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4, Cissampelos pareira, Lamarck, Ill. t. 830. 
Cissampelos canescens, Miq. 
Cissampelos acuminata, Benth. 
SovtH Mexico, Vera Cruz (Galeotti, 4623), Cordova (Bourgeau, 2167), in hedges near 
Tanetze (Hartweg, 445); Nicaragua (Tate, 7, 8, 9, and 10); Costa Rica (Zndres, 190) ; 
Panama, Tolé (Seemann, 313). Hb. Kew. 
Widely dispersed in nearly all tropical countries. 
5. Cissampelos tomentosa, DC. Syst. i. p. 535. 
SoutH Mexico, Campeche. 
Tribe PACHYGONEZ. 
4, HYPERBANA. 
Hyperbena, Miers, in Ann. Nat. Hist. ser 2, vii. p. 44. 
Climbing shrubs. Three or four species, growing in Tropical America. 
1. Hyperbena mexicana, Miers, in Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 2, vii. p. 44. 
SoutH Mexico (Jurgensen, 91). Ub. K. 
Grisebach refers this to Cocculus domingensis, DC. 
[Agdestis clematidea, Moc. et Sessé in DC. Syst. i. p. 543; Calques des Dess. Fl. 
Mex. 12 and ili. a; is a Phytolaccacea. | 
Order VI. BERBERIDE. 
Berberidee, Benth. et Hook. Gen. Plant. i. p. 40. 
Herbs, under-shrubs, or shrubs, comprising twenty genera and perhaps 100 species, 
chiefly in the temperate regions of the northern hemisphere, including the mountains of 
tropical countries, and in the southern parts of South America. Apparently quite absent 
from South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand. 
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Tribe BERBEREZL. 
1. BERBERIS. 
Berberis, Linn. Gen. Plant. n. 442; Benth. et Hook. Gen. Plant. i. p. 43 (Mahonia, Nutt.). 
Shrubs. Nearly 100 forms have been described as species; but Bentham and 
Hooker estimate the number of distinct species at fifty, whereof fifteen are Asiatic, 
one of these extending to Europe and North America, and another to the mountains 
of Eastern Tropical Africa; the remainder chiefly in mountainous regions of America, 
from Oregon to Fuegia. 
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