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Sepals 4 to 8, connate ; petals of i 4 to 8 connate, 

 of 5 1, anthei-s sessile on a central column ... 12. Cyclea. 



Tribe IV. Pachyrjonem. Flowers usually 3-merous. Ovaries usu- 

 ally '6. Drupes -witli a subbasal or ventral style-scar. Seed curved, 

 booked or iuflexed, albumen 0 ; cotyledons thick fleshy. 



Sepals 8 ; petals 2 ; stamens 4 or 8 ... ... 13. Antitaceis. 



1. TiNOSPOBA, Miers. 



Climbing slirubs. Flowers in axillai'y or terminal racemes or pani- 

 cles. Sepals G, 2-seriate, inner larger membranous. Petals 6, smaller. 

 Male flower: stamens 6, filaments free, the tips thickened: anther cells 

 obliquely adnate, bursting obliquely. Female flower : staminodes 6,olavate. 

 Ouuries 3 ; stigmas forked. Drupes 1-3, dorsally convex, ventrally flat ; 

 stj-le-scar subterminal : endocarp rugose, dorsally keeled, ventrally 

 concave. Seed grooved ventrally or curved round tbe intruded sub- 

 2-lobed endocarp ; albumen ventrally ruminate ; cotyledons foliaceous, 

 ovate, spreading. — Distrib. Species about 8, tropical Asiatic and 

 African. 



1. T. CRisPA, Miers Ooutrib. Ill, 34. Young shoots glabrous, tbe 

 older bark warted. Leaves membranous, glabrous, ovate-cordato or 

 oblong-acuminate, entire or repaud, sometimes sub-sagittate ; length of 

 blade 2 to 6 in., breadth 1 to 4 in., petiole 1 to 3 in. Macemes irom the old 

 wood, solitary or fascicled. Flowers 2 to 3, in the axils of ovate fleshy 

 bracts, '15 in. long, campanulate, green. Stamens adnate to the base of 

 the petals, anthers quadrate. Drupe elliptic-oblong, pale yellow, about 

 ] -5 in. long or less. Hook, fil, Fl. B. Ind. I, 96 ; H. f . & T. Fl. Iiid. 

 183 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, pt. i, 78 ; Kurz For. Flor. Burmah, I, 52. 

 Menispermwn crispum, L. M. verrucosum, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii, 808. M. 

 tuherciilatmn, Lamk. Coccnhis crispiis, DO. Prodr. i. 97 ; Hassk. PI. 

 Jav. Rar. 166. Gocaulus coriaceous, Bl. Bijd. 25. 0. verrucosus, Wall. 

 Cat. 4966 A. B. 



In all the provinces, but apparently not very common. Distrib. 

 Malayan Archipelago : tropical British India. 



2. T. ULIGINOSA, Miers Contrib. iii, 35. All parts glabrous, the 

 branches terete, the lax brown bark bearing many 4-lobed warts. Leaves 

 subcoriaceous, remote, ovate or ovate-oblong, acuminate, sub-repand- 

 sinuate or entire, the base cordate 6-nervcd ; venation prominent ; length 

 of blade 3 to 4 in., breadth I'S to 2 in. : petiole slender, swollen at the base, 

 1 to 2 in. long. Eacemes slender, axillary, longer than the leaves: 

 pedicels 1-flowered. Urupe as in T. crispa, but with thinner endocarp. 

 Hook. fil. Fl. B. Ind. i. 97. Hook fil. & Thorns. Fl. Ind. 105. Coccidas 

 petiolaris, Wall. Cat. 



