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1. CYCLEA PELTATA, Diels (not of Hook. f. & Thorns.). C. Bur- 

 manni, Hook. f. & Thorns.; F. B. I. i. 104; Cooke Fl. 

 Bomb. i. 23. 



W. Ghats from S. Canara to Tinnevelly, up to 3,000 ft. ; 

 Hills of Mysore and N. Arcot, up to 3,000 ft. 



2. CYCLEA ARNOTTII, Miers. C. peltata, Hook. f. & Thorns. ; 

 F. B. I. i. 104 (not Menispermum peltatuin. Lam.). 



W. Ghats in S. Canara, Coorg, Wynaad, Nilgiris, Anamalais 

 and Tinnevelly Hills, up to 6,000 ft. 



3. CYCLEA FISSICALYX, Dunn. C. peltata, Cooke Fl. Bomb. i. 24 

 (not of Hook f. & Thorns, nor of Diels). 



Forests of Wynaad in Malabar. 



10. Pachygone, Miers. 



A climbing shrub. Flowers in axillary racemes. Sepals 6, in 

 2 whorls, outer smaller. Petals 6, much smaller, bases auricled 

 and embracing the filaments. S Stamens 6, filament incurved, 

 anthers subglobose, didymous, bursting transversely; rudimentary 

 carpels 3, minute. ? Staminodes 6 ; ovaries 3 ; styles stout, 

 horizontal. Drupes reniform ; style -scar sub-basal ; endocarp 

 reniform, rugulose. Seed horseshoe-shaped ; albumen ; cotyle- 

 dons semi-terete, very thick, hard ; radicle very short. 



PACHYGONE OVATA, Miers ; F. B. I. i. 105. Cocculus Plukenetii, 

 DC. ; W. & A. i. 14 ; Wt. Ic. t. 824, 825. 



A large evergreen spreading shrub with long drooping or 



climbing branches and ovate blunt leaves. Flowers minute, 



white, honey-scented. Drupe '3 in. long. 



Sandy sea-shores on the Coromandel Coast from Nellore to 



Tanjore and Tinnevelly ; Deccan in Bellary, Cuddapah and 



Mysore. 



Family YI. BERBERIDACEAE. 



Glabrous herbs or shrubs, sometimes climbing. Leaves 1-many- 

 foliolate. Stipules petiolar or usually 0. Flowers hermaphro- 

 dite or rarely diclinous, regular, axillary, solitary or in simple or 

 compound racemes, usually yellow or white, all members inserted 

 on the receptacle. Sepals often petaloid, 3-9, in 1-3 whorls, 

 imbricate or the outer rarely valvate. Petals equal in number to 

 the sepals or twice as many, and, like them, caducous, nectar- 

 iferous at the base or reduced to nectaries. Stamens (4-) 6 (-8) 



