Stephania.] MJENISJPERMACE^. 2^ 



also in Trop. Africa. PI. in Feb. and March. The juice of the ripe 

 fruit makes a durable bluish-purple ink. The roots and leaves are used 

 in native medicine. 



3. C. Leaeba, DC. Syst. i. 529; HTc. f. ^ T. Fl. Ind. 192; F. B. L i. 102; 

 Brand. For. Fl. 13 ; Watt E. D. ; C. glaber, W. ^ A. Prod. 13, Vern. 

 Talhir. 



A climbing shrub with long slender puberulous branchlets. Leaves 

 ■j-li in. long, petioled, linear-oblong or trapezoid, entire or lobed, 

 obtuse or mucronate, cuneate or rounded at the base, glabrous, 

 becoming glaucous on both surfaces when old. Male fl. many, 

 minute, shortly pedicelled and arranged in axillary panicles. Fem. 

 fl. solitary, on slender axillary peduncles. Drupe renif orm, compressed, 

 ^ in. in diam. 



Eohilkhand and Merwara, in arid places. 1 Distkib. : Punjab 

 Plain, Sindh and Karnatiej also in Afghanistan, Arabia, Trop. and 

 subtrop. Africa. Fl. throughout the year. 



5. PERICAMPYLUS, Miers ; Fl. Br. Ind. i. 102. 



Leaves snbpeltate ; petioles slender, articulate. Flotvers in 

 axillary cymes. Sepals 6, with 3 bracts ; outer smaller ; inner spa- 

 tbulate. Petals 6, cuneate. Male fl. : Stamens 6 ; filaments cylindric ; 

 anthers adnate, bursting transversely, Fem. fl. : Staminodes 6, 

 clavate. Ovaries 3 ; styles 2-partite, segments subulate. Drupes 

 subglobose ; endocarp horseshoe -shaped, dorsally crested or echinate ; 

 sides excavated. Seed curved. 



P. incanus, Miers. in Ann. Sf Mag. Nat Hist. Ser. 11. mi. (1851)40; 

 Elc.f. Sc T. Fl. Ind. 194: F.B. I. i. 102; Watt E. D. Menispermum 

 villosum, Roxh. Fl. Ind. Hi. 812 (not of Lamh ) 



A climbing shrub with tomentose branchlets, afterwards glabrate 

 Leaves petioled, 2-4 in. in diam., suborbicular, obtuse, acute or retuse 

 base truncate or subcordate. Cymes di- or trichotomous, often many 

 and superposed ; bracts subulate. Sepals villous. Petals acute or ob- 

 tuse, margins incurved. Drupes red. 



Eohilkhand and Oudh. Disteib. : Sikkim, Assam, Khasia Hills 

 Chittagong, Malay Penins. and Malay Islands. 



6. STEPHANIA, Lour. : Fl. Br. Ind. i. 102. 



Climbing shrubs. Leaves usually peltate. Flowers in axil- 

 lary cymose umbels. Male fl. : Sepals fi-10, free, ovate or 

 obovate. Petals 3-5, obovate, fleshy. Anthers 6, connate, 

 encircling the top of the staminal column, bursting transversely. 

 Fem. fl. : Sevals 3-5. Petals as in male. Staminodes 0, 



