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CissUS QUINQUEFOLIA. FIVE-LEAVED Braziu 
Cissus. 
Class and Order. | | 
Trerranpria Monoeynia. 
Generic Character. 
Bacca \-sperma, cincta calyce. Corolla quadripartita. 
Specific Character and Synonym. 
Cissus guinquefolia ; foliis quinatis : foliolis utrinque atten- 
uatis acuminatis serratis pedicellatis, ramis teretibus 
nodosis lavibus. | 
Cissus guinguefolia; foliis quinatis ellipticis serratis gla- 
bris, ramis levibus. . Soland. Mss. ; 
Descr. Stem ligneous at the lower part: Branches nu- 
merous, rounded, fleshy, swelled at the joints. Leaves 
alternate, petioled, quinate: leaflets petioled, elliptic (or 
attenuated at both extremities) unequally and acutely ser- 
rate, smooth, thin, unequal, the middle one the largest, 
being often three inches long. Common petiole mostly an 
inch and half long; partial ones four times shorter than the 
leaflets. Peduncles opposed to the petioles, longer than 
these, naked, branched: branchlets terminating in small 
compounded cymes. Bractes minute, lanceolate, one 
under each branchlet of the cyme. Calyx small, urceolate, 
obtusely four-toothed. Petals four, small, concave. 
The above description is chiefly translated from the 
late Dr. Soranper’s manuscripts in the Banksian library, 
where it is said to be a native of the isle of Raza, near the 
mouth of the river Rio Janeiro, Brazil. 
This species must not be confounded with pentaphylla, a 
native of Japan, nor with guinata, a native of the Cape. 
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