30 FLORA OF MADRAS. [Stephania. 



2. STEPHANIA WIGHTII, Dunn. 8. rotunda, Hook, f . & Thorns. ; 

 F. B. I. i. 103 not of Lour. Clypea Wiglitii, Arn. in 

 Wt. 111. i. 22. 



Forests of the W. Ghats, in Malabar, Nilgiris and 



Tinnevelly. 



8. Cissampelos, Linn. 



Suberect or climbing shrubs. Leaves often peltate. Flowers : 

 cT cymose; sepals 4 (-5-6), erose ; petals 4, connate, forming a 

 4-lobed cup ; anthers 4, connate round the flattened top of the 

 staminal column, bursting horizontally : ? racemed, crowded in 

 the axils of leafy bracts; sepals 2 (or sepal and petal 1 each), 

 2-nerved, adnate to the bracts ; stamiiiodes ; 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, 

 semi-terete, appressed. 



CISSAMPELOS PAREIRA, Linn. ; F. B. I. i. 103. C. convolvulacea, 

 Willd. ; W. & A. 14. 



A more or less tomentose climber with rotund usually cordate 

 leaves, about equal in length to their petioles. Flowers 

 greenish. Bracts of female racemes often densely imbricate. 

 Cymes of male flowers 1-2 in. long, decompound. Drupes 

 scarlet, hirsute. 

 In almost all Districts, very common. 



9. Cyclea, Arn. 



Climbing shrubs. Leaves usually peltate. Flowers in axillary 

 panicles : c? Sepals 4-8, connate into a 4-5-lobed calyx ; petals 

 4-8, more or less connate into a 4-5-lobed corolla ; anthers 4-6, 

 connate round the rim of the disk-like top of the staminal column, 

 bursting horizontally : ? Calyx globose or campanulate, lobed ; 

 corolla globular ; ovary 1, style short, 3-5 -lobed, lobes radiating. 

 Drupe ovoid ; style-scar sub-basal ; endocarp horseshoe-shaped, 

 2-locellate, dorsally tubercled, sides convex. Seed curved; coty- 

 ledons slender, semi-terete, appressed. 



Calyx globose or broadly campanulate, lobes J of tube; anther 6-8- 



celled 1. peltata. 



Calyx campanulate, lobes J of tube ; anthers 4-celled 2. Arnottii. 



Calyx campanulate, divided nearly to the base 3. fissicalycc. 



