Cissus.] AMPELIDE® (Kunth.) 249 
1. V. hispida (E. & Z.! 428); leaves deeply cordate at base, with 
5 short, deltoid-acuminate, cuspidate lobes, sharply toothed and hispid 
on both surfaces ; the middle lobe longest. 
Has. In woods. Oliphantshoek, near mouth of Boschesman’s River, Uitenhage, 
E.&Z.1 (Herb. Sond. ) 
This species requires confirmation. I have only seen a fragment, consisting of 
three leaves on a broken portion of a branch, without flower or fruit. It resem- 
bles V. latifolia, Roxb., but is roughly hairy and more sharply lobed. Perfect spe- 
cimens are desired. 
II. CISSUS, L. 
Calyx cup-shaped, obsoletely 4—5-crenate. Petals 4—5, inserted out- 
side a fleshy, hypogynous disc, concave, hooded at the apex, separate, 
deciduous, Style cylindrical ; stigma capitate or simple. nd. Gen. 
45606. DC. Prod. 1 p. 627. 
Climbing, rarely erect, shrubby or half shrubby plants, found throughout the 
tropics and warmer temperate zones of both hemispheres. Stems tumid at the 
nodes, often fragile, sometimes succulent, leaves simple, or variously compound, 
often pellucid dotted. Flowers minute, greenish, in clusters or panicles, opposite 
the leaves. Tendrils simple or branched. Name xioaos, the Greek name for the 
vine. 
Group 1. Srwpiiciroria. Leaves simple, entire or lobed. Stepules 
membranaceous, deciduous. (Sp. 1-3). 
1. C. tetragona (Harv.); puberulent ; stems succulent, green, sharply 
quadrangular, marginate ; leaves petiolate, cordate at base, angularly 
sit tells bed. the lobes short, ovate, distantly denticulate, minutely pu- 
beralent on both sides ; flowers ? 
Has. Near Port Natal, Mr. R. W. Plant. ee y. cult. in Hort. Wilson Saunders ). 
Stems herbaceous, ree ented about +5 inch square, green, minutely downy, peg ie 
4-angled, with a slightly elevated, febth i Gieuersahcied marginal line on 
angles, and a more or less evident rote groove ; the internodes 4-8 inc! 
long. Petioles :—-11 inch long, pubescent, the stipules small, ovate, soon Seurine: 
Leaves 3-5-nerved at base, carnose, pale green, 2-3 inches long and broad ; the 
lower ones 3-lobed, the lateral lobes shallow and blunt, the middle longest and ovate ; 
upper leaves somewhat triangular-hastate, with a tendency to be angularly-lobed, 
acute or obtuse ; the margin with very minute denticulations, 2-3 lines asunder. _ 
Flowers not seen. Described from a living plant in the rich collection of W. Wilson _ 
Saunders, Esq. It is allied to Lares dy and others with similar habit, 
but appears to be distinct. ee 
2. C. fra s(E. Mey! eet Drregey: labo; stems half-her- 
baceous, weak, striate ; leaves on long petioles, angularly cordate acu- 
minate, mucronulate, distantly ciliato-denticulate, three-nerved at the’ 
base, and penni-nerved, thin and membranous ; inflorescence loosely — 
panicled, the lateral branches cymoid, fow-flowered - ; pedicels much 
longer than the flowers. 
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Has. In woods on the Omblas Hills, Natal, Drege/ Mar.-Apr. (Herb. Hook., =e se 
gee Sond.). oe 
A straggling climber. Leaves green, thin, quite glabrous ; the lateral veins ae, 
wikgsemiapos Fruit fleshy. ald Ory 2, 
in several 
3. C. Capensis (Willd. Sp. 1. p. 65 5); young twigs and leaves 
