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III. MENISPERMACEiE 
An erect shrub or small tree. Glabrous . . . . 1 . C. laurifolius. 
Climbing shrubs. Tomentose or pubescent. 
Tomentose or hairy. Male flowers in axillary panicles 2. C. villosus. 
Pubescent. Male flowers in sessile, axillary clusters . 3. C. Lecsba. 
1. Cocculus laurifolius, DC. ; FI. Br. Ind. i. 101. An erect 
shrub or small tree. Leaves 3-5 in., glabrous, shining, shortly 
stalked, dark green, lanceolate, 3-nerved, entire. Flowers numer- 
ous, in narrow, axillary panicles shorter than the leaves. Drupe 
black. 
Sutlej valley ; April. — Outer Himalaya up to 5000 ft. — Japan. 
2. Cocculus villosus, DC. ; FI. Br. I?id. i. 101. A climbing, 
grey-tomentose, more or less hairy shrub. Leaves ovate or ovate- 
oblong, 1-3 in. Male flowers few, in narrow, axillary panicles 
1-1^ in. long. Female flowers 1-3, sessile at the end of short 
axillary stalks, sometimes racemed. Drupe dark purple, stone 
beautifully moulded. 
Giri valley ; September. — Throughout India, ascending to 3000 ft.- -Africa. 
3. Cocculus Leseba, DC. ; FI. Br. Did. i. 102. A grey -pubes cent, 
climbing shrub. Leaves in., variable in shape, narrowly 
oblong or ovate, sometimes lobed. Male flowers crowded in small, 
sessile, axillary clusters. Female 1-3, sessile at the end of short 
axillary stalks. Drupe dark purple. 
Valleys below Simla ; August, September. — Plains of India, ascending to 
3000 ft.—' W. Asia, Africa. 
2. STEPHANIA. From the Greek stephanos, a crown, refer- 
ring to the ring of anthers on the top of the staminal column.— 
Tropics of the Old World. 
Glabrous, climbing shrubs. Leaves peltate, orbicular or 
triangular. Flowers small, umbellate. Male flowers : sepals 6 ; 
petals 3, thick, fleshy ; stamens 6, the filaments united in a column, 
top dilated, peltate, the anthers forming a ring round the margin. 
Female flowers : sepals 3 ; petals 3, thick, fleshy ; ovary single, 
style 3-parted. Drupe small, globose. 
Leaves triangular. Flowers purple 1. S. elegans. 
Leaves orbicular. Flowers yellow . . . . . 2. S. rotunda. 
1. Stephauia elegans, Hook. f. & Thoms. ; FI. Br. Did. i. 103. 
Leaves about 4x2| in., varying much in size, triangular-ovate, 
entire, acute, base rounded, lower surface pale. Umbels axillary, 
solitary or several in a long-stalked cyme. Flowers - r l o in. diam., 
red-purple, sepals ohovate. Drupe red. 
Valleys below Simla ; September. - Sikkim to Simla, (5000 ft. 
