28 V. MENISPERMACE^. 



Tmbe II. Coccules. — Flowers 3-vierous. Ovaries usually 3. Drupes with u subbasal 

 rarely subterminal style-scar. Seed horseshoe-shaped, albumen copious ; embryo slender ; 

 cotyledons linear or slightly dilated. 



Flowers in much-branched cymes. Carpels of the fruit broad, the 



style near the base. Seeds albuminous 3. Pebicampylus. 



Petals 5 to 8. Ovaries 3. Styles compressed. Sepals 8 to 12, inner 



imbricate in subgenus Hypserpa 4. Limacia (Hypseepa). 



Sepals imbricate. Petals 3. Stamens 9 to 12. Carpels 3, 2-ovulate . S. Adeliopsis. 



Sepals 9, 3-seriate. Petals 6. Stamens 6, free. Anthers didymous- 

 globose, almost 4-lobed. Drupe renate-ovate, turgid. Seed reniform 6. Tkisticocalyx. 



Tbibe III. Cissampelidefe. — Flowers 3 — 5-merous. Ovaries usually solitary. Drupes 

 with a subbasal style-scar ; endocarp dorsally muricate or echinate. Seed horseshoe-shaped : 

 albumen scanty ; embryo linear ; cotyledons oppressed. 



Sepals 2 to 5, very small. Petals 3 to 6, thick and fleshy, almost 

 globular. Anthers 2 or 3. Carpels 3 to 6. Flowers racemose . . 7. Saecopetalum. 



Sepals 6, 'membranous. Petals 3, somewhat fleshy. Stamens 3, 

 connate in a very short column. Flowers in racemose-panicles . . 8. Leichhaebtia. 



Sepals 6 to 10, free. 

 Petals free, smaller than the sepals, concave, of both male and 

 female 3 to 5. Anthers 4 or 5. Carpels solitary. Flowers 



umbellate 9. Stephania. 



Sepals 4. free. Petals of male 4-connate, of female 1. Male flowers 

 cymose ; female racemose 10. Cissampelos. 



Teibe IV. Pachygrones. — Flowers usUMlly 3-merous. Ovaries usually 3. Drupes with 

 subbasal or ventral style-scar. Seed curved-lwoked or inflexed; albumen none; cotyledons thick, 



Sepals, petals, and stamens 6 each 11. Pachygone. 



Sepals and petals 6 each. Stamens 9 12. Fycnaebhena. 



Sepals 9. Petals 6. Stamens 3 13. Pleooyne. 



Sepals 9. Petals very minute, bilobed. Stamens 6 14. Husemankia. 



1. TINOSPORA, Miers. 



(Small seeds.) 



Sepals 6, in 2 series, the inner ones large. Petals 6, smaller than the sepals, 

 nearly flat. Male flowers : Stamens 6, free, thickened towards the top, the 

 anther-cells lateral. Female flowers : Staminodia 6. Carpels 8, stigma jagged. 

 Drupes ovoid, the remains of the style nearly terminal. Putamen slightly con- 

 cave on the inner face, the internal projection hemispherical and hollow, forming 

 an empty cell. Seeds disk-shaped, albuminous. Cotyledons ovate, spreading 

 laterally. Leaves cordate or truncate at the base. Flowers usually clustered in 

 long, simple racemes. 



A small genus, chiefly Asiatic, but extending also to tropical Africa. The Australian species 

 endemic. 



1. T. smilacina (Smilax-like), Benth. Fl. Austr. i. 56. A glabrous twiner, 

 the branches somewhat succulent. Leaves ovate, deeply and broadly cordate at 

 the base, or almost hastate with rounded auricles, obtuse or scarcely acuminate, 

 8 to 4in. long, 5-nerved, the smaller pinnate veins scarcely prominent, on petioles 

 of about lin. Flowers green, the male racemes 2 or 8in., the female about lin. 

 long ; pedicels about 1 line. Sepals : 8 outer ones very small and triangular, 8 

 inner ones about 1 line long, ovate, thin, spreading. Petals about half as long as 

 the inner sepals, obovate. Anthers terminal, ovoid, almost globular, the cells 

 almost parallel. Drupe red, oblong, about 3 lines long. Ripe in June. 



Hab. : Cape York and Thursday Island. 



