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staminal column, bursting transversely. Female flower : sepals 3 to 5. 

 Petals of the male. Staniinodes 0. Ovary 1 ; style 3 to 6-partito. Bnipe 

 glabrous ; endocarp compressed, horse-sboe-sbaped, dorsally tubercled, 

 sides hollowed and perforated. Seed almost annular ; cotyledons long, 

 slender, ^-terete, appressed. — Distrib. Tropics of the Old World. 



1. S. HEBNANDiFOLiA, Walp. Rep. i, 9G. Young branches striate, 

 glabrous, Leaves membranous, broadly ovate-rotund, acute or acuminate, 

 rarely obtuse, peltate ; the base truncate, emarginate or sub-cordate ; 

 glabrous or sparsely pubescent ; nerves about 10 radiating from the 

 petiolar insertion, dark-coloured on the pale or glaucous under surface, 

 reticulations open • length of blade 2'5 to 5 in., breadth 2'25 to 3 in. 

 petiole 1"75 to 2 in. Uvibels on long slender peduncles, many-flowered. 

 Petals 3 to 4. Drupes red, pisiform, compressed. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. 

 Ind. i, 103; Hf. & T. Fl. Ind. 196; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat, i, Pt. 1, 83. 

 Miers Contrib. iii. 222. 8. intcr/rxin, latifolia, and hypoglauca, Miers I. c. 

 224, 226, 227. Oissampelos hcr„awl!f,l!a, Willd. ; DO. Prodr. i. 100; 

 Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 842 ; Wall. Cat. 4977 D, E, F, G, H, K. 0. discolor, 

 DO. Z.c. i. 101 ; Bl. Bijdr. 26. 0. hexandra, Roxb. I.e. iii. 842. Clypea 

 lernandifolia, W. &. A. Prodr. i. 14 ; Wight Ic. t, 939. Stepli. discolor, 

 Hassk. PI. Jav. rar. 168. 



Common in shady places. Distrib. The Malayan Archipelago, 

 British India, Australia, Africa. 



13. CissAMPELOS, Linn. 



Suberect or climbing shrubs. Leaves often peltate. Male flowers 

 cymose. Sepals 4, 5 or 6, erose. Petals 4, connate, forming a 4-lobed 

 cup. Anthers 4, connate, encircling the top of the staminal column, 

 bursting transversely. Female flower : racemed, crowded in the axils of 

 leafy bracts. Sepals 2 (or sepal and petal 1 each), 2-nerved, adnate to the 

 bracts. Staminodes 0. Ovary 1 ; style short, 3-fid or 3-toothed. Brupe 

 ovoid, stylo-scar sub-basal ; endocarp horse-shoe-shaped, compressed, 

 dorsally tnberoled, sides excavated. See<^ curved ; embryo slender ; 

 cotyledons narrow, J-terete, appressed. — Distrib. All hot climates, 



1. C. Pareiba, Linn. Young bi'anches pubescent. Leaves usually 

 peltate, membraneous, orbiculai'-reniform or cordate, obtuse and mucro- 

 nato, rarely acute, base truncate to cordate, above glabresoent, below 

 pubescent to tomentose ; length PS to 3 in., breadth rather greater, pe- 

 tiole 1 to 3 in. Male cymes 2 or 3, axillary, slender. Female racemes 

 with large reniform or orbicular bracts. Mipe drupes scarlet, sub-globose, 

 hirsute, "2 in. in diam.. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. i. 104 ; H. f. & Th. Fl. 

 Indica 198 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. Pt. 1. 85 ; DO. Prod. i. 100 ; Miers' 

 Contrib. iii. 139 : 0 . caapeha, lAxm. Roxb. Fl. lud. iii. 842. 0. convo- 



