Title: Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire
Identifier: CUbiodiversity690553 (find matches)
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Brandis, Dietrich, Sir, 1824-1907
Subjects: Trees
Publisher: London : A. Constable & Co. , Ltd
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Mann Library, Cornell

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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, in small lax cymose clusters, at the end of short slender axillary peduncles; female fl. in elongate simple or compound racemes, with numerous broad alternate foliaceous bracts, ovary 1. Bipe carpels J in. diam., style scar basal, endocarp transversely ridged and tuberculate, seed liorseshoe shaped. Subhimalayan tract, from the Indus eastwards, ascending to 4,000 ft. Chota Nagpore. Common in both joeninsulas, not in the arid region. PI. March-October. Cosmopolitan in tropical and subtroi^ical countries. 2. CYCLE A, Arnott; PI. Brit. Ind. i. 104. Climbing shrubs, branchlets longitudinally ribbed, leaves peltate, fl. in axillary panicles. Male: Calyx 4-8 lobed, petals 4-8, more or less connate. Anthers 4-6, on the top of the staminal column, connate, bursting transversely. Female: Sepal 1 oblong, petal 1 orbicular. Ovary 1, style short, 3-5 lobed. Drupe pisiform, style soar near base, endocarp tubercled, seed horseshoe shaped. Species 6. Madagascar, India, China.
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Pia. 8.—Cyclea peltata, Hook fil. & Thorns. J.

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