302 
Mave. Filaments‘incurved at the apex: anthers subglobose, didy- 
“mous, 2-celled ; rudimentary ovaries 3, very small. Frm. Stamens 
‘6, without anthers, shortly clavate: ovaries 3: styles thick, hori- 
‘zontal: drupes reniform, slightly excavated at the sides: seed horse- 
‘shoe-shaped. 
(1) P. ovata. (Miers. ) 
Ident, Wook. & Thoms. Flor. Ind. I. p. 203. 
Syn. Cissampelos ovata, Poir. Dec. prod. 1. p, 162.—Cocculus 
leptostachyus, Dec. ‘prod, I. p. 99.—C. Plukenetii, Dec. prod, I. 
‘p. 97.—W. & A. prod. 1. p. 14. 
Engrav. Wight’s Icon. t. 824 and 825. 
Spec. Cuar. Climbing. shrub, much branched: branchlets 
-covered with yellowish tomentum : leaves ovate-oblong, cuneate or 
rounded at the base, obtuse at the apex or retuse with a mucro, 3~ 
-5-nerved, glabrous on both sides, thickly coriaceous: petiole white- 
pubescent, thickened at the apex and somewhat jointed: petioles 
and racemes surrounded at the base with a bundle of hairs: racemes 
‘slender, pubescent or tomentose, the males longer than the leaves, 
‘the females scarcely equalling them or. shorter: flowers minute, 
‘the males fascicled in the axils of bracts, females solitary: inner 
sepals oval or obovate : petals acutely or obtusely 2-toothed : drupes 
somewhat compressed, the size ef a pea, smoothish: putamen. 
wrinkled. 
In sandy parts of the Carnatic near the sea. 
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‘ORDER VI. BERBERIDACEZ. 
‘Shrubs or herbaceous plants, often spiny: leaves alternate, 
‘without stipules : flowers racemose or panicled: sepals 3-6, in‘ a 
double row, surrounded by scales: petals hypogynous, either 
‘equal in number to the sepals and opposite them, or double the 
mumber, sometimes furnished with an appendage in the inside 
at the base: stamens hypogynous, equal in number to the petals 
-and opposite them: anthers 2-celled: carpel solitary, 1-celled: 
‘style somewhat lateral: stigma orbicular : fruit baccate or cap- 
sular, indehiscent: albumen fleshy or horny. 
