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CISSUS piscotor. | 
Two-coloured Cissus. 
Nat. Ord. AMpELIDEH®.—TrETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Gen. Char. Calyx liber, brevissimus, obsolete quadri- v. rarissime quinque- 
lobus. Corolle petala 4, rarissime 5, disco hypogyno extus inserta, squalia, 
concava, apice cucullata, zstivatione induplicatim valvata, sub anthesi patentia, 
decidua. Stamina 4 vy. rarissime 5, cum petalis inserta, iisdem opposita; jila- 
menta brevia; anthere biloculares, incumbentes, longitudinaliter dehiscentes. 
Ovarium \iberum, disco plus minus immersum, biloculare. Ovula in loculis 
gemina, collateralia, e basi dissepimenti adscendentia, anatropa. Stylus brevis ; 
stigma capitatum, Bacca uni-bilocularis, abortu mono-disperma. Semina erecta, — 
testa ossea, epidermide membranacea. Embryo in axi albuminis dense carnosi 
minimus, orthotropus; radicula infera—Frutices sarmentosi, seandentes, raris- 
sime arbores, inter tropicos totius orbis, imprimis tamen Asie crescentes, in sub- 
tropicis multo rariores ; foliis alternis, stipulatis, simplicibus v. compositis, pedatis 
v. rarius pinnatis bipinnatisve, sepe pellucido-punctatis, petiolatis, petiolo basi ar- 
ticulato ;  ramis foriferis oppositifoliis v. rarissime axitlaribus, sterilibus in cirrho 
conversis ; floribus cymosis, sepissime ad apicem ramulorum umbellatis, umbellis 
involucratis, pedicellis basi articulatis. Endl. 
Cissus discolor; caule scandente angulato, foliis cordato-oblongis acuminatis 
serratis subtus intense purpureo-rubris supra albo-maculatis, stipulis ovatis, 
pedunculo petiolo subequilongo, cymis subtrifidis. . 
Cissus discolor. Blume, Bijdrag. v.1. p. 181. Hasskarl, Cat. Plant. Bogor. 
p- 166. Walp. Repert. Bot, v. 1. p. 437. 
Few plants can be less attractive in the flowers than the Cissus 
here represented, but assuredly none more lovely in the foliage. 
Its native country is Java; but it has now for some few years 
been cultivated in the warm stoves of this country, where, trained 
in a good-sized pot, around a number of small sticks for support, 
it is sure to attract attention by the bright velvety green of the 
upper side of the foliage, spotted or mottled with white, the deep 
red purple of the underside, and the coral-red of the branches. 
The flowers are produced in September. We are indebted for 
our plants to Messrs. Jackson, nurserymen, of Kingston, Surrey. 
Duscr. Stems and éranches twining; the latter bright red, 
FEBRUARY Ist, 1854. 
