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terminal but often becoming basilar by the curvature of the ovary ; 

 ovules solitary or very rarely 2, ventral, usually amphitropous. 

 liipe carpels drupaceous, with the style-scar sub-basal or some- 

 times terminal, sessile or stalked. Seed solitary, usually reniform 

 or horseshoe-shaped ; albumen copious or 0, even or ruminate ; 

 cotyledons linear or broad, appresscd or spreading. 



Key to Male Specimens. 



Flowers sessile, in 'globose solitary or rucemed heads ; stamens, 3 free, 



3 connate 3. Goscinium. 



Flowers stalked, or, if sessile, in panicled or umbelled heads ; stamens 

 all free or all connate : 



Stamens connate, anthers in a terminal head or ring : 



Flowers in stalked solitary or umbellate heads ; anthers on the rim 



of a stalked disk 7. Stephania. 



Flowers in panicles : 



Anthers in a globular head ; petals 2. Anamirta. 



Anthers in a ring ; petals connate : 



Calyx campanulate 1) . Cyclea. 



Calyx of 4 spreading sepals 8. Cissampelos. 



Stamens free: 



Laaves deeply cordate 1. Tinospora. 



Leaves acute, obtuse, or subuordate at base : 



Flowers - 1 in. long; anthers oblong, opening down the sides 



4. Tiliacora. 

 Flowers '05 in. long ; anthers globose, opening across the top : 



Panicles up to 1 ft. long, drooping 5. Diploclisia. 



Flowers in racemes, or short, erect panicles or axillary 

 fascicles : 



Flowers in small fascicles or cymes 6. Cocculus. 



Flowers in slender racemes 10. Pachygone. 



Key to Female Specimens. 



Style-scar terminal 1. Tinospora. 



Style-scar basal: 



Flowers sessile, in globose solitary or racemed heads ...3. Coscinium. 

 Flowers in a raceme of small cymes subtended by foliaceous cordate 



bracts; drupes hirsute 8. Cissampelos. 



Flowers in compound umbels or panicles : 

 Ovary solitary : 

 Flowers in panicles J). Cyclea. 



