194 FLORA INDICA. [Menispermacece . 



Stamina 6 ; filamenla cylindrica ; aiitlmrce adnatas, ovales, biloculares, 

 loculis lateraliter dehisoentibus. PosM. Stamina sterilia 6, eubclavata. 

 Ovaria 3. Stylus ad basin bipartitus, segmentis reflexis subulatis. 

 Brupce subglobosse. Futamen hippocrepiforme, dorso cristatum, late- 

 raliter utrinque exoavatum, imperforatum. Embryo in axi albuminis 

 cylindricus ; cotyledonibus eloiigatis, radicula cylindrica vix latioribus, 

 planis. — -Frutices scandentes, foliis suhpeltatis, petiolis gracilibus bad 

 articulatis, cymis dickotomis axillaribus longe pedunculatia muUifloris, 

 sape in una axilla pi urib us superpositis, interdum secus ramum elongatum 

 aphyllum paniculatis. 



Perieampylus has the fruit of Cissampelos or Stephania, with the flower of the 

 tribe Cocculece. The bipartite style and peculiar inflorescence distinguish the genus. 

 When there are several cymes in one axil, they are superposed, and the higher is then 

 usually supported on a longer peduncle, and bears more numerous flowers. 



The specimen of Loureiro's Pselimn at the British Museum, though very imper- 

 fect, is clearly identical with Pericampylus incanus ; but as Loureiro's character is 

 very confased, the two sexes belonging evidently to different plants, the name must 

 be rejected. 



The stem of Pericani'pylus incanus is cylindrical and grooved ; a portion of perhaps 

 four or five years' growth (or more), is one-third of an inch in diameter, and presents 

 eighteen wood-wedges, separated by very narrow medullary rays ; there are evident 

 traces of periodic deposition of wood in the wedges, marked by the number, size, and 

 disposition of the great vessels. The piih is loosely cellular in the centre, passing 

 into woody tubes near the wedges of wood, and becoming very dense and firm in the 

 medullary rays and bark. Liber-bundles isolated, applied to the cambium layer, but 

 not much increased after the first year. 



1. P. incanus (Miers in Taylor's Annals, ser. 2. vii. 40); foliis 

 fere orbicularibus aoutis vel obtusis. — Cocoulus incanus, Colebt-ooJce in 

 LiuH. Tr. xiii. 57. Clypea corymbosa, Blume, Bijdr. 34. Cissampelos 

 Mauritiana, TFall. Cat. 4980 ! {non DC). Menispermum villosum, 

 Eoxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 812 (non Lam.). 



Hab. In dumetis subtropicis Sikkim ! Assam ! Khasia ! SQhet ! Chit- 

 tagong ! Tenasserim ! Malaya usque ad Malacca ! — (v. u.) 



DisTKiB. Java! 



Frutex scandens, ramulis fulvo-tomentosis demum fere glabris. Folia latissima, 

 basi leviter cordata vel subtruncata, subpeltata, mucrone subdeciduo apiculata, inter- 

 dum retusa, diamotro 2-4-pollicaria, petiolo 1-3-pollicari tomeutoso, supra glabra, 

 subtus aibo- vel cinereo-tomentosa vel incana, rarius glabrescentia, 5-nervia. Cyma 

 bi-trichotom£e, folio breviores, pedunculis 1-2-pollicaribus. Bractecc ad ramificationes 

 subulatfe. Sepala dorso villosa. Petala trapezoidea, acuta vel obtusa, marginibus 

 inflexis. Drupce Isete rubrse. Putamen dorso seriebus 3 tuberculorum obtusorum 

 notatum. 



Tribus IV. ClSSAMPELIDE^. 



Stamina in columnam centralem cylindrioam coalita, apice discum 

 planum peltatum rotundatum margine antheriferum gerentem. Ovaria 

 solitaria, stylo 8-5-partito coronata. Embryo hippocrepiforaiis, cylin- 

 dricus, in axi albuminis parci, cotyledonibus oppositis. 



This tribe is characterized by the solitary ovary, crowned by the style, which is 



