Coceulus.) MENISPERMACEZ. 209 
26. Pycnarrhena Miers. 
Shrubs, suberect or climbing. Flowers axillary, fascicled or 
panicled. ¢ Sepals 6 with 8 bracts, inner larger orbicular. 
Petals 6, small, lobed. Stamens 9, filaments very short; anthers 
subdidymous; dehiscence transverse. ¢ Flower unknown. Fruit 
drupe-like, broadly oblong, slightly gibbous; style-scar lateral ; 
endocarp subreniform. Seed — concave ventrally; albu- 
men 0; cotyledons oblong, very thi 
46. PYCNARRHENA PLENIFLORA Miers: FB, B, I. i. 106. 
Chittagong. 
A climbing shrub. Vernac. Langadu (Chittagong). 
27. Tinospora Miers. 
Climbing shrubs. Flowers in axillary or terminal racemes or 
panicles, Sepals 6, 2-seriate, inner membranous larger. Petals 6, 
smaller. g Stamens 6, filaments free, tips thickened; anther 
cells adnate; dehiscence oblique. ¢ Staminodes 6, aad: 
Carpels 3, stigmas forked. rier of 1-3 Grapes Cony a x ehovny flat 
below ; style-scar pe ag k, 
concave below. Seed grooved ventrally or curved pe the 
intruded endocarp ; albumen ruminate below; cotyledons leafy. 
Leaves orbicular- cordate somewhat 3-lobed, pubescent above, — 
beneath ; drupes mentosa 
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Leaves tondais, eilaota not lobed ; drupes red cordifolia 
47. Trnospora TOMENTOSA Miers; F. B. I. i. 96. Menispermum 
tomentosum F. I. iii. 813. 
In hedges and thickets, rare 
A climbing shrub. Vernac. ‘Padmo-gulanché. 
48. Tinospora corprrouiA Miers; F. B. I. i. 97; E. D. T. 470. 
Menispermum cordifolium F. I. iii. 811. 
In hedges and thickets everywhere, very common. 
An extensive climber. Vernac. Gulancha. 
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