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III. MENISPERMACEiE 
An erect shrub or small tree. Glabrous . . . . 1. C. laurifohus. 
Chmbing shrubs. Tomentose or pubescent. 
Tomentose or hairy. Male flowers in axillary panicles 2. C. villosus. 
Pubescent. Male flowers in sessile, axillary clusters . 3. G. Leceba. 
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 
numerous, 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. Ind. 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 J 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. Ind. i. 102. A grey-pubescent, 
chmbing shrub. Leaves ^-1J 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. Stephania elegans, Hook. f. & Thoms. ; FI. Br. Ind. i. 103. 
Leaves about 4x2J 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 ~ in. diam., 
red-purple, sepals obovate. Drupe red. 
Valleys below Simla ; September. — Sikkim to Simla, 6000 ft. 
