at TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA* - Cissuss 
. Stem. and large branches ligneous, climbing over trees to a con- 
siderable extent, young shoots round, a little downy and slightly fur- 
rowed.— Leaves alternate, round-cordate, and often obliquely so,. 
acuminate, bristle-serrate, the largest sometimes slightly. repand ;. 
pretty smooth above, but downy underneath, particularly the veins,. 
from two to six inches long, one-fourth less in breadth.— Peduncles. 
half the length of the leaves, downy.—Stipules nearly oval, adnate,- 
elevated, and of a deeper green in the middle ; margins scariose, and. 
brown.—Tendrils opposite to the leaves where there is no cyme.— 
Cymes opposite to the leaves, on villous peduncles, as long as the. 
petioles, very ramous, flat.—Flowers. numerous, staall, drooping. 
The germ has two cells, in each of which are two seeds attached: 
from their lower end to the partition at the bottom. of the cell.— 
Berry succulent, size of a pea, when ripe black, and smooth, gene- 
rally one-celled.—Seed for the most part solitary, obovate, lower 
end pointed.— Integumenis two, exterior naritordn, and rugose; inner 
a very thin, white membrane, which adheres firmly to the perisperm. 
— Perisperm conform to the seed, dull white, cartilaginous, divided 
by two fissures into tbree, nearly equal parts.— Embryo scarcely 
"half the length of the perisperm. — Cotyledons reniform. Radicle: 
oblong, inferior. : 
2, C. vitiginea, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. Willd. i. 655. 
Leaves cordate-serrate. Cymes decompound. — Berries one or 
two-seeded. 
Hind. and Beng. Guali-lata. 
Teling. Maratta-tiga. 
This species is a native of forests, mountains, and way sides. in- 
uncultivated places. . e 
Trunk woolly, branchy, climbing over trees and shrubs to a great 
extent. Tendril opposite to the leaves, two-cleft.— Leaves alternate, 
petioled, cordate, serrate, or dentate, pretty smooth on both sides, 
from four to six inches long, and from three to four broad.—Stipules 
cordate.—Cymes peduncled, leaf-opposed, more than compound.— 
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