C^clea.] FLORA INDICA. 201 



This genus, which was originally proposed and characterized by Arnott, in Wight's 

 ' Illustrations,' has been adopted by Mr. Miers, and appears very natural. It is at 

 once distinguished from Stephania by the paniculate inflorescence. The characters 

 of the female flowers are not yet perfectly ascertained, as we have only been able to 

 examine those of C. Burmanni and C. populifolia in a very advanced state, in which 

 they appear to us to present the characters given above. The putamen differs from 

 that of Cissampelos and Stephania precisely as do those of Limacia and Cocculus 

 from one another. Maptomeris appears to difier chiefly in the number of parts, and 

 is therefore not tenable as a genus. The degree of combination of the petals varies 

 so much even in the same species, that we cannot venture to employ it as a generic 

 character. 



In Cyclea populifolia a portion of stem, of five or six years' growth, and half an 

 inch in diameter, is soft, with a spongy bark, rather small pith, and sixteen ratber 

 narrow wood-wedges. Fith of elongated delicate cells, superimposed by their square' 

 apices, and full of starch. Medullary rays of mural cells. Wood-wedges (on a 

 transverse section) lineai--clavate, of much dotted pleurenchyma, and large vessels 

 with transverse bars and gashes. Liber-bundles free from the wood, rather small, 

 and apparently not increasing after the first year. Bark of soft hexagonal cellular 

 tissue, sm-rounded by several dense layers of radially compressed cells. The wood of 

 the other species is very similar. 



1. C. Burmanni (Miers, in Taylor's Annals, I.e., non Arnott); 

 foliis peltatia elongato-deltoideis acuminatis basi cordatis sagittato- 

 lobntis, lobis rotundatis, margiue subrepandis, calyce inflate subglo- 

 boso 6-8-lobo, corolla dimidio minore urceolata vix lobata. — Cocculus 

 Burmanni, DC. Syat. i. 517, Prod. i. 96. Clypea Burmanni, TF. et A. 

 Prod, ex parte. — Burm. Zeyl. t. 101. 



Hab. InZeylania, Walker! (prope Peradenia, alt. 2600 ped., Gard- 

 ner!) Concan, Gibson! Stocks! — (». s.) 



Trutex scandens. Caules sulcati, pilosiusculi vel glabrcscentes. Folia tenuiter 

 coriacea, iis C. peltatce longiora et angustiora, supra nitida, subtus dense pubesccntia 

 vel rarius subglabra, 2-4 poU. longa, basi f-2 poll, lata, petiole ^-H-poUicari. 

 Panicula folia aequantes vel longe superantes, laxe ramosse, multiflorse, pubescentes. 

 Flares mascnli iis C. peltatce duplo majores, subglobosi, hispiduli. 



This species is readily distinguished from the next by the shape and size of the 

 male flowers, but much confusion exists in the synonymy of the two. "Wight and 

 Arnott distributed specimens of both, but their description (of the flower at least) 

 seems to have been taken entirely from the next. Burmann's plate, however, corre- 

 sponds in foliage with the present species, and though the flowers are represented 

 much smaller, they are described as 6-fid. We have therefore followed Mr. Miers 

 in referring Burmann's figure to the plant described above. A fragment of C. Bur- 

 manni exists in the WaUichian Herbarium at the Linneau Society, under No. 4982, 

 collected by Heyne, and communicated by Wight, whose own specimens belong to 

 the next species, under which, therefore, we have quoted Wallich's synonym. As 

 the characters derived from the shape of the leaves cannot be considered certain 

 till confirmed by careful study of the living plant, we do not describe in detail the 

 female plant, though we have a specimen before us fi'om Ceylon which agrees in 

 foliage with the male, and is therefore probably referable here. Judging from this 

 specimen, the female inflorescence does not diflier from that of C. jieltata. 



2. C. peltata (H.f. et T.) ; foliis peltatis deltoideis basi subcor- 

 datis, petalis calyce campanulato 4-lobo dimidio brevioribus in cyathum 

 irregulariter 4-lobum coalitis. — Meiiispermum peltatum, Lam. Coc- 

 culus peltatus, DC. Syst. i. 516, Prod. i. 96. Cissampelos discolor, 

 Wall. Cat. 4982 ! {ex parte), non DC. nee Blume. C. barbata, Wall. 



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