24 FLORA OF MADRAS. [Orophen. 



Outer petals, pedicels and young parts shaggy ; carpels oblong, red. 



v 1. erytlirocarpa. 



Outer petals and young parts pubescent or glabrous ; carpels globose : 



Pedicels under ! in. long, in nearly sessile clusters 2. Thomsoni. 



Pedicels more than *2 in. long : 



Buds and young shoots shortly tomentose ; stamens 6. ..3. zeylanica. 

 Buds and young shoots glabrous ; leaves 1-5-2-5 in. long, ovate ; 

 stamens 12 4. uniflora. 



1. OROPHEA ERYTHROCARPA, Bedd. Ic. t. 68 ; F. B. I. i. 91 ; King 

 Ann. Calc. iv. 103, t. 145A. 



Forests of the W. Ghats in the Anamalais and Travancore, 

 up to 2,000 ft. 



2. OROPHEA THOMSONI, Bedd. Ic. t. 67 ; F. B. I. i. 91 ; King Ann. 

 Calc. iv. 103, t. 144s. 



Forests of the W. Ghats in the Anamalais and down to 

 Tinnevelly, up to 2,500 ft. 



3. OROPHEA ZEYLANICA, Hook. f. & Thorns. ; F. B. I. i. 90 ; Bedd. 

 Ic. t. 70 ; King Ann. Calc. iv. 104, t. 146B. 



Coorg and Mysore. 



4. OROPHEA UNIFLORA, Hook. f. & Thorns. ; F. B. I. i. 90 ; Bedd. 

 Ic. t. 69 ; King Ann. Calc. iv. 102, t. 144A. 



Forests of the W. Ghats from Coorg through Wynaad to 

 Travancore and Tinnevelly, up to 4,000 ft. 



Family Y. MENISPERMACEAE. 



Climbing or twining shrubs or occasionally herbs, or very rarely 

 erect shrubs or small trees. Leaves alternate, simple or very 

 rarely compound, entire or lobed, usually palminerved, often 

 peltate ; stipules 0. Flowers dioecious, small, solitary, fascicled 

 capitate or cymose or more frequently raceined or panicled, some- 

 times bracteate, occasionally 3-bracteolate. Sepals 6, in 2 whorls, 

 or 9-12 in 3-4 whorls, rarely fewer than 6 and very rarely 5. outer 

 often minute, occasionally all connate into a toothed or lobed cup. 

 Petals never more than 6, rarely fewer, free or connate or 0. 

 J Stamens usually of the same number as, and opposite to, the 

 petals ; filaments free, with extrorse or vertically dehiscing anthers, 

 or connate with anthers capitate or on the rim of a terminal disk ; 

 rudimentary carpels very small or 0. ? Staminodes 6 or ; 

 ovaries 3 or sometimes 1, rarely 6-12 ; styles simple or divided, 



