542 FLORA OF MADRAS. \_Cerasiocarpum.. 



W. GMts, in S.-E. Wynaad, near Devala, at 3,000 ft. 



(Gamble). 



A pretty climber with membranous leaves up to 5 in. long, 



2*5 in. broad, dentate and acuminate, sometimes hastate at 



base, the fruit bright orange-red. 



14. Gynostemma, Blume. 



Slender climbing herbs ; tendrils simple. Leaves pedately 

 3-7-foliolate, leaflets ovate-lanceolate. Flowers minute, white 

 or greenish, dioecious or rarely monoecious, in diffuse axillary 

 panicles ; pedicels articulate, bracteolate. Calyx rotate, 5-partite ; 

 lobes short. Corolla rotate, 5-partite ; lobes lanceolate. Stamens 

 5, inserted at the bottom of the calyx ; filaments connate in a 

 column below ; anthers 2-celled ; staminodes in $. 0. Ovary 

 spherical, 2-3-celled ; ovules 2 in each cell, pendulous ; styles 

 2-3, bifid at tip ; pistillodes in ? 0. Fruit a globose, indehiscent, 

 1-3-seeded berry. Seeds ovoid or triangular, flattened, verrucose. 

 GYNOSTEMMA PEDATA, Blume ; F. B. I. ii. 633 ; Trim. Fl. 

 Ceyl. t. 45. 



W. Ghats, Nilgiri Hills at 4,000-6,000 ft.; hills of Tinnevelly 



(Beddome). 



A slender climber with long flower- and fruit-panicles, the 



leaflets vine-like, crenate- serrate, the berry greenish. 



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15. Zanonia, Linn. 



Scandent shrubs ; tendrils simple or bifid at the apex. Leaves 

 petiolate, ovate or oblong, entire. Flowers small, dioecious, all 

 racemose or the <$ panicled. Calyx of 3, rarely 4, sepals, broadly 

 oblong or orbicular, membranous, concave. Corolla rotate, 5- 

 partite, coriaceous or fleshy ; lobes narrowed at the apex. Stamens 

 5, free, inserted on a fleshy disk ; filaments very short and thick ; 

 anthers transversely oblong, 1-celled ; staminodes in $ short, 

 alternate with the petals. Ovary elongate, at first 3-celled, later 

 1-celled by absorption of the septa ; ovules 2-many in each cell, 

 on parietal placentas, pendulous ; styles 3, bifid at apex ; pistil- 

 lode in (J 0. Fruit cylindric clavate or hemispheric, terete or 

 subtrigonous, truncate and broadly 3-valved at apex. Seeds large, 

 pendulous, oblong, compressed, imbricate, surrounded by a broad 

 membranous wing. 



