MENISPERMA CEM. 3 



the female flowers the perianth is the same ; but the androceum 

 differs by the absence of the anthers or their becoming narrow, 

 elongated and sterile. 1 The gynseceum consists of three carpels, 

 each consisting of a free ovary surmounted by a reflexed style that 

 tapers to its stigmatiferous apex. In the ventral angle of the 

 single cell of each ovary is a placenta bearing, on anthesis, 2 a single 

 descending anatropous ovule, whose micropyle looks upwards and 

 outwards. The multiple fruit consists of three rounded reniform 

 drupes, with the scar of the style brought down near the base. 3 Under 

 the thin fleshy mesocarp is a stone whose depressed sides send 

 inwards an unequally perforated or solid projection {condyle of 

 Miers), the base of which is near that of the fruit. The back of 

 the seed is uneven and tuberculate ; its cavity contains a bowed 

 seed, moulded on the internal prominence of the stone. Within the 

 seed-coat is a fleshy albumen, containing in its axis a narrow curved 

 embryo, with linear, somewhat flattened cotyledons, and a superior 

 conical radicle. 



The fruits of C. macrocarjpus* are obovate and more elongated than 

 usual ; this species has been made into a distinct genus Diploclisia? 

 which we only retain as a section. In C. incanits* the styles, of 

 variable form, are often subulate and bipartite ; this too has been 

 made into a distinct genus Pericampylos? Ln C. cuspidatus* and some 

 allied species, 9 the stamens, more swollen at the apex, have their 

 cells more elongated and nearer the vertical, while the internal pro- 

 minences of the stone contain a more distinct cavity ; this dis- 

 tinguishes Limacia, 10 whereof we propose to make another section of 

 the genus Cocctdtus, as their organization is otherwise similar. 



1 The two cells and the groove separating * Wight & Ar>-., Prodr., i. 13. — Walp., 

 them may often be distinguished, bat there is no Rep., i. 94-, n. 15. 



pollen, in the cultivated plants hermaphrodite 5 MzBBS, in An,i. Xaf. Hist., ser. 2, vii. 42 ; 



flowers occar (fig. 3), with ovules in the ser. 3, xix - 



ovaries, and a variable number of fertile 6 Colebe., in Trans. Linn. 8oc, xiii. 57 '. — 



stamens. Ch/pea corymbom Bl., Bijdr^ 24. — M 



2 When youn? there are two ovules, and spermum cillosum Roxb., Ft. Ind., iii. 812 (nee 

 Pateb (Traite d'Organog. Comp. de la Fleur, Lake.). — CUsampetos Wallichiana Wall., 

 243, t. 53) noticed them in Coeculus, lTe,,i- Cat., n. 4980 (nee DC). 



tpertmum, and Cissampelos. We have seen them " aTxees, in Ann. Xaf. Hist., ser. 2, vii. 40 ; ser. 



{Adawonia, ii. 320) in Burasaia madagas- 3, xiv. 369. — B. H.. Gen., 37, 961, n. 17. — Legne- 



cariensis and Jateorhiza strigosa Miees (Adan- phora aIiees, in Ann. Xat. Hint., ser. 3, xiv. - -. 



ionia, v. 365), and Geiffith has in Fibraurea. (A doubtful synonym of Pselium, p. 20, not. 6.) 

 We shall see that they persist all along in Ade- 8 Wall., Cat., n. 4!> . 



liopsus. 9 Such as C. velutinm Wall., triandrtu 



3 This incurvation of the pericarp is thus Colebe., oblongus Wall. 



comparable with the campvlotropv of ovules. 10 Locb., FL CocMnch., 62 r >. — M^iees, in 



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