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4. ANON ACE vT^. 



DahelUi, H. f. & T. Fl. Br. I. 1. 92. Quatteria laitrifoliay Grah. Cat. Bo. 

 PI. 4. Sageri^ har-hinjal, undies M. 



A moderate sized tree with a cylindrical stem and dark coloured scaly 

 bark. Konkan and N. Kanara, in evergreen forests. Fl. Oct. -Nov. 



Order 5. MENISPERMACE^. 



Climbing shrabs. Leaves alternate, entire, usually palmi-nerved ; 

 stipules 0. Flovirers small, usually trimerous, dioecious, sometimes 

 3-bracteolate. Sepals usually 6, free, the outer 3, often minute. 

 Petals 6-0, free or connate. Male fl. : Stamens usually 6, opposite 

 the petals, rarely fewer or more. Female fl. : Staminodes 6-0, carpels 

 free, distinct, usually 3 ; style termioal, simple or divided ; ovules 

 solitary, usually amphitropous. Kipe carpels usually drupaceous ; 

 seed enclosed in the woody or coriaceous endocarp, usually curved or 

 reniform, the radicle pointing towards the scar of the style which is 

 either sub-terminal or sub-basal. Albumen equable, ruminate or 0, 

 cotyledons flat or semiterete, foliaceous or fleshy, adpressed or 

 spreading. 



Flowers trimerous. Oraries 3. Seed oblong or 

 globose. Cotyledons foliaceous. Albumen scanty 

 or copious. (Tinosporeffi.) 

 Filaments free. Drupes red, dorsally convex... 1. Tinospora, 

 Filaments connate. Drupes black, dorsally 



gibbous ... 2. Anamieta. 



Flowers trimerous. Ovaries usually 3. Seed horse- 

 ^ shoe sbaped. Albumen copious. Cotyledons 



linear. (Cocculese.) 



Ovaries 3-12. Dry fruit obovoid-oblong, not 

 tubercledi Antbers 2-lobed, dehiscing longi- 

 tudinally 3. TiLIACORA, 



Ovaries 3 — 6. Dry fruit, circular, compressed, 

 strongly, tubercled. Antbers 4-lobed, debis- 



- ' cing transversely ... 4. Coccdiirs. 



Floveers 3-5-merous. Ovaries usually 1, Seed 

 horse-shoe shaped. Albumen scanty. Cotyledons 

 sbnder, adpressed, (Cissampelideae.) 

 J Sepals 6—10, free, Petals of $ and ^ 3-5, 



free ... ... ... 5. Stephania. 



Sepals 4, free. Petals of $ 4, connate, of ^ 1. 6. Cissampelos. 

 Sepals 4-8, connate. Petals of ^ 4-8, connate, 

 of $ 1 7, Cyclea. 



1. TINOSPORA Miers. 

 Climbing shrubs. Flowers in racemes or panicles. Sepals 6 in 2 

 series, inner larger,, membranous. Petals 6, smaller. Male fl. : 

 ^Stamens 6 ; filaments thickened at top. Female fl. : Staminodes 6, 

 clavate. Ovaries 3 ; stigmas forked. Drupes 1 — 3, dorsally convex, 

 ventrally flat. Putamen tubercled, dorsally keeled, intruding. 

 Albumen ruminate ; cotyledons leafy. 



Leaves large, woolly beneatb. Flowers green ... 1« T. maldbarica^ 

 Leaves smaller, glabrous, Plowers yellow ... 2. T, cordifoHa, 



