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staminal column, bursting transversely. Female flower: sepals 3 to b. 
Petals of the male. Staminodes 0. Ovary 1 ; style 3 to (5-partite. Drupe 
glabrous ; endocarp compressed, horse-shoe-shaped, dorsal lj tubercled, 
sides hollowed and perforated. Seed almost annular ; cotyledons long, 
slender, |-terete, appressed. — Distrib. Tropics of the Old World. 
1. S. hebnaxtdifolia, Watp, Rep. i, 9G, Toung branches striate, 
glabrous. Leaves membranous, broadly ovate-rotund, acute or acuminate, 
rarely obtuse, peltate; the base truncate, emarginato or sub-cordate ; 
glabrous or sparsely pubescent j 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. Umbels on long slender peduncles, many-flowered. 
Petals 3 to 4. Drupes red, pisiform, compressed. Hook. fil. PI, Br. 
Ind. i, 103; Hf. & T. PI. Ind. 196 j Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i, Pt. 1, 83. 
Miers Contrib. iii. 222. 8, interfexfu, lat (folia, and hypoglauca, Miers I. c. 
224, 226, 227. Cissampehs hermndifolia-, Willd. ; DC. Prodr. i. 100 ; 
Roxb. FL Ind. iii. 842 ; Wall. Cat. 4977 D, E, F, G, H, K. O. discolor, 
DC. I.e. i. 1 01 ; Bl. Bijdr. 26. 0. hexandra, Roxb. La. iii. 842. Clypea 
hemandifolia, W. &. A. Prodr. i. 14; Wight Ic. t. 939. Steph. discolor, 
Hassle. PI. Jav. rar. 168. 
Common in shady places. Distrib, The Malayan Archipelago, 
British India, Australia, Africa. 
13. Cissampelos, Linn. 
Suberect or climbing Hhrubs. Leaves often peltate. Male flowers 
cymose. Sepals 4, 5 or 6, erose. Petals 4, connate, forming a 4-lobed 
cnp. Anthers 4, connate, encircling the top of the staminal column, 
bursting transversely. Female flower : racemed, crowded in the axils of 
leafy bracts. Sejmls 2 (or sepal and petal 1 each), 2-nervcd, adnate to tho 
bracts. Staminodes 0. Ovary 1 \ style short, 3-fid or 3- toothed. Drupe 
ovoid, stylo-scar sub-basnl ; endocarp horse-shoe-shaped, compressed, 
dorsal ly tubcrclod, sides excavated. Seed curved ; embryo slender ; 
cotyledons narrow, £ -terete, appressed. — Distrib. All hot climates, 
1. C. Pareira, Linn. Young branches pubescent. Leaves usually 
peltate, membraneous, orbicular-reniform OX conlufo, obtltse and p&ttCttO- 
nate, rarely acute, base truncate to cordate, above glabrescent, below 
pubescont to tomentose ; length 1*8 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. Ripe 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 ; DC. Prod. i. 100; Miers* 
Contrib. iii. 139: 0. caapeba, Linn. Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 842. C. convo- 
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