6 4. ANONACE^. [Orophea^ 



OROPHEA, Blumc. 



Trees or shrubs. Flowers small, axillary solitary, fascicled or cy- 

 inose. Inner petals clawed, cohering into a uDitriform cap. Stamens 

 6-12, fleshy. Ovaries 3-15 ; ovules 4. l^ipe cai-pels often globose. 



O. zeylanica, H.f. & T. Fl. Ind. Ill ; Fl. I.Bv. 1. 90 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 

 11. " A shrub or very small tree found on the North Kanara ghats." 

 Bedd. 



BOCAGEA, St. Hikire. 



Trees. Flowers small, terminal, axillary or fascicled on woody 

 tubercles, 1-2-sexual. Sepals ovate, imbricate. Petals 6 in 2 

 series, nearly equal, usually concave. Stamens 6-21, imbricate in 

 2 or more series, thick, fleshy, connective produced. Ovaries 3-6 ; 

 ovules 1 or 2-8 on the ventral suture. Eipe carpels globose stalked. 



B. Dalzellii, H, f. & T. Fl. Br. I. 1. 02 ; Sagercea laurina, Dalz. & 

 Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 2 ; Sagercea Dalzellii, Bedd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t. 42. 

 Sagerl. hnr-l-hijal, undie, M. Konkan ; North Kanai'a, in evergreen 

 forests. FL Oct. N^ov. 



Order 5. MENISPERMACE^. 



Climbing shrubs. Leaves alternate. Flowers very small, dioe- 

 cious. Stamens definite, of ten monadelphous. Ovaries 3 or 1, ovules 

 solitary, usually amphitropous. Albumen even, ruminate or 0. 



Ovaries 3. Seed oblong or subglobose. Cotyledous 



foliaceous. 



Filaments free Tixospora. 



Filaments connate ... ... Anamirta. 



Seed borse-slioe-shaped ; cotyledons linear ; albumen 



copious. 



Petals 6, minute. Ovaries 3-12 TiliacorA. 



Petals 6. Ovaries 3-6 Cocculds. 



Ovary 1. Albumen scanty. Endocarp muricate. 



Sepals 6-10, free. Petals of ^ 3-5, free Stephania. 



Sepals 4, free. Petals of ^ 1 Cissampelos. 



Sepals 4-8, connate. Petals of 9 1 Cyclea. 



TINOSPORA, Miers. 

 Climbing shrubs. Flowers in racemes or panicles. Sepals 6 in 2 

 series, inner larger membranous. Petals 6 smaller. Male fl. Sta- 

 mens 6 ; filaments thickened at top. Female fl. Staminodes 6, cla- 

 vate. Ovaries 3. Drupes 1-3, dorsally convex, ventrally concave. 

 Putamen tubercled, dorsally keeled, intruding. Albumen ruminate. 



Leaves woolly bencatb. Flowers green T. maluharica. 



Leaves glabrous. Flowers yellow T. cordi/olia. 



T. malabarica, Miers Contrib. III. 32 ; FL Br. I. 1. 97; Dalz. & 

 Gibs, Bomb. FL 5. Moist forests of the Konkan and North Kanara. 



T. cordifolia, Miers Contrib. III. 31 ; Fl. Br. I. 1. 97 ; Brandis For. 

 FL 8 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. FL 5. G'nlaveli, gulbel, gnhvaU, giroU, 

 M. ; gido, Vern. Dalz. Konkan and North Kduara forests, common. 

 FL H.S. Fr. R.S. 



