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Seed subglobose, hollow within ; albumen ruminated, fleshy, oily, 

 embryo almost straight ; radicle small ; cotyledons divaricate, deeply 

 laciniate. — Stems climbing j leaves large peltate ; flowers capitate ; 

 capitula globose pedunculate {Tropical Asia). See p. 15. 



IV. CISSAMPELIDEJS. 



28. Oissampelos L. — Flowers dioecious. Calyx of male 4-leaved, 

 valvate. Corolla (?) short, cupuliform, subentire or crenate. Stamens 

 connate into a short peltate column at apex ; anther-cells 4, sessile 

 at margin, transversely rimose. Female flower unsymmetrical ; 

 sepal 1 (" bracteole ") unilateral ; petal 1, opposite sepal, entire or 

 2-fid. Carpel 1, excentric, free; ovary 1 -celled; ovules 2 inserted 

 on placenta placed before petal and sepal ; one hemitropous, de- 

 scending ; micropyle superior; other minute abortive, or even 0; 

 style 3-dentate or 3-fid ; lobes 2-fid. Drupes subglobose or 

 obovoid, very hippocrepiform ; scar of style a little way from base ; 

 putamen campylotropous compressed, tuberculate at back ; hollowed 

 on each side ; process intruded. Seed hippocrepiform ; albumen 

 fleshy, delicate ; embryo linear ; cotyledons oppressed. — Shrubs or 

 undershrubs, climbing or rarely erect ; leaves alternate, varying ; 

 male flowers in much-branched cymes ; female flowers in often 

 shorter cymiferous racemes ; inflorescences small, usually fascicled at 

 axils of rounded bracts ; or more rarely cymes of either sex short 

 and few-flowered [Throughout the Tropical Region). See p. 1(3. 



29. Cyclea Arn. — Sepals of male flowers 4-8 united into a cam- 

 panulate tubular or inflated-globose calyx. Petals as many, more or 

 less united. Stamens connate at apex into a central peltate column ; 

 anthers as many as sepals, adnate at margin, 1-locular and trans- 

 versely rimose. Calyx of female flower with one sepal ; petals 

 2 lateral. Carpel 1 ; style 3-5-fid. Drupes ovoid or subglobose ; 

 scar of style a little way from base ; putamen tuberculate at back ; 

 process intruded from either side, enclosing 2 spurious cells. Seed 

 hippocrepiform ; embryo sparsely albuminous ; cotyledons appressed. 

 — Leaves peltate or cordate ; flowers in much-branched racemes 

 {Tropical Asia). See p. 18. 



