conical, at length elongated torus: styles minute: stigmas simple :
ovules 1 -2 . Carpels baccate in fruit, 1-2-seeded, loosely spicate upon
the slender and much elongated torus (glomerate on the conical torus
in Kadsura). Albumen fleshy, homogeneous.—Trailing or twining
glabrous shrubs (somewhat aromatic). Leaves alternate, entire or
denticulate, minutely and sparsely punctate (as also the petals) with
pellucid dots. Flowers axillary, on slender peduncles; the uppermost
staminate.
1. SCHIZANDRA. Michx. fl. 2.p . 218. t. 47.
Monoecious. Sepals and petals 9-12, confounded with each other, roundish
concave. Stamens 5: anthers subsessile, connate. Carpels inequilateral’
1-seeded, loosely scattered in fruit on the filiform torus. “ Embryo included
in fleshy green albumen; radicle oblong; cotyledons ovate.” Richard in
Michx.—A trailing or somewhat twining shrub. Leaves entire or repandlv
denticulate. Flowers small, crimson.
S. coccinea (Michx. 1. c.)—Ell. sk. 2. » .5 8 2 ; DC. svst 1 ® 544 • Tint
mag. t. 1413 ; Audubon, birds o f Amer. t. 74. V ' ' P' ' ’ ' ■
S - Carolina! Georgia! and Louisiana ! May-June—
Stem 10-15 feet long. Leaves ovate or oval, mostly acute or acuminate at
S t f - S S S S S ? ; toms
a s s
Or d e r Y. MENISPERMACEiE. Juss.
Flowers dioecious, rarely monoecious or polygamous. Sepals usually
m a double row, 2 -4 in each, imbricated in aestivation, deciduous.
Petals 1 -8 (usually equal in number to the sepals), hypogynous dis"
tinct or sometimes united, rarely none. Stamens distinct or m’ona-
delphous, equal in number to the petals and opposite them, or 2 -4 times
as m an y : anthers adnate (extrorse or introrse !), or innate and consisting
o f 4 globose lobes, or with the cells horizontal and placed end
to end, opening longitudinally. Ovaries usually several, distinct or
rarely umted. Drupes baccate, 1-seeded, oblique or lunate, or incurved
so that the apex and base are brought into con ta ct; the nut (endo
carp) bony, and often tuberculate on the broad margin. Seed hetero
tropous, conformed to the cavity o f the nut. Embryo curved, included
in the rather thin fleshy albumen : radicle directed towards the s ty le __
Flexible and climbing shrubs or suffruticose plants. Leaves alternate,
without stipules, simple, palmately veined. Flowers minute, in racemes
or panicles.
The true structure of the fruit in
Flora Brazilise Meridiqnalis. After feciimdation the ovary base. The
^ of
Cocculus.
1. COCCULUS. Bauhin; DC. syst. l.p . 515.
Flowers dioecious. Sepals 6, in a double series. Petals 6, distinct S terile
F l. Stamens 6 (rarely 3), distinct. F ertile F l Sometimes 6 abortive
stamens. Ovaries 3-6. Drupes 1- 6—Racemes axillary.
Differs from Menispermum chiefly in the stamens being equal in number to the
s e S f ^ r rarfy hSf as many), and not twice or more than twice as numerous.
1 C Carolinus (DC.): minutely pubescent; leaves cordate or ovate, en-
tire' or obscurely lobed (rarely hastately 3-lobed), mostly obtuse mucronate,
velvety-pubescent underneath; petals biaunculate at the ^ s e an^mbramn
the filaments, emarginate; anthers mnate Ulobed; ovaries 3 6- D C y t.
1 v. 524. Menispermum Carolmianum, Walt.
242 Wendlandia populifolia, Willd. sp. 2. p. 275; Pursh, fl. . p. •
fexcl svn) W. Carolinian a, Nutt. ! gen. 1. p. 441. .
( Woods and banks of rivers, North Carolina, Mr. Curtis ! Georgia, Le
Conte' Mississippi, Nuttall! Arkansas, Dr. Pitcher / Kentucky, Dr
uhort i__Stem slender, sarmentose. Leaves extremely variable m form, 2 4
ScheslorS md of nearly the same breadth, often quite entire but usually
with several sinuate obtuse lobes, sometimes
what coriaceous when mature: petioles 1-4 mches long, b lowers sometimes
nolva-amous'? S terile F l. in compound racemes which are often 3-parted to
tlmbase greenish-white. Bracteoles mostly sohtary. Sepals 6, orbicular, or
otovate ’concTve Petals 6, fleshy, with 2 indexed auricles at the base of
each Stamens 6 : filaments thickened at the summit, on which is borne the
didvmous anther-cells appearing like 4 approximated spherules. Drupe red,
a & a s T s m ^ p e a , cLpr^fsed; the nut curved into nearly a complete
rm ” notchedTn the Margin Seed terete, filling the circular cavity of the
nut.’ Embryo in the axis of the fleshy albumen and about the same length .
2. MENISPERMUM. L in n .; DC. syst. l.p . 539,
Flowers dioecious. Sepals 4-8, in a double series. Petals 4-7, in a double
series ; sometimes none. S terile F l. Stamens 12-20, distinct F ertile
F l. Ovaries 2-4 (usually solitary): Drupes 1-4 (usually sohtary), globose-
reniform.—Racemes axillary or supra-axillary. Sterile and fertile flowers
often dissimilar.
InM. Dauricum, DC. (Deless. ic. t. 100.) the sepals are 6 in number and the
corolla is wanting.