mia.] V. M'ENISPEEMACE*. (Hook. f. & Thoms.) 103 



IS. herna^difolla, TFaZ^. Hep. i. 96; branchlets glabrous, leaves 

 oyate or subdeltoid acute obtuse or acuminate^ umbels capitate. H. f. & T. 

 El. Ind.\m; Mters Gontrih. iii. 222. S. intertexta, latifolia, andhYoo- 

 glauoa, Jiliers I.e. 224, 226, 227. Cissampelos hemandifolia, Willd. : DO 

 ^rodr.i. 100; RoAM. Ind. iii. 842; Wall. Cat. 4977 D,E,F,G,H, K. 

 C. disco or, gC.l.c i 101. C. hexandra, Eoxh. I.e. iii. 842. Clypea-W-, 

 nandifoka, W. iSs A. Prodr. i. 14 ; Wight Ic. t. 939. 



From NipAL to Chittaooitg, Sincapoee, and Ceylon.— Distkib. Malay Islands, 

 trop. Australia, Africa. 



BrmcUets striate. Leaves. 3-6 in. diam., base truncate or" subcordate, glabrous or 

 thinly pubescent below only or on both surfaces, pale or glaucous beneath; petiole li- 

 4 in. Peduncles axillary, short or long; rays 8-12, with subulate bracts. SepaU 

 oborate, obtuse. PetaU 3-4. Drupes red.— There are two marked varieties, the 

 IJorthern and Eastern, with peduncles and leaves beneath more or less pubescent, and 

 the Western one with these parts nearly glabrous. 



2. S. elegans, E.f. & T. Fl. Ind. 195; brancUets glabrous, leaves, 

 elongate-deltoid acuminate base truncate or cordate, umbels lax long- 

 peduncled. Miers Gontrih. iii. 227. 



"Subtropical Himalaya from Kumaon to Sikkim, alt. 6-7000 ft. : Khasia hills, 

 E.f.&T. ' ' ^ ' 



Branches slender, angled. Leaves 2\-i by 1-2-4 i^-, sometimes obtuse, thin, coria- 

 ceous, pale beneath; petiole' 1-2 in., slender. Umbels with many rays, sometimea 

 branched ; flowers purple or greenish, odour heavy. Sepals acuminate. Petals obovate. 

 Drupe small, red. 



3. S. rotunda, Zowr. ^. CocA. 747 ; branchlets glabrous, leaves broad- 

 ovate or suborbicular often repand or sinuate-lobedglabrous, umbels inlax 

 cymes. H./. & T .Fl. Ind. 197 ; Miers Gontrih. iii. 215.! C. longa {Khasia 

 specimeBs), japonica, Koxburghiana, glabra, and glandulifera, Miers I.e. 213- 

 220, 1. 119. Cocculus Koxburghianus, Wall. Gat. 4972 (not of DC.) ; W. & A. 

 Prodr. i. 450 in note. C. Finlaysonianus, Wall. Gat. 4974. Cissampelos 

 glabra, Roacb. Fl. Ind. iii. 840. Clypea Wightii, Am. in Wight III. i. 22. 



Tropical and Temperate Himasaya, ascending to 7000 ft., from Sindh eastward 

 to the Khasia hills and Peod. Southern hills of the Western Peninsula. — Distrie. 

 Siam,' Cochin-China. 



, Eoots subglobose. Leaves 3-7 in. diam., obtuse acute or acuminate, pale beneath, 

 petiole 3-9 in. Peduncles YSLriMe, usually slender, of the females stout; rays of umbels-, 

 long or short ; bracts subulate ; flowers J- j in. diam., yellow. Sepals narrow cuneate, 

 puberulous. Petals shorter. Drupe pisiform, 



13. CXSSa.nXFSX.OS, Linn. 



Suberect or climbing strubs. Leaves often peltate. Male fl. : cymose. 

 Sepals 4, (5-6) arose. Fetals 4, connate, forming in 4rlobed cup. Anthers- 

 4, connate, encircling the top of the staminal column, bursting transversely^ 

 Fem. fl. : racemed, crowded in the axils of leafy bracts, Sepals 2 (or 

 Sepal and petal 1 each), 2-nerved, adnate to the bracts. Staminodes 0, 

 Ovarp 1 ; style short, 3-fid or 3-toothed. Drupe ovoid, style-scar sub- 

 feasal; endocarp horseshoe-ahapedi compressed, dorsaUy tubercled, sides- 

 excavated. Seed curved ; embryo slender ; cotyledons narrow, J-terete, ap-' 

 pressed. — Disteib. All hot climates. 



1. C. Paveira, Linn. ; climbing, leaves orbioular-reniform or cord'ate, 

 male cymeg lojjg-peduncJed many flxiweied. hairy, female, racemes TvitJi 



