102 V. MENiSPERMACia:. (Hook. f. & Thorns.) [Coceulm 



tide J in. Panicles loosely villous ;*bracts minute, linear. Drupes black-purple, endo- 

 carp aculelj keeled, tubetcled. 



4. C. mollis, Wall. Cat. 4973; branchlets pubescent, leaves ovate acute 

 or acuminate white and vUlous beneath, panicles few-flowered. WepJiroica 

 mollis, Miers Gontrib. iii. 265. 



. NiPAL, Wallich, -.KsAsiA HiLLSi alt. 5000 ft., B.f. & T. 



BramchUts striate. Leaves 2-4 by 14-24 in., of shoots often obtuse, base cordate or 

 truncate, bright green above, at length glabrate ; petiole f-1 in. Pamcles axillary or 

 nearly so, on a tomentose tubercle, shorter than the leaves, males iiTegular cymose, 

 cymes 4-7-flowered, bracts filiform ; females 1-3-flowered. Petals notched. X'ntpes 

 pisiform, compressed ; endocarp keeled, with 4 rows of tubercles. 



5. C. Ziewba, DC. Prodr. i. 99; branchlets, puberulous, leaves linear- 

 oblong oblong or trapezoid entire or lobed glabrate, flowers fascicled m the 

 ftxUs, females subsoltary. H.f. <& T. Fl. Ind. 192 ; Mkrs Contrih.m. 256. 

 C. iKvis, WaM. Cat. 4975. C. glabra, W. & A. Prodr. i. 13 ; Mi^rs I.e. 257. 

 C recisus, Miers I.e. 258. 



Drier parts of Western India; the Punjab, Sihdh, and. the Caknatic— Disteie. 

 Affghanistan, Arabia, trop. and subtrop. Africa. > ■ i j j 



Bramhlets long, slender. Leaves 4-14 by J-i in., very variable, angles rounded, 

 sometimes 3-5-lobed, usually obtuse and mucronate, base cuneate or rounded, young 

 hoary, old often glaucous on both surfaces ; pedicels J-J in. _ Flowers fascicled on woody 

 tubercles, pedicels 1-fiowered, males dense. Drupes ^^^ in. 



11. FERXCAiaPVIilTS, Miers. 



A climbing shrub. Leaves subpeltate, petioles slender, articulate. Flowers 

 in axillary cymes. Sepals 6, with 3 bracts, outer smaller, inner spathulate. 

 Petals 6, cuneate. Male fl. : Stamens 6, filaments cylindric ; anthers ad- 

 nate, bursting transversely. FesialE fl. : Staminodes 6, clavate. Ovarii 

 3 ; styles 2-partite, segments subulate. Drupes subglobose ; endocarp 

 horseshoe-shaped, dorsally crested and echinate, sides excavated. SeM 

 curved ; cotyledons elongate flat, scarcely broader than the radicle. 



1. P. incanus, Miers Gontrib. iii! 118, t. 3 ; leaves suborbicular ob- 

 tuse aCute or retuse. P. aduncus, assamicus, and membranaceus, Miers I.e. 

 119-122. Cocculus incanus, Caleb, in Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. 67. Cissam- 

 pelos mauritlana, Wall. Cat. 4980 [not of DC). Menisp, villosum, RoA 

 Fl. Ind. iii. 812 [not of Lamk.). 



SiKKiM, Assam, the Khasia hills, CmTTAQOisra and throughout the Eastebn 

 Penissula. — DiSTBiB. Java. 



BrancMets tomentose, then glabrate. Leaves 2—4 in. diam., base truncate or sub' 

 cordate ; petiole 1-2 in. Cymes 2-3-chotomous, often many and superposed ; pe- 

 duncles 1-2 in., axillary, many-flowered ; bracts subulate. Sepals villous. Petals acute 

 or obtuse, margins incurved. Drupes red. 



12. STEFKANIA, Loureiro. 



Climbing shrubs. Leaves usually peltate. Flowers in axillary, cymose 

 umbels. Male fl. : Sepals 6-10, free^ ovate or obovate. Petals 3-5, obovate, 

 fleshy. Anthers 6, connate, encirclmg the top of the staminal column; 

 bursting transversely. Fem. fl. : Sepcds 3-5. Petals of the male. Stami- 

 nodes 0. Ovary 1 ; style 3-6-partite. Drupe glabrous ; endocarp com- 

 pressed, horseshoe-shaped, dorsally tubercled, sides hollowed and per- 

 forated. Seed almost annular ; cotyledons long, slender, ^-terete, appressed. 

 — DiSTEiB. Tropics of the Old World. 



