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2. Stephania rotunda. Lour. ; FI. Br. Ind. i. 103. Leaves 
broadly ovate or orbicular, 3-7 in. across, sinuate, lower surface 
pale. Umbels axillary, solitary or several in a long-stalked cyme. 
Flowers -J-|- in. diam., green-yellow ; sepals narrowly wedge- 
shaped. Drupe red. 
Valleys below Simla ; July, August. — Hilly districts throughout India, 
ascending to 6000 ft. — Siam, Cochin-China. 
3. CISSAMPELOS. From the Greek cissus, ivy, and ampelos, 
a vine, referring to the habit of the plants. — -All hot regions. 
Cissampelos Pareira, Linn. ; FI. Br. Ind. i. 103. A climbing, 
softly pubescent or tomentose shrub. Leaves orbicular or broadly 
ovate, 1-4 in. across, peltate or cordate. Flowers small. Male 
flowers in stalked, branched cymes, clustered in the leaf-axils or 
borne on long, axillary, raceme-like shoots, each cyme in the axil of 
a small leaf -like bract ; sepals 4, hairy, ovate, spreading ; petals 
united in a shallow, 4-lobed cup ; stamens 4, filaments united in a 
very short column, top dilated, peltate, anthers sessile round the 
margin. Female flowers clustered in the axils of orbicular bracts 
crowded in long, axillary racemes ; sepal 1, pubescent, broadly 
