, Wall. 

 Cat. 4981. C. diversa, elata, grallatoria, eriantha, and delicatula, Miers I.e. 

 187-197. C. subpeltata, T/twaite* A'// >///*. 13 and 399 ; Miers I.e. 195. Menisp. 

 orbiculatum, Linn. Cocculus orbiculatus, DC. I.e. 98. C. villosus, Wall. 

 Cat. 4957 in part, and C. membranaceus 4967 (diseased state). 



Tropical and subtropical India, from SIXDII and the PUNJAB to CEYLON and SIN- 

 GAPORE. DISTRIB. Cosmopolitan in warm regions. 



A lofty climber; branchlets rarely glabrous. Leaves 1-4 in. dium., usually peltate, 

 obtuse and mucronate, rarely acute, base truncate or more or less cordate ; petiole 

 equalling the leaf or longer. Male cymes -14 in. (sometimes replaced by a shoot with 

 small leaves and small axillary cymes), axillary or nearly so, usually 2-3 superposed, 

 decompound ; bracts minute, rarely foliaceous ; peduncle slender, pubescent tomentose 

 or hirsute. Fern, racemes 1-2, axillary ; bracts lax ur densely imbricate, usually hoary, 

 sometimes petioled; pedicels very short. (h->irir* rarely --Iain-ate, /h-iijn: } in. diam., 

 scarlet. A careful reconsideration of the materials disease.] in " Flora Indira," with 

 many additional specimens, and an ei^ht years' further familiarity in India with both 

 native and cultivated forms, convince us that the view taken in the above work (which 

 is that of Eichlcr, Uentham, and Thwaites) is not invalidated by the vigorous attacks 

 of our friend Mr. Miers. 



14. CYCLEA, Arnott. 



Climbing shrubs. Leaves usually peltate. /Vtj'r/'.s- in axillary panicles ; 

 MALE n. : <&y*zfo4-8, connate into an inflated 4-gJlobed calyx. Petals 4-H, 

 more or less connate into a 4-o-lobed corolla. A/ithcr* 4-(!, connate, 

 crowning the staininal column, bursting transversely. FKM. il. : ,S'/W 1, 

 oblong. Petal 1, orbicular. Oitiryl; style short, 3-5-lobed, lobes radiating. 

 Drupf ovoid, style-scar sul>l>a>al ; endpcaip Imrscshor shaped, dorsally 

 tubercled, sides convex B-locellate(aa in Limwin). Seed curved; cotyledons 

 slender, \ -terete, appressed. DISTRLB. Tropical Asia. 



1. C. Burmanni, Mlcrs Cntril>. iii. 239,' t. 121 ; leaves peltate elon- 

 gate-deltoid acuminate base cordate or subsagittate suprepand, calyx 

 subglobose 6-8-lobed, corolla nrceolate sul>entire. 11. f. <(- T. Ft. In<l. -j>(}\. 

 Cocculus Burmanni, DC. Prmlr. i. J)f;. Clypea Burmanni, W. & A. I'mdr. 

 in part ; Burm. Fl. Zeyl. t. lol. llhaptonieris Burmanni, J//'tr.s //* Tayl. 

 Ann. Ser. 2, vii. 41. 



CONCAN, Gibson; and CEYLON, ascending to 2600 ft. 



Branches pilose or glabrate. Leaves 2^1 by : -2 in., thin, coriaceous, shining above, 

 usually pubescent beneath; petiole 4~li m - Panicles equalling or exceeding the 

 leaves, many-lowered, pubescent. J//< jl. and drupe pilose. Calyx much exceeding 

 the corolla. 



2. C. peltata, //./. A- T. FL Ind. 201 ; leaves peltate deltoid acute or 

 subacute, calyx campanulate 4-lobed, corolla an irregularly 4-lobed cup. 

 Miers Contrib. iii. 236. C. barbata, versicolor, Arnottii, laxifiora, and 

 debiliflora, Miers I.e. 237-242. Menisp. peltatum, Land: Cocculus peltatus, 

 DC. Prodr. i. 96. Cissampelos discolor, Wall. Cat. 4892, in part. C. 

 barbata, Wall. Cat. 4978. Clypea Burmanni, W. & A. Prodr. i 74 in part. 

 Cyclea Burmanni, Arnott in Wight III. i. 22. Rhaptomeris Burmanni, 

 Miers in Tayl. Ann. Ser. 2, vii. 41. Itheede Hort. Mai. vii. t. 49. 



