1889.] G. King— MaU'riah for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 377 

 Oedee V. MENISPERMACE^. 

 Climbing or twining, rarely Barmeutoso, slirubs. Leaves alternate, 

 entire or lobed, usually palminerved ; stipules 0. Floiuers small or 

 minute, solitary fascicled oymose or racemod, dioecious, sometimes 3- 

 bracteolate. Sepals (3 (rarely 1 to 4, or 9 to 12), usually free, imbricate 

 in 2 to 4 series, outer otteu minute. Petals 6 (rarely 0 or 1 to 5), free or 

 connate. <7 Flowers ; Stamens hypogynous, usually one opposite each 

 petal, filaments free or connate ; anthers free or connate, 2-oelled. Eu.a- 

 mentary carpels small or 0. 9 Flowers: staminodes 6 or 0. Ovaries 3 

 (rarely 1 or G to 12) ; stylo terminal, simple or divided ; ovules solitary 

 (2 in Fihraurea), usually amphitropous. Ripe carpels drupaceous 

 with the style-scar subterminal, or by excentric growth subbasal. Seed 

 usually hooked or reniform, often carved round an intrusion of the 

 endocarp (condyle Miers), albumen even or ruminate or 0; cotyledons 

 flat or semiterete, foliaceous or fleshy, appressed or spreadmg.-A large 

 tropical order ; genera 32 ; species about 100. „ o -n 



Tribe I. Tinosporeco. Flowers Ovanes mx,My 3. Drupes 



with a subterminal rarely ventral or subbasal style-scar. Seed oblong 

 or subgloboso ; albumen copious or scanty ; cotyledons foliaceous, usually 

 spreading laterally. 



Drupes with a terminal or subterminal style-scar. 



Sepals 6 ; petals 6; filaments free 1. Tinospora. 



Sepals 9; petals 6; filaments free 2. Tinoimsamm. 



Sepals 6 ; petals 0 ; filaments f reo 3. Fihraurea. 



Drupes with a subbasal style-scar. 



Sepals 6 ; filaments all connate 4. Anannrta. 



Sepals 9 ; outer filaments free 6. Goscmium. 



Tribe II Oocaidefe. Flowers 3-merous. Ovaries usually 3. Drupe 

 with a subbasal rarely subterminal style-scar. Seed horse-shoe shaped, 

 albumen copious; embryo slender, cotyledons linear or slightly dilated. 

 Sepals 3 to 10, all imbricate ; petals 4 to 6, stamens 

 6 to 10, ovaries 3 to 6, style canaliculate sub- 

 3.1obed ... ... - , ... G. Hypserpa. 



Sepals 9, the inner 3 valvate ; petals 3 or 0, 



ovaries 3, style compressed ... ... 7. Limacta. 



ovaries o, B^^fia v^^^^^,* 



Petals 0; ovaries 3 to 6 ; styles subulate ... 8. Oocculm. 



Petals 6 ; ovaries 3 ; style forked ... ... 9. Pericampylus 



Tribe III Oissampelidem. Flowers 3 to 5-merous. Ovaries usually 

 solitary. Drupe with a subbasal style-scar; endocarp dorsally muricato 

 or ecWnato. Seed horse-shoe-shaped, albumen scanty; embryo linear. 



^"t::r^triO:L; petals of . and . 3 5.free... 10. Step.ania^ 

 Sepals 4, free ; petals of c? 4 connate, of ? 1 ... U. Ousav^pelos. 



