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surrounded with a glandulous disk. Berry 2- 
celled, 2 to 4-seeded. (Stamina sometimes 4.) 
Sarmentose or twining shrubs similar to the preceding, 
- but brittle or soluble at the joints; leaves simple, ternate, 
quinate, or pinnate; flowers in dior trichotomous, com- 
pound racemes, ofien corymbose. ae 
Species. 1. C. Ampelopis. 2. hederacea. Articulations 
and petioles tumid; racemes cymose, flowers by 2’s or 3’s, 
petals 5, cucullate, unconnected; stamina 5, seated upon 
the petals, anthers horizontal, connected to the subulate 
filaments about the middle; glandular disk none. Germ 
conic, 4-seeded. Style 0. Stigma minute, glandular. Can 
_ this be referrible to the genus Cissus? 3. bipinnata. (C. 
= 
. Persoon.) » 
_ ‘The gefus Cissus, with the exception of the above, is 
entirely tropical; there are 10 species in Peru and the 
West Indies, 11 in India and the neighbouring islands, } 
in Arabia Felix, and another commop to India and Arabia, 
2 at the Cape cf Good Hope, and 2 in Japan, and 1 ac- 
cording to Lamark in the Levant. 
No species of this genus appears to afford edible fruit, 
notwithstanding its near affinity to Vitis. 1 have never- 
theless been informed that the fruit of the C. d/pennata 
becomes agreeable when perfectly matured; to my taste 
they are always nauseous like the berries of the genus 
221. ITEA. L. : 
Calix small, 5-cleft. Petals 5, linear, reflexly 
spreading, inserted upon the calix. Stigma capi- 
tate, 2-lobed. Capsule 2-celled, 2-valved many- 
seeded; the seeds attached to the inflected mar- 
gins of the valves. 
__ A shrub with alternate, minutely bistipulated leaves; 
spikes solitary, terminal; bractes deciduous. (Flowers 
_ ~ white and odorous.) 
, SPecres. 1.7. virginica. Like the following grow- 
ing pie apa on the margins of swamps and stagnating 
rivulets. 
The only species, and peculiar to North America. 
2992. CYRILLA. L. 
Calix minute, subturbinate, s-parted. Pe- 
tals 5, stellately spreading. Stigmas 2, (rarely 
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