Flora Medica

MENISPERMACE/E.added to every 10 quarters of malt. It is however a deadly poison inover doses. A case is quoted by Dr. Christison of soup, seasonedwith itby mistake, having produced sickness, vomiting, with pain inthe stomach and bowels in nine persons, one of whom it is added diedin 12 days.CLYPEA.Dioecious. Calyx of 6 sepals in a double series, with 3-6close pressed bracteoles. .$ Stamens united into a centralcolumn, dilated at the apex, bearing several 2-celled anthers ;cells opening horizontally, placed end to end, and forming a ringround the top of the column. J . Ovary solitary. Stigmas 3,(or rarely 6?). Drupe obliquely reniform; nut compressed,wrinkled round the margin. Seed solitary uncinate. Albumenfleshy. Embryo terete, of the same shape, and about as long asthe seed. Leaves peltate. Panicles axillary, both male andfemale without cordate bracteas. W. and A.769. C. Burmanni W. and A. i. 14-. Cocculus Burmanni andpeltatus DC. syst.i. 516. Menispermum peltatum Lam. diet,iv. 96. (Rheede vii. t. 49. Burm. zeyl. t. 101. WaltieddeGcertn.fr. ii. t. 180.) Malabar, Coromandel and Ceylon.Root long and thick like that of a common Carrot in form and size.Stems slender, green and hairy. Leaves triangular, acuminated, mucronate,slightly cordate at the base, upper side shining and sprinkledwith a few hairs, under more or less densely pubescent ; panicles narrow,elongated, much longer than the leaves ;branches alternate.Root employed in intermittent fevers and liver it is complaints; extremelybitter and used against dysentery and haemorrhoids in Malabar.CISSAMPELOS.Dioecious. $ .Sepals 8 in a triple series, the 4- inner unitedinto a cup, with usually an entire margin. Stamens united intoa slender column dilated at the apex, bearing two 2-celled anthersopening horizontally cells ;placed end to end and forminga 4-lobed 4-celled annulus round the top of the column. ? Ca-.lyx of 2 lateral sepals, 1 petal in front of the other. Ovarysolitary. Stigmas 3. Drupe obliquely reniform; nut compressed,wrinkled round its margin. Seed solitary, uncinate.Embryo long, terete, enclosed in a fleshy albumen. Twiningshrubs. Leaves peltate or cordate, mucronulate at the apex.Racemes axillary;of the males usually trichotomously branchedand somewhat corymbose, with subulate small bracteas, or withnone at all ;of the females simple, elongated, bearing broad alternatefoliaceous bracteas, with several 1 -flowered pedicelsintheir axil. W. and A. chiefly.770. C. PareiraZiVm. sp.pl 14-73. Swartzobs. 380. 1. 10. f. 5.Lam. ilhistr. t. 830. Woodv. t. 82. DC. syst. \. 533. (Plum.372