26 FLORA OF MADRAS. [Tinospora. 



Flowers in umbellate heads or in solitary condensed cymes 



7. Stephania. 

 Ovaries 3-many : 



Drupes pedicelled on the receptacle : 

 Leaf -blade rotund-cordate, acuminate, less than twice the 



petiole; petals 2. Anamirta. 



Leaf-blade oblong-ovate, acute, seldom cordate, more than 4 



times the petiole; petals 6, minute 4. Tiliacora. 



Drupes sessile on the receptacle : 

 Drupes elongate, 1 in. long, panicles long, drooping 



5. Diploclisia. 

 Drupes pisiform, under -3 in. : 



Flowers in short erect panicles or subsolitary ; albumen 



fleshy 6. Cocculus. 



Flowers racemose ; albumen 10. Pachygone. 



1. Tinospora, Miers. 



Climbing shrubs. Kacernes or rarely panicles of usually pre- 

 cocious flowers, axillary terminal or from the old wood. Sepals 6, 

 2-seriate, inner larger. Petals 6, smaller, <3 Stamens 6, free ; 

 anther-cells connivent at the thickened top of the filament, burst- 

 ing longitudinally. ? Staminodes 6, clavate ; ovaries 8 ; stigmas 

 forked. Drupes ventrally flat, dorsally convex, round or oval ; 

 style- scar subterminal ; endocarp rugose or tubercled, dorsally 

 keeled, ventrally concave. Seed grooved ventrally or curved 

 round a 2-lobed intrusion of the endocarp ; albumen ventrally 

 ruminate ; cotyledons foliaceous, ovate, spreading. 



TINOSPORA CORDIFOLIA, Miers ; F. B. I. i. 97. Cocculus cordi- 

 fotius, DC. ; W. & A. 12 ; Wt. Ic. t. 485-6. 



A climbing shrub with succulent stems, the bark papery at 

 first then corky ; leaves glabrous ; flowers yellow, on nodes 

 on the old wood ; drupes red, sessile ; endocarp with few 

 isolated tubercles or smooth. 



In forests and among trees in almost all Districts. Vern. 

 Hind. Goluncha ; Tel. Tippa tiga ; Tarn. Chintil. 



2. Anamirta, Colebr. 



Climbing shrubs. Flowers bibracteolate, panicled. Sepals 6. 

 Petals 0. c? Anthers capitate in many whorls on the top of the 

 staminal column, 2-celled, bursting transversely. ? Staminodes 



