104 V. MEijrisPERMACE^. (Hook. f. & Thorns.) [dssampehs.: 



large reniform or orbicular bracts, drupes subglobose hirsute. DC. Prod/r. i. 

 100; H.f. & T. M.Ind. 198 : Miers Contrib. iii. 139. C. caapeba, Linn. ; 

 Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 842. C. convolvulacea, WUld. ; WaU. Cat. 4979 ; W.&A. 

 Prodr. L 14 ; Roxb. I.e. 842. C. orbiculata, discolor, and hirsuta, Bvdi. ; 

 DC. l.c. 101. C. hemandifoha, Wall. Cat. 4979, partly. C. obtecta, WaO,. 

 Cat. 4981. C. diversa, elata, grallatoria, eriantha, and delicatula, Mixrs l.c. 

 187-197. C. subpeltata^ Thwaites Enwm. 13 and 399 ; Miers l.c. 195. Menisp. 

 orbiculatum, Linn, Cocculus orbiculatus, DC. l.c. 98. C. viUosus, WaU. 

 Cat. 4957 in part, and C. membranaceus 4967 {diseased state). 



Tropical and subtropical India, from Sihdh and the Pdnjab to Ceyloh and Snt- 

 CAPOBE. — DisTEiB. Cosmopolitan in warm regions. 



A lofty climber ; branchlets rarely glabrous. Leaves 1-4 in. diam., usually peltate, 

 obtuse and mucronate, rarely acute, base truncate or more or less cordate ; petiole 

 equalling the leaf or longer. Male cymes 4-14 in. (sometimes replaced by a shoot with 

 small leaves and small axillary cymes), axillary or nearly so, usually 2-3 superposed, 

 decompound ; bracts minute, rarely foliaceous ; peduncle slender, pubescent tomentose 

 or hirsute. Fern, racemes 1-2, axillary ; bracts lax or densely imbricate, usually hoary, 

 sometimes petioled ; pedicels very short. Ovaries rarely glabrate. Drupe J in. diam., 

 scarlet. — A careful reconsideration of the materials discussed in " Flora Indica," with 

 many additional specimens, and an eight years' further familiarity in India with both 

 native and cultivated forms, convince us that the view taken in the above work (which 

 is that of Eichler, Bentham, and Thwaites) is not invalidated by the vigorous attacks 

 of our friend Mr. Miers. 



14. CVCIiEA, Amott. 



Climbing shrubs. Leaves usually peltate. Flowers in axillary panicles ; 

 Male fl. : Sepals 4r-9i, connate into an inflated 4-5-lobed calyx Petals 4-8,' 

 more or less connate into a 4-5-lobed corolla. Anthers 4^6, connate, 

 crowning the staminal column, bursting transversely. Fem. fl. : Sqial 1, 

 oblong. Petal 1, orbicular. Ovary 1 ; style short, 3-5-lobed, lobes radiating. 

 Drupe ovoid, style-scar subbasal; endocarp horseshoe-shaped, doreally 

 tubercled, sides convex 2-locellate (as in Limada). Seed curved ; cotyledons 

 slender, ^terete, appressed.— Disteib. Tropical Asia. 



1. C. Burmannl, Miers Contrib. iii. 239, t. 121 ; leaves peltate elon- 

 gate-deltoid acuminate base cordate or subsagittate suprepand, calyx 

 subglobose 6-8-lobed, corolla nrceolate subentire. H.f. & T. Fl. Ind. 201. 

 Cocculus Burmanni, DC. Prodr. i. 96. Clypea Burmanni, W. & A. Prodr. 

 m part; Burm. Fl. Zeyl. t. 101. Bhaptomeris Burmanni, Miers in Tavl. 

 Ann. Ser. 2, vii. 41. ' j 



CoNCAH, Gibson; and Ceyloh, ascending to 2600 ft. 



Branches pilose or glabrate. Leaves 2^ by |-2 in., thin, coriaceous, shining above, 

 usually pubescent beneath ; petiole 4-1^ in. Panicles equalling or exceeding the 

 leaves, many-flowered, pubescent. Male fl. and drupe pilose. Calyx much exceeding, 



2. C. peltata, E.f. f T. Fl. Ind. 201; leaves peltate deltoid acute or 

 subacute, calyx campanulate 4-lobed, coroUa an irregularly 4-lobed cup. 

 Mwrs Contrib. ui. 236. C. barbata, versicolor, Arnottii, laxiflora, and 

 debiliflora,, Mwrs l.c. 237-242. Menisp. peltatum, Lamk. Cocculus peltatus,. 

 u^uf'"''w77-/?^; .Sf^'?.^^^°^ discolor. Wall. Cat. 4892, in part. C 

 barbata, TfaZ?. Cai. 4978. Clypea Burmanni, W. & A. Prodr. i. 74 in vart. 

 Cyclea Burmanm, Amott in Wight III. i. 22. Bhaptomeris BurmMini, 

 Miers m Tayl. Ann. Ser. 2, vu. 41. Sheede Sort. Mai. vii t 49 ^^' 



