.] V. MENisPEHMACEiE. (Hook. f. &, Thoms.) 106 



From Assam and the "Khasia. hills eastwards ; and throughout the Western and 

 Basteeit Peninsula and Ceylon. — Disthib. Java, &c. 



Brainchea grooved, sparsely clothed with reflexed hairs or glabrate. Leaves 3-6 by 

 2-i in., thin, coriaceous, acute or obtuse, subrepand, ciliate, above glabrous or sparsely 

 pilose, usually pubescent beneath ; petiole 1-2^ in. Fanicles equalling or exceeding 

 the leaves ; males sometimes 1 ft. ; fem. much shorter ; bracts 'oblong or subulate ; 

 male flowers hispid or glabrous. Oalycc much exceeding the corolla. Drwpe pilose.— 

 The synonymy of this species is much confused with that of 0. Burmanni, and owing 

 to some of the authentic specimens being flowerless these may require revision. 



15. I.OPHOPKVI.X.Tria, Griffith. 



Characters of Cyclea, but male flowers apetalous and female with 2 

 opposite fleshy saccate sepals. 



1. Ii. bicristatum, Griff. Not. PI. Asiat. part iv. 313, t. 491 ; It. Notes. 

 114 No. 190, and 165 No. 854; leaves broadly cordate acuminate 7-9- 

 nerved. Peraphora robusta, Miers Gontrib. iii. 245, t. 122. Cyclea popuLi- 

 folia, E.f. & T. Fl. Ind. 202. 



Eastern Himalaya, in Sikkim and Bhotan, Griffith, &c. ; Khasia hills, H.f. & T. 



A tall climber ; bark white ; branchlets pubescent. Leaves 4-6 by 3-6 in., firm, 

 coriaceous, glabrous above, pilose with rigid hairs and reticulate beneath ; petiole 2-4 

 in., cylindric, pubescent, base and tip thickened. Panicles slender, decompound, fas- 

 cicled, tomentose. Calyx globose, 4-lobed. Anthers 4-5, connate into a peltate disk. 

 Drupe 4 in. diam., subglohose ; endocarp with 3 series of hooked spines on each edge. 



16. FACSYGONE, Miers. 



A climbing shrub. Flawers axillary, racemed, dioecious. Sepals 6, 2-seriate, 

 outer smaller. Petals 6, much smaller, base auricled embracing the fila- 

 ment. Male fl. : Stamens 6, filament incurved ; anthers siibglobose, 

 didymous, bursting transversely. Rudimentary carpels 3, minute. Fbm. 

 fl. : Staminodes 6. Ovaries 3 ; styles stout, horizontal. Brupes reniform, 

 style-scar subbasal; endocarp reniform,^ rugulose. Seed horseshoe-shaped, 

 albumen ; cotyledons J-cylindric, very thick, hard ; radicle very short. 



1. P. ovata, Miers Gontrib. iii. 331, t. 135 ; leaves ovate-oblong or sub- 

 trapezoid, male racemes exceeding the leaves. H. f. do T. Fl. Ind. 203. 

 JP. Plukenetii, coucinna, adversa, a?id odorif era, Miers I.e. 330-334. Cissam- 

 peios ovata, Poi/r. ; BG. Prodr. i. 102. C. Plukenetii, BG. I.e. i. 97 ; 

 W.&A. Prodr. i. 14; Wight Ic. t. 824, 825. C. Wightianus, Wall. Gat. 

 4959 A. C. officinarum, Pluk. Koon zeylanicus, Goertn. Fruct. ii. 486, 1. 180. 



Dry maritime places in the Caenatic and Ceylon. — Distbib. Java and Timor. 



A lofty climber ; branches tomentose. Leaves 1^-2 by f-lj in., thick, coriaceous, 

 obtuse, retuse or mucronate, base cuneate or rounded, 3-5-nerved, glabrous ; petiole 

 4-| in., with a basal ring of hairs; tip thickened. Bacemes slender, pubescent, 

 females shortest ; pedancles very short. Flowers minute, male in the axils of subu- 

 late bracts, female solitary. Petals 2-toothed. Drwpes pisiform. 



17. PYCNABXtHEMA, Miers. 



Suberect or climbing shrubs. Flowers axillary, fascicled or shortly 

 panicled, dioecious. Mao; fl. : Sepals 6, with 3 bracts, inner larger orbicular. 

 Petals 6, small, lobed. Stamens 9, filaments very short ; anthers subdidymous, 

 bursting transversely. Fem. fl.; unknown. Drupe broadly oblong, sub- 



