Cocculus.'] MENISPERMACE^. 13 



2. C. ovalifolius, DO. Sysi. Veg. i. 42fi. A climber, usually pubescent, 

 especially the upper branches and inflorescence. Leaves shortly stalked, ovate 

 or oblong, entire or obtusely 3-lobed, 2 to 3 in. long, glabrous or hairy, 

 especially the under side. Male panicles or racemes axillary and very short, 

 the upper ones forming an elongated leafy terminal panicle. Flowers glabrous. 

 — Nepliroica pubinems, N. ovaUfoUus, and N. cynmcTuddes, Miers in Kew 

 Journ. Bot. iii. 259. 



In ravines of Mount Victoria, Champion, also Wright; appears common in S. China and 

 northwards to Amoy, but not known from elsewhere. It sometimes much resembles the 

 common Indian C. villosus, DC, but is readily distinguished by the glabrous flowers. 



3. PEE.ICAMPYLTJS, Miers. 



Flowers of Cocculus, except that the anthers are longer and not 4-lobed, 

 and the styles divided to the base into 2 subulate recurved branches. Frait 

 less compressed, and the putamen not perforated. Drupes nearly globular. 



The genus consists but of a single species. 



1. P. incaniis, Miers ; Rook, and Thorns. Fl. Ind. i. 194. A climber, with 

 the younger branches shortly tomentose, or at length glabrous. Leaves nearly 

 orbicular, sometimes slightly peltate, 2 to 4 in. diameter, glabrous above, 

 usually ho£iry underneath, on stalks of 1 to 2 in. Flowers very small, iu axil- 

 lary dichotomous cymes, shorter than the leaves. Sepals hairy on the back. 

 Drupes red. 



Hongkong, Wright. Common in eastern India, from Sikkim and Chittagong to Java. 



4. STEPHANIA, Lour. 



Male flowers : Sepals 6, 8, or 10, in 2 series. Petals 3, 4, or 5, shorter than 

 the sepals. Stamens united in a central column, bearing a flat disk with the 

 anthers on the margin. Female flowers : Sepals 3, 4, or 5. Petals as many. 

 Carpel solitary. Drupe flattened, the scar of the style near the base. Putamen 

 horseshoe-shaped. Albumen thin. Embryo curved, linear, with closed coty- 

 ledons. — Leaves mostly peltate. Flowers in axillary umbels. 



A small genus, dispersed over tropical and subtropical Africa, Asia, and Australia. 



1. S. hemandifolia, Walp. ; HooJc.andThoms.JE'l. Ind.i. 196. A gla- 

 brous or slightly pubescent climber. Leaves broadly ovate, orbicular, or nearly 

 triangular, usually more or less peltate, 3 or 4 in. long, on a petiole of 2 

 or 3 inches. Peduncles axOlary, shorter or rather longer than the petioles, 

 becoming an umbel of 5 or 6 rays, each ray terminated by a head, or partial 

 umbel, of 8 to 12 small sessile or shortly pedicellate flowers. 



Hongkong, Wright. Common in moist hilly parts of India, extending westward to Abys, 

 sinia, eastward over the Archipelago to North Australia, and northward to Nipal, Assam, 

 S, China, Amoy, and the Philippines. 



5. CYCLE A, Arn. 



Male flowers : Sepals 4 to 8, united into a campanulate or inflated and glo- 

 bose calyx. Petals as many, more or less united. Stamens united in a cen-- 

 tral column, bearing a flat disk with horizontal anthers, opening transversely. 



