. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. Cijclea] V. MEMSPERMACEiE 23 1. STEPHANIA, Lour.; EL Brit. Ind. i. 102- Slender but widely spreading perennial glabrous climbers, hardly woody. Leaves peltate, membranous, basal nerves numerous. El. umbellate, in com- pound pedunculate umbels. $ : Sepals 6-10, ovate or obovate, petals 3-5, obovate, fleshy, anthers 0, connate round the top of the staminal column. ? : Sepals 1-5, petals of male, no staminodes. Ovary 1, style 3-6 partite. Endocarp
. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. Cijclea] V. MEMSPERMACEiE 23 1. STEPHANIA, Lour.; EL Brit. Ind. i. 102- Slender but widely spreading perennial glabrous climbers, hardly woody. Leaves peltate, membranous, basal nerves numerous. El. umbellate, in com- pound pedunculate umbels. $ : Sepals 6-10, ovate or obovate, petals 3-5, obovate, fleshy, anthers 0, connate round the top of the staminal column. ? : Sepals 1-5, petals of male, no staminodes. Ovary 1, style 3-6 partite. Endocarp horseshoe shaped, tubercled. Seed almost annular. About 8 species, from tropical Africa to Polynesia and Australia. 1. S. hernandifolia, Walp.—Syn. Clypea hernandifolia^ W. & A.; Wight Ic. t. 939. Leaves ovate, pale beneath, blade 2-4, petiole 1-2 in. Umbels capitate, ripe carpels |- in. diam., fasciculate (one only in each flower). Subhimalayan tract, from Nepal eastwards, Assam, Khasi liills, Bengal, Burma, Western Ghats and coast, Ceylon. EL March-August. Malay Peninsula and Arclii- pelago, Oocliincliina, Southern China, Polynesia and Australia. 2. S. rotunda, Lour.; Vern. Farha, Dun. Subhimalayan tract from the Jumna eastwards, ascending to 6,000 ft. Assam to Burma, Western G-hats and coast. A large bulbous-rooted climber; leaves round, often sinuate-lobed, 3-7 in. diam.; fl. yellow, on slender pedicels. 3. S. elegans, Hook. ill. & Thorns. Subhimalayan tract from Garhwal eastwards, ascending to 6,000 ft. Khasi hills. A wdry climber; leaves elongate-deltoid, acuminate, 2-4 in.; metallic lustre underneath. Peduncles filiform, longer than petioles. Berries small, red, transparent. Cissampelos Pareira, Linn.; Brandis, F. Fl. 10 5 Collett Simla Pi. fig. 7,—Yern. Rafori, imtahi^ tiJcri^ Pb.; Parhe, Dun, is a climber with herbaceous or slender woody branches, on a short stout stem; branches more or less grey tomentose; leaves generally peltate; male fl. tetramerous, i
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