252 AMPELIDEZ (Harv.) | [Cissus. 
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Strongly woody, climbing or trailing. Leaves larger and leaflets broader and 
more toothed than in the allied species, pale underneath, and in the young leaves 
thinly appressed-puberulent, with strongly marked nerves. Cirrhisimple. Medial 
leaflets 1-2 inches long, 1 inch broad, often flabelliform. Fruits glabrous. Petals 
mostly 5. Drege’s 7522, in Hb. Sond, seems to be a sub-entire leaved variety of 
this species. Ta 
11. C. rhomboidea (E. Mey.!); young shoots and opening leaves 
fulvyo-villous, otherwise nearly glabrous ; leaves petiolate, ternate ; 
leaflets petiolulate, netted beneath, the medial rhomboid, cuneate at 
base, acute, paucidentate above the middle, with sharp, small teeth, the 
lateral obliquely ovate, acute and few-toothed ; cymes few-flowered, on 
short hairy peduncles ; tendrils simple. ; 
Sore Near Port Natal, Drege! Howison’s Poort, H.Hutton/ (Herb. T.C.D., 
wond.). 
‘Alized to C. cuneifolia, but the leaflets are more acute, the medial one acuminate, 
and the serratures cilii-form, more than tooth-like. , 
Group 3. Dicrtata. Leaves digitate, soft and membranous, the leaf- 
lets sharply serrate. Stipules membranous, deciduous. (Sp. 12-15). 
12, C. cirrhosa(Pers. Ench. 1. p. 142); glabrescent or hispid or pilose, 
especially on the young parts; stems weak and straggling ; leaves on 
longish petioles, quinate or ternate ; leaflets sub-sessile, cuneate at 
base, obovate, acute, sharply serrate, thin, penni-nerved, glabrous or 
hispidulous on the nerves and veins ; cymes on long peduncles, diva- 
ricately much-branched ; style filiform ; berries tomentose. DC. Prod. 
1. p. 631. Cissus quinata, Ait., DC. lc. Vitis cirrhosa, Thunb. Ft. 
Cap. p. 212. EB. & Z..! 429. Zey.! 2030. Drege! 7518. 
Var. 8, glabra; stems, leaves and inflorescence nearly glabrous. 
Drege, 7557) : 
Has. In woods and by river banks, among bushes. Uitenhage and Albany, fre- 
quent. £.g§Z.! &c, (Herb. T.C.D., Hook., Sond.) 
A fragile climber, varying much in its pubescence, which is sometimes glandular. 
_ Leaflets somewhat succulent, usually 5, but sometimes 3 or 7. Var. 8. is some- 
times quite glabrous ; but intermediately pubescent states occur. 
Plant, “as a remedy for tooth-ache. The root is 
”  W. Saund. in litt. a 
wv.) 5 pubescent ; stems weak, striate, minutely 
a2 pubescent or glandular ; Ieaves on long petioles, quinate, leaflets petio- 
