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Order V. MENISPERMACB^B. 
Climbing or twining, rarely sarmentose, shrubs. Leaves alternate, 
entire or lobed, usually pal miner ved ; stipules 0. Flowers small or 
minute, solitary fascicled cymose or raceined, dioecious, sometimes 3- 
bracteolate. Sepals 6 (rarely 1 to 4, or 9 to 12), usually free, imbricate 
in 2 to 4 series, outer often minute. Petals 6 (rarely 0 or 1 to 5), free or 
connate. d 1 Flowers : Stamens hypogynous, usually one opposite each 
petal, filaments free or connate ; anthers free or connate, 2-celled. Rudi- 
mentary carpels small or 0. ? Flowers : staminodes 6 or 0. Ovaries 3 
(rarely 1, or 6 to 1*2) ; style terminal, simple or divided ; ovules solitary 
(2 in Fibraurea), usually atnphitropous. Ripe carpels drupaceous, 
with the style-scar subterminal, or by excentric growth subbasal. Seed 
usually hooked or rcniforra, often curved round an intrusion of the 
eudocarp (condyle Miers), albumen even or ruminate or 0; cotyledons 
flat or semiterete, foliaceous or fleshy, appressed or spreading. — A large 
tropical order ; genera 32 ; species about 100, 
Tribe I. Tinu$pore>&. Flowers 3-incrous. Ovaries usually 3. Drupes 
with a subtermiual rarely ventral or subbasal stylo-scar. Seed oblong 
or snbglobose ; albumen copious or scanty; cotyledons foliaceous, usually 
spreading laterally. 
Drupes with a terminal or subtermiual style-scar. 
Sepals 6 ; petals 6 ; filaments free 1. Tinospora. 
Sepals 9 ; petals 6; filaments free ... ... 2. Tinoirtiscium. 
Sepals b' ; petals 0 ; filaments f reo 3. Fibraurea. 
Drupes with a subbasal stylo-scar. 
Sepals 6; filaments all connate ... ... 4. Anamirta. 
Sepals 9 ; outer filaments free ... ... 5. Coscinium. 
Tribe II. Coccidew. 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 C, style canaliculate sub- 
3-lobed ... ... ... ... 6. Hypserpa, 
Sepals 9, the inner 3 valvate ; petals 3 or 6, 
ovaries 3, style compressed ... ... 7. Limacia. 
Petals 6; ovaries 3 to 6 ; styles subulate ... 8. Cocculas. 
Petals 6; ovaries 3; style forked ... ... 9, Fericampylus. 
Tribe III. CimtmpvUlm. Flowers 3 to 5-merous. Ovaries usually 
solitary. Drupe with a subbasal style-scar ; endocarp dorsally muricate 
or eohinate. Seed horse-shoe-shaped, albumon scanty; embryo linear, 
cotyledons appressed. 
Sepals 0 to 10, free; petals of 6* and 2 3-5, free... 10. Stepkania, 
Sepals 4, free ; petals of 6* 4 connate, of 2 1 ... KL Cissampelos. 
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