268 FLORA NIGRITIANA. 
It is allied to the Abyssinian C. mollis, Steud., but the 
leaflets are smaller and more delicate, less pubescent and 
broader; the stipules smaller; panicles much larger, and of a 
different form. All these three species have the four or five 
glands of the dise firmly cohering with the ovarium, which thus 
appears deeply 4-grooved. 
14. Cissus cymosa, Schum. et Thonn. Beskr. p. 82.— Guinea, 
Thonning ; Accra, Vogel. 
Flores clavati. Petala 4, erecta, apice fornicata, cucullata, 
dorso gibboso-incrassata, pubescentia. 
'The predominance of this genus in Western Africa is highly 
indicative of its humid atmosphere and jungly coast. Four 
other species are described as inhabiting the same country : 
C. rufescens, Guill et Perr., of Senegambia (very closely 
allied to C. cesia); C. quadrangularis, Wall. (C. triandrus, 
Schum.), a plant also common to Arabia and the continent of 
India; C. gracilis, Guill. et Perr., and C. bifida, Schum. et 
Thonn. 
l. Leea Guineensis, Don.— Sierra Leone, Cape Palmas, St. 
Thomas, and Fernando Po, Vogel, Don. 
XXXIII. CocnurosPERME:.* 
l. Cochlospermum Planchoni, Hook. fil.; caule subarbore- 
scente, ramis puberulis striatis foliosis, ramulis petiolis foliis- 
que subter subvelutino-tomentosis, foliis late orbiculari-reni- 
formibus profunde cordatis 5-lobis, lobis rotundatis obtusis 
* See Lond. Journ. Bot. 6, p. 294, where Dr. Planchon has, 
with great sagacity, pointed out the affinities of Cochlospermum and 
Amoreuxia, and I perfectly agree with him in their separation from 
Ternstremiacee, although I cannot subscribe to all his speculations on 
the grouping of this and several of the following Orders. Their real 
relative positions appear to me to be far from being, as yet, satisfactorily 
ascertained, I therefore leave them, for the present, nearly in the order in 
which De Candolle had placed them, however convinced I am that 
several of the smaller groups might be advantageously united as tribes 
of larger Orders.—(G. B.) : 
