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1. STEPHANIA, L 



Fl. Brit. Ind. i. 102, 



Slender but widely spreading perennial glabrous climbers, hardly wood}'. 

 Leaves peltate, membranous, basal nerves numerous. Fl. umbellate, in com- 

 pound pedunculate umbels. £ : Sepals 6-10, ovate or obovate, petals 3-5, 

 obovate, fleshy, anthers 6, connate round the top of the staminal column. 

 ? : Sepals 1-5, petals of male, no staminodes. Ovary 1, style 3-6 partite. 

 Eudocarp horseshoe shaped, tubercled. Seed almost annular. About 8 species, 

 from tropical Africa to Polynesia and Australia. 



1. S. hernandifolia, Walp. — Syn. Clypea hernandifolia, W. & A. : Wight 

 Ic. t. 939. 



Leaves ovate, pale beneath, blade 2-4, petiole 1-2 in. Umbels capitate, 

 ripe carpels J in. diani., fasciculate (one only in each flower). 



Subhimalayan tract, from Nepal eastwards, Assam, Khasi hills, Bengal, Burma, 

 Western Ghats and coast, Ceylon. Fl. March-August. Malay Peninsula and Archi- 

 pelago, Cochinchina, Southern China, Polynesia and Australia. 2. S. rotunda, Lour.; 

 Vern, Pafha, Dun. Subh Lmalayan tract from the Jumna eastwards, ascending to 6,000 ft. 

 Assam to Burma, Western Ghats and coast. A large bulbous-rooted climber ; leaves* 

 round, often sinuate-lobed, 3-7 in. diam. ; fl. yellow, on slender pedicels. 3. S. elegans, 

 Hook. fil. <& Thorns. Subhimalayan tract from Garhwal eastwards, ascending to 6,000 

 ft. Khasi hills. A wiry climber; leaves elongate-deltoid, acuminate, 2— i in.; metallic 

 lustre underneath. Peduncles filiform, longer than petioles. Berries small, red, 

 transparent. 



Cissampelos Pareira, Linn.: Brandis, F. Fl. 10; Collett Simla Fl. fig. 7. — Vern. 

 Kntori, pataki, tilcri, Pb. : Parhe, Dun, is a climber with herbaceous or slender 

 woody branches, on a short Stout stem: branches more or less grey tomentose: 



leaves generally peltate; male fl. tetramerous, in small lax cymose clusters, at the 

 end of short slender axillary peduncles: female fl. in elongate simple or compound 

 racemes, with numerous broad alternate foliaceous bracts, ovary 1. Pipe carpels 



j\ in. diam.. style scar basal, eudocarp transversely ridged and tuberculate. s 1 



liorsi-sl - L; 1 1 .■•! I. Subliiiiialayan tract, from the Indus eastwards, ascending to 



4,000 ft. Chota Nagpore. Common in both peninsulas, not in the arid region. Fl. 

 March-October. Cosmopolitan in tropical ami subtropical countries. 



2. CYCLEA, Arnott : Fl. Brit. Ind. i. 10-4. 



Climbing shrubs, branchlets longitudinally ribbed, leaves peltate, fl. in 

 axillary panicles. Male : Calyx 4-8 lobed, petals 4-8, more or less connate. 

 Anthers 4-6, on the top of the staminal column, connate, bursting transversely. 

 Female: Sepal 1 nbloug, petal 1 orbicular. Ovary 1, style short, 3-5 lobed. 

 1 irupe pisiform, style scar near base, endocarp tubercled, seed horseshoe 

 shaped. Species <>. Madagascar, India. China. 





Pio. 8.— Cycleo peltatn, Hook Bl. -v Thorns. '. 



