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Cissampelos.| § MENISPERMACEX (Harv.) 11 
ing 4~12 anther-lobes, which open horizonally and outwards. Female ; 
one, anterior. Petal one (or two-confluent) in front of the sepal, 
half clasping the ovary. Ovary single, one-ovuled, style trifid. Drupe 
kidney-shaped ; nut compressed and wrinkled at edges. DC. Prod. 1. 
p. 100. 
Suberect or twining, slender, shrubby plants. Leaves simple petiolate, very 
entire, minutely reticulate, ovate or reniform or cordate, often peltate. Male 
flowers in axillary cymes ; females (on separate roots) racemose, densely tufted in 
the axils of leafy bracts. Natives of the tropics of both hemispheres ; a few strag- 
gling into the warmer parts of the temperate zone. Name from xiocos, the ivy, and 
aumedos, the vine ; aptly expressing the aspect of these plants. 
1. C. Pareira ae Sp. 1473 ;) voluble, pubescent or densely tomen- 
tose ; leaves renitorm or cordate, mucronulate, pubescent ; male cymes 
pedunculate, much branched ; racemes of female flowers elongated, 
with large, leafy, cordate bracts ; drupes hispid. DC. Prod. 1. p. 100. 
Hook, and Thoms! Fl. Ind.1. p. 198. C. apiculata, Hochst! Walp.5. p. 17. 
Has. Port Natal, Krauss (232)! Gueinzivs/ (Herb. Hook., T.C.D., Sond.) 
Very variable in the amount of its pubescence, &c. The Natal specimens examined 
have cordate-reniform leaves, pubescent on the upper and densely velvetty on the 
lower surface, The number of anther lobes varies in the same cyme from 4-8. The 
corolla is 4 toothed. The sepals hairy, obovate, with inflexed points. 
2. C. torulosa (E. Mey ! in Pl. Drege ;) voluble, subglabrous ; leaves 
broadly reniform, pointless, glabrous or sparsely pubescent, pale under- 
neath and conspicuously reticulated; male cymes pedunculate, few 
flowered, sepals nearly glabrous ; racemes of female flowers elongate, 
with large, leafy, reniform bracts ; drupes pedicellate, glabrous, tuber- 
culated, Menispermum capense, Thunb. Cap. p. 402. LE. & Z! No. 18. 
Has. Eastern Districts. Caffirland to Port Natal, 2. & Z/ Drege! Gueinzius/ 
(Herb. 'T.C.D., Hook., Sond.) 
A slender, distantly branched, vinelike climber, either quite glabrous or thinly 
sprinkled, with close pressed hairs, especially on the lower of the leaves. 
Petioles 2-3 inches long. Inflorescence of both kinds supra-axillary, with a gland — 
below the base of the peduncle. ae 
8. C. Capensis (Thunb. Prod. p. 110) ; shrubby, densely branched, 
partly voluble ; ire petioled, ovate or roundish, obtuse or subacute, 
glabrous or pubescent ; male cymes much shorter than the leaves ; 
umbels of female flowers axillary, sessile ; drupes glabrous. Thunb. Cap. 
p.5o1. E.d& Z.! No. 16. Drege. 7591, 7592, 7593- DC. Prod. 1. 
p. 102. C. fruticosa, Thunb.l.c.p. 500. H.& Z.!No.17. C. humilis, 
Poir, DC. Le. 
Var. 8, pulverulenta ; leaves pubescent on both sides. 
Has. Frequent throughout the colony, in stony and bushy places (Herb. T.C.D.) 
A small, erect or spreading, much and closely branched shrub ; the er . 
trailing or twining round other shrubs. Young twigs downy. Leaves 4-} inch long, 
on slender, downy petioles, Flowers very minute, densely woolly, crowded in the — 
axils of the leaves.—Colonial name, Davidjés: the roots are emetic and purgative; 
the leaves poisonous to cattle (Pappe). 
| IML ANTIZOMA, Miers 
“ Flowers dicecious. Males : Sepals 4, obovate-wedge-form, 
