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Cissus. | AMPELIDEZ& (Harv.) 253 
late, broadly lanceolate, acute or acuminate, serrate, green and glabrous 
above, densely tomentose and pale beneath, penni-nerved ; cymes pedun- 
culate, diffuse, with patent tomentose branches, style filiform. C. qui- 
nata, b., Drege ! . ie 
Has. Omsamwubo, Drege! Port Natal, Gueinzius / (Herb. T.C.D , Hook, Sond.) 
Allied to C. cirrhosa, but with more distinctly petiolulate, lanceolate leaflets, less 
strongly toothed (the teeth shallow and broad, but mucronate) and densely albo- 
tomentose underneath. 
15? C. Sandersoni (Harv.); the weak succulent stems and the long 
petioles tomentose ; leaves 5—7-foliolate ; leaflets sub-sessile, broadly obo- 
vato-trapeziform, acute, doubly inciso-serrate, scaberulous on both sides, 
thin, penni-nerved, fringed with minute, gland-tipped hairs ; cymes ? 
Has. Transvaal, Natal, Mr. Sanderson! (Herb. Hook.) : 
Very unlike the other Cape species of this section, and remarkable for its large, 
membranous, strongly serrate and minutely glandular leaflets. Perfect specimens 
are, however, required to establish the species fully. 
Group 5, Pepatm. Leaves pedate ; the lateral segments bi-tri-foliolate. 
(Sp. 16.) 
16. C. bigemina (Harv.) ; stems slender, herbaceous, striate, glabrous ; 
leaves on long petioles, pedate, 5-foliolate, the petiole trifid, the medial 
branch unifoliolate, the lateral forked and bearing twin leaflets ; leafiets 
all petiolate, ovate or lanceolate, acuminate, coarsely toothed, thin and 
sub-glabrous, penni-nerved ; cymes pedunculate, few-flowered, not much 
branched, nearly glabrous ; style very short. 
Has. Port Natal, Gueinzius. (Herb. Hook.). 
A slender, trailing and climbing plant, differing from all the other known Cape 
species by the composition of its leaves, which, though of 5 leaflets, are formed on 
a ternate plan ; the two lateral petiolules forking and bearing two leaflets, smaller 
and more ovate than the terminal or central one. The nerves and veins are hispidu- 
lous, and a few bristles are sprinkled over the leaflets which are otherwise glabrous. 
Group 6. Prnnata. Leaves pinnate or bi-pinnate, (Sp. 17). 
17. C. orientalis (Lam. ill. t. 81. f. 2.); glabrous ; stems half herba- 
ceous, weak, striate ; leaves bi-tri-pinnate, leaflets stalked, ovate, acute, 
sharply serrate ; stipules ovate, reflexed ; cymes on long peduncles, di- 
tri-chotomous and much-branched, corymbose ; pedicels much longer 
than the flowers ; styles filiform. C. glabra, E. Mey.! in Hb. Drege. 
Has. Between Omtata and Omsamwubo, 1000-2000f. Drege! Macalisberg, 
Buirke and Zeyher! Feb. (Herb. T.C.D., Hook., Sond.). 
A straggling climber. Leaves very compound, twice or thrice pinnate, the pin- 
nules trifoliolate. Leaflets 1 inch long, sharply and deeply serrate ; the teeth mu- 
cronate. Cymes very lax, many-flowered, widely ing and panicled. I ven- 
ture to refer the S. African specimens to C. orientalis, of which, however, I have 
only seen imperfect specimens. If not absolutely indentical, ours is a very closel: 
allied plant. 
Drege’s Cissi, No. 9814 and 7527, having (in Hb. Sond. !) neither flowers nor 
fruit, cannot be satisfactorily determined. s 
