309 a 
simple, 1-S-flowered : petals cuneate-oblong, emarginate: nite o8 
the drupes reniform, compressed: drupes dark-purple when ripe: 
fowera small, greenish<yellow. ; 
Peninsula. Hurdwar. Behar. Malabar. Flowering in the rainy 
neason.. 
(8) C. Leaba. (Deec.) 
Ident. Dec. prod. 1; p. 99.—-Hook. & Thoms. Flor: Ind. I. 
p- 192. . 
Syz, C. Sebatha; Dee.--C. ellipticus, do.—C. epibaterium,. do. 
—C. levis, Wall.—C. glaber, W. & A. prod. I. p. 13,—Menisper- ‘ 
mum Leaba, Del. p. g.—M. edule; Vakl.—M. elliptiewm, Poir. 
Src. Cuan. Twining, glabrous: branches twiggy, pendulous : 
leaves ovate, mucronate: male flowers numerous, axillary, sessile, 
shorter than the petiole, fonming a spike by the fuliing of the 
leaves: female pedicels usually solitary, 1-flowered, as long ae the 
petiole: petals rowndish-ovate, concave : nuts kidney-shaped, com- 
pressed. 
Alpine valleys in the Madura district. Coimbatore. Flowering 
all the year. 
(4) C. moxtis. (Wall.) 
ident. Hook. & Thoms. Flor. Ind. I. p. 193. 
Spec. Cuan. Climbing shrub: leaves ovate, acute or acuminat- 
ed, cordate or truncate at the base, pubescent with scattered haira 
above, softly tothentose below: peduncles axillary, the males irre- 
‘gularly cymose, 4~7-flowered, with a few filiform bracts, the fem#les 
1~3-flowered: calyeine bracts 2: sepals oval: petals emargiriate: 
drupes compressed, pea-shaped: putamen keeled at the back. 
Khasia mountains. _ 
GENUS Ill. CISSAMPELOS. 
Dicela Monadelphia. See: Syst: 
Deriv.. From Kissos, ivy, and Ampelos, the vine. The speeies 
climbing like ivy, with clusters of grape-like fruit. 
Grn. Cuar. Twining shrubs with peltate or cordate leaves : 
Tacemes axillary, of the males trichotomously branched, of the 
females simple, bearing broad leafy bracts with 1-flowered pedicels 
in their axil. Mazz. Sepals 4, ina double series; eorolla cup= 
shaped: petals 4: stamens united into a column, dilated st the 
apex: cells forming a 4-lobed ring round the top. Femare. 
Calyx of one lateral sepal: corolla of one petal in’ front of the 
sepal: stigmas 3: drupe obliquely kidney-shaped: nut compress- 
ad: seed solitary. 
