Tas. 8278. 
CISSUS ApENOPODUS. 
Uganda. 
AMPELIDACEAE. 
Cissus, Linn.; Planch. in DC. Monogr. Phanerog. vol. Vv. p. 470.—Vitis, Linn. ; 
Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol, i. p. 387, partim. 
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~ Cissus (Cyphostemma) adenopodus, Sprague in Kew Bull. 1906, p. 247; 
species insignis foliis pracsertim junioribus subtus rubris, paniculis planis 
ambitu triangularibus, pedicellis conspicue glanduloso-pilosis. 
Herba, ope cirrhoram seandens. Radix tuberosa. Cuulis teres, ut petioli 
petioluli cirrhique pilis numerosis multiseptatis et aliis glanduloso-capitatis 
paucioribus induta. Folia trifoliata; petioli subteretes, 3-6 cm. longi; 
petioluli 4-15 mm. longi, medius quam laterales longior ; foliola ovata, 
acute acuminata, grosse serrata, lateralia basi inequaliter rotundata, ter- 
minale basi obtusum, 5-10 em. longa, 38-55 em. lata, utrinque setulosa, 
supra viridia venis depressis, subtus rubra venis prominentibus; stipulae . 
talcato-lanceolatae, acutae, usque ad 1 em. longae. Paniculae oppositifoliae, 
planae, ambitu triangulares, circiter 10 em. longae pedunculo 3°5 em. 
longo excluso, patule pilosae, rhachi rubra vel viridula, ramis alternantibus ; 
bracteae inconspicuae: pedicelli circiter 4 mm. longi, pilis glanduloso- 
capitatis conspicuis et aliis eglandulosis brevibus inconspicuis induti, post 
anthesin resurvi. -A/abustra circiter 3 mm. longa, apice pilosa. Calyx 
cupularis, usque ad 1 mm. altus, basi puberulus. Petala oblonga, 4 mm. 
longa, apice cucullata, cucullo piloso ceterum glabra, anthesi valde deflexa. 
Stamina prima anthesi ad stylum appressa; filamenta circiter 3 mm. longa; 
antherae late elliptieae, 0°7 mm. longas. Ovarii lobi 0°7 mm. longi; 
stylus 2°5 mm. longus. acca globusa, usque ad 1°5 em. diametro.— 
T. A. SPRAGUE. 
Cissus adenopodus is a species that does not appear to be 
ted ee abe hitherto ecient might 
perhaps be placed beside C. Buchanani, Planch. (Monogr. 
p- 601) which differs in having 5 leaflets and a very 
elandular inflorescence. For the introduction of this plant 
Kew is indebted to Mr. M. T. Dawe, who sent it in 1905 
from the Mufukamata Forest, Uganda, as a “ species of Vitis 
with red decorative foliage.” It has grown very vigorously 
in a tropical house, where its long trailing stems, clothed 
with red leaves, are very attractive in summer. The leaves, 
as in the other species of the section to which it belongs, 
are deciduous; the measurements given in the text are 
average ones, the largest adult leaves met with reach a 
October, 1909, 
