ee we 
parts g < . 
_ Young agrecaad shoots nike or tomentose ; drapes the size eS 
of a cherry Pear 
Tinospora. } MENISPERMACER. 51 
MENISPERMACEA. 
Flowers dioecious. Sepals usually 6, rarely 1-4 or 9-12, usu- 
free, in 2 to 4 series. Petals 6, rarely 1-5 or none, free or 
connate. Males: stamens hypogyn ous; filaments and anthers free 
or connate, the ea 2-celled ; ovaries rudimentary or none, 
Females: staminodes 6 or none. Ovaries 8, rarely 1 or 6-12, 
with a soot! or rivals 2 ovules in each; style terminal or lateral. 
Ripe carpe paceous, with an almost basal or excentrical style- 
scar. Seeds usually curved or reniform, the endocarp often intrud- 
ing. Albumen even or ruminate, or none. Cotyledons fleshy or 
leafy.— Herbs or shrubs, twining or scandent, with usually palmately 
nerved alternate leaves. Stipules none. Flowers minute, variously 
arranged, 
Active narcotic and bitter principles prevail in this order, and 
the juice of Tinospora is, therefore, often used as a febrifuge. 
About 21 species are found in Burma, but only few of these are 
really woody and of any concern to the forester. The structure of 
the wood of these is peculiar and interesting. 
x. Ovaries ery 3. oa Seeds acne Seah or alnost ai emails 
sear oocesrae ied early so; pe - Tinospora. 
As reared peta ne ‘. = x . Fibraurea. 
Style-soar — face 1 = Nicauke ‘a connate ‘< - < . Anamirta. 
* x 8 ee ene sacs sce d.. 
O. sda apes ce 
Petals 6, minute ; ovaries 3-12; style subolate : - «+ + Tiliacora, 
Petals 8-8; ovaries 3; style com : ‘ . . Limacia. 
Petals 6; ovaries 3-6; style subulate eae - « Cocculus, 
oO bumen none. 
re gers petals, and stamens, 6 pe 3 flowers racemose or — - Pachygone. 
preceding, but 9 stamens; flowers clustered ‘ - Pycnarrhena. 
Peas 2; sepals 8; stamens 4; Towers clustered . . <i 2 5 aMiitares. 
See Noe pices. 
* Dru, ike ee a y he pelo ee tubercled. 
pe. of a pea 
toiar parts and the blunt leaves beneath . . 
Young parts an pubescent =. : 
All parts glabrous : * “e = ; od» CFispa. 
~~ Fula smooth, while. 
All labrous ; he og the size of a pea 
