Cissus striata of the Flora Peruviana resembles our plant | 
in many points, but in that the branches are striate, in 
this rounded and smooth ; jn that the leaflets are sessile, 
and serrate towards the point only, in this they are pedi- 
cled, entirely serrate and acuminate; not to mention that 
our plant is void of all pubescence in every part. 
It was observed by Professor Tuungere in his Flora 
Japonica, that Cissus and Vitis must be united into one 
genus, varying with four or five stamens, and some modern 
botanists have accordingly united them ; but, in the hope 
that some characters will be found, especially when the 
fruit shall have been more attentively examined, sufficient 
to keep them distinct, we have preferred adhering to the 
old division, according to which our plant must be arranged 
with Cissus. It has no appearance of the petals being 
united at the points, forming a sort of Calyptra, a circum- 
stance so common in the genus Vitis; but we fear not 
constant enough to form a generic character. Had the 
one-seeded berry in Cissus, and five-seeded in Viris been 
found to be constant, no idea of uniting the two could 
have existed. 
Our drawing was made in August last, at the garden 
poten ging to the Horticultural Society at Chiswick, where 
the plant was raised from seeds sent to the Society in 1821, 
by Atexanper Catpcteven, Esq. from Rio Janeiro, Being 
a native of a country situate within the tropics, it of course 
requires to be preserved in the stove. 
