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VII. ME NI SPERM ACE Ai. 
[Tinospora. 
divided. Ovules i (except Fibraurea, 2) usually amphitropous. 
Fruit a drupe. Seed hooked or reniform or straight, often curved 
round an intrusion of the endocarp. Albumen even or ruminate 
or absent. Cotyledons flat or semiterete. About 32 genera. 
100 species. Tropics generally. King, Journ. .Ts. Soc. Beng. 
lviii. (2), 377. 
( а ) Ovaries 3. 
Drupes with a terminal style-scar; stamens free. 
Sepals 3 or 6; petals 6; slender climbers; 
leaves thin, usually herbaceous 
Sepals 6, connate; petals o; slender climber 
Sepals 9; petals 6 . 
Sepals 6; petals o; woody liane 
Drupes with sub-basal scar. 
Woody climbers. 
Sepals 6 ; stamens free; flowers in heads 
Sepals 6; petals 6; stamens free; flowers 
cymosed ...... 
Sepals 9; stamens 9, connate; flowers 
panicled ...... 
Sepals 8; petals 2; stamens 4 to 8 
Slender climbing shrubs ; leaves not coriaceous. 
Sepals 9; petals 3 to 6 
Sepals 6; petals 4 to 6; stamens 3 
Sepals 6; petals 6; ovaries 3 to 6; stamens 
6 to 9 
Sepals 8 to 12; petals 4 to 6 
Sepals 6; petals 6 ; ovaries 3 ; styles forked . 
(б) Ovaries usually 1. Endocarp muricate; leaves 
peltate. 
Sepals 6 to 10; petals 3 to 5, free 
Sepals 4; petals of male 4, female 1 . 
Sepals 4 to 8, connate; anthers on a central 
column ....... 
1. Tinospora 
2. Peripetasma 
3. Tinomiscium 
4. Fibraurea 
5. COSCINIUM 
6. Diploclisia 
7. Arcangelisia 
8. Pycnarrhena 
9. Lxmacia 
10. Tiliacora 
11. Cocculus 
12. Hypserpa 
13. Pericampylus 
14. Stephania 
15. ClSSAMPELOS 
16. Cycle a 
1 . TINOSPORA, Miers. 
Weak climbers with loose pale bark often warted. Leaves 
membranous, rarely sub-coriaceous, cordate or truncate at the 
base, 3- to 5-nerved. Racemes solitary slender rarely branched. 
Males several together. Females solitary. Flowers small, green. 
Sepals 3 to 6, outer series usually smaller than the inner one. 
Petals 5 or 6, widely cuneate-ovate, very small and involute round 
the stamens or larger and free. Stamens 6, free. Females, petals 
minute spathulate-oblong. Staminodes 6, shorter and with the 
petals adnate to the pistils. Carpels 3, ellipsoid. Style short 
thick. Stigma ligulate peltate. Drupes 3 or fewer, stalked 
ellipsoid. Seed flattened moon-shaped, hollowed on ventral side. 
Albumen ruminate. Species 24, tropical Asia, Australia. 
Leaves herbaceous; fruit *25 in. long, red. 
Leaves slightly cordate, base truncate . . . (1) T. crispa 
Leaves truncate at base; fruit 1-25 in. long, yellow. (2} T. macrocarpa 
Leaves sub-coriaceous, base round . . . . (3) T. Curtisii 
