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at the base, usually infracted at the apex; anthers linear, erect. 
Ovary-rudiment none or present. Female flowers sup 
2 similar cup-like connate or free bractlets and usually accompanied 
= an asexual flower, sessile or pedicelled. Sterile stamens united 
cup. Ovary incompletely 3-celled ; stigmas 8, subulate, free 
or fe united at the base. Drupe covered with retrorsely imbricate 
scales, 1-seeded. Seed arillate. Albumen homogeneous, porous 
or otherwise sculptured outside, or ruminate, Embryo almost 
oblique and basal.—Large scandent, rarely erect shrubs or soboli- 
ferous trees, more or less arme , with pinnate leaves often terminat- 
ing in a retrorsely thorny tendril. Inflorescences elongate or short, 
erect or drooping, either spuriously axillary (arising from near the 
base of the sheath of the suce ceeding leaf) or leaf-opposite arising 
from near the apex of the sheath in front of the leaf itself. Arillus 
watery, white or pale rose-coloured, often edible. 
* Flowers wane’ sessile ; spathes persistent, all tubular or 
Jlattened out from a tubular base; albumen usually 
ous, 
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t Drupes sessile, 7. e., the perianth more or less spreading 
a adhering to the base of the fruit. Spathules of 
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3 pinne white beneath; no tendrils w . C. arborescens. 
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and spadices with) tendrils . C. erectus. 
A Pinn we fascicled = interruptly approxi imate. 
os. as &e., tish powdery; leaves without or 
nterrapely fasilea ; tana globular, straw-c loured . C. fasciculatus. 
Glabrous; loaves endril-bea ing; pinnee = et alte ar approx- ee 
ima; Pager oblong, ed . CO. latifolius, 
Scales of iaiie-oe produced in a fringed ‘appendage 
- bed or longer than the crustaceous scale 
Leaves tenidefl-bearing 5” inflorescence without tendrils; drupes 4 
Se in. long, straw-coloured . C. Andamanicus. 
ee “one tendrils ; inflorescence with tendrils ; drupes an 
b long or somewhat longer, dark and pale brown varie- 
. C, tigrinus. 
tt Drupes seated on the erect, indurated, thick, pedicel like 
perianth ; spathules usually long-exserted a’ age’ 
lar, rar rarely ¢ ymbiform and imbricate, soca 
och ae e. 
Un \@) es ~ppinan broader than long, trun: 
acai uidistant ; dru bua i 
in, thick, saa olou prin = . C. tenuis. 
O Spathules exserted and rather elimgate:” 
nee X Spathes with a short acute limb only. 
es Set ence bearing ; pinne mia ts Se drupes 
aah Leaner, coloured, n early an . 0. gracilis. 
-bearing litent narrow ; spathes 
green, = thin, wo Scag pdstubetias, almost unarmed .  . C. Helferianus, 
