3*7 
lenlacea, Willd. Wall. Cat. 4079; W. & A. Prod, i. 14; Roxb. I. c. C. 
orbiculatot discolor and kirsuta. Ham. DC. I. c. 101. C. diversa, gral- 
latoria t eriantha, elata and delicatula, Miers ?. c. 187-189. 0. sub-peltata, 
Thw. Enum. 13 & 399 ; Miers I. c. 195. Menispermnm orbiculatum, 
Linn. 
A common climber in all parts of the Settlements. Distrib. Every- 
where in the Tropics. 
14. CrcLEA, Arnott. 
Climbing shrubs. Leaves usually peltate. Flowers in axillary pani- 
cles ; Male jloiver : sepals 4-8, connate into an inflated 4-5-lobed calyx. 
Petals 4 to 8, more or less connate into a 4 or 8-lobed corolla. Anthers 
4 to 6, connate, crowning 1 the staminal column, bursting transversely. 
Female flmver: sepal 1, oblong. Petal 1, orbicular. Ovary 1; ptylu 
short, 3 to 5-lobed, lobes radiating. Drupe ovoid, stylo-scar subbasnl ; 
endocarp horse-shoe-shaped, dorsally tnbercled, sides convex, 2-loeellate 
(as in Liinacia). Seed curved ; cotyledons slender, terete, appressed. 
— Distrib. Tropical Asia. 
1. C. peltata, H f. & Th. Fl. Indica, 201. Branchlets striate, 
reflexed, pubescent or glabrous. Leaves coriaceous, peltate, deltoid or 
orbicular-ovate, acute or acuminate, often mucronatc, the base truncate 
.to cordate ; above glabrous or glabrescent, beneath pubescent to tomen- 
tose, the 9 nerves rather prominent, length of blade 4*5 to 5*5 in., 
breadth 3" 5 to 4 5 in. ; petiole "2 to 2'5 in., reflexed, pubescent or tomen- 
tose, striate. Panicles usually longer than the leaves, the males often 
much branched and spreading and a foot long, the females smaller. 
Galijx campanulnte, 4-lobed, glabrous or pilose externally. Corolla 
much smaller. Drupe pisiform, pilose ; endocarp much tuberculate. 
Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. i. 104: Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. Pt. 1, 86; Miers 
Contrib. iii. 236 ; C. barbata, Amottii, versicolor, laxiflora and penduUna,, 
Miers I. c. Men-isp. peltatnm f Lamk. Cocculus peltatus, DC. Prod. i. 96. 
Clypea Burmanni t W. & A., in part. Cyclea Burmanni, Arnot in 
Wight 111. i. 22, Rhaptomeris Burmanni, Miers in Tayl. Ann. Ser. 2, 
vii. 41. 
Not common in the Straits Settlements. Distrib. Java, British 
India, Ceylon. 
2. C. elegans, King, nov. spec. Yonng branches spirally striate, 
puberulous, as are the petioles and panicles.; otherwise glabrous. Leaves 
slightly peltate, membranous, shining on both surfaces, the reticulations 
minute, distinct, ovate to ovate-oblong, shortly acuminate, the base 
rounded- or cordate, 7-nerved (4 of the nerves minute) ; length of blade 
3 to 4 in., breadth 1*8 to 2 in., petiole about 1 in. Male and female 
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