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rescence consists of axillary, slender, lax, scorpioid spikes, 24 
inches long, with very small bracteiform mucronate leaflets, each 
enclasping about 7 minute pubescent flowers. 
2. Cissampelos comata, Miers ; foliis suborbicularibus cordatis 
apice emarginatis mucronatis, petiolo sub-brevi,  race- 
mulis 8-4 in axillis junioribus fasciculatis dichotome divisis, 
pedicellis capillaceis, petalo glabro margine crenato, anthera 
8-loba.—On the Quorra ; Vogel ? 
The specimen consists only of a floriferous branchlet about 
10 inches long, with a single basal leaf of the parent stem, 
about 13 in diameter, on a short petiole only } of an inch ; the 
axils of the floriferous branch exhibit leaflets of similar form, 
the lower ones being half an inch diameter and expanded, di- 
minishing upwards to the size of 2 lines; there are generally 
3 capillary racemules about 1 inch long; the sepals are pilose 
outside, the petals quite glabrous.—Is it the female of C. Vo- 
à ?—but the shape of its leaves does not accord with the suppo- 
sition, 
The other Tropical W. African species of Cissampelos are C. 
Owariensis, Beauy., from Cape Coast and Oware, C. mucronata, 
A. Rich., extending across from Senegambia to Abyssinia and 
the Island of Bourbon, and three unpublished species, of which 
two from Congo, are in the British Museum, and one from 
egambia in the Hookerian herbarium. 
| The Cocculus Cebatha, DC., (which includes C. Lecba, epiba- 
terium and ellipticus, DC.), mentioned under the first of these 
names above, (Spicil. Gorgon, p. 97), extending from Senegambia, 
and Cape Verd, to Egypt, Abyssinia and Arabia; and Tinospora 
Bakis, Miers, or Cocculus Bakis, A. Rich., found also both in Se- 
negambia and Abyssinia and a new species of my genus Holopeira, 
(founded on Cocculus villosa, DC., and its allies), complete the 
list of Tropical W. African Menispermacee, (J. Miers.) 
V. NyMpH#ACEz. 
l. Nymphæa cærulea, Savigny ; DC. Prodr. 1. p. 114.—Sene- 
gambia, Perrottet ; Cape Coast, Don. 
