Cissus. TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA+ P. 
Flowers small, ied — Germ superior, half immersed in the four-sid. 
ed, fleshy nectary.— Berry small, black, one or two seeded. 
3. C. glauca, R. - i 
- Leaves cordate, bristle-serrate, smooth. Stipules broad-sulcate.. 
Cymes decompound. Berries one-seeded. " 
Schunambu Valli, Rheed. Mal. vii. p. 21. f. YT. 
"This species is still larger than the last, and a native of the same. 
or similar places ; the shoots, the tendrils, petioles and peduncles. 
. are all quite smooth and somewhat glaucous, which does not admit 
_ of my considering it to be either repanda, or latifolia. 
Tendrils leaf-opposed, undivided.—Leaves alternate, petioled, 
broad-cordate, more or less acuminate, sometimes when large slight- 
ly lobed, bristle- serrate, smooth, from four to eight inches each way.. 
Stipules broad-fulcate, apex rounded, caducous.— Cymes with from. 
three to five primary branches ; ultimate divisions umbelliferous.— | 
Berry nearly round, size of a pea, smooth, succulent, purple, rarely, 
more than one-seeded —Seed obovate: Integument a double mem-. 
brane, with a spungy silver-coloured: substance between.— Peris- 
` perm and embryo as in the genus. 
4. C. cordata, R.* 
Shrubby, scandent, smooth. Leaves cordate, slightly and remote-. 
ly bristle-serrulate. Cymes compound, leaf-opposed.. 
| Meriam-Pulli, Rheed. Mal. vii. p. 91. t. 48. 
Funis crepitans major, Rumph. Amb. v. p. 446. t. 164. f 1. 
A native of Amboyna, from thence introduced into the Botanic. 
Garden, i in 1796—7. Flowering time in Bengal, ‘the rainy season- 
Stem and branches long, slender, climbing. over bushes to a con. 
siderable extent. Bark smooth; on the young parts polished and ' 
purplish. — Leaves alternate, petioled, cordate, remotely and slightly 
serrulate, serratures acute, both sides smooth, length from four to six 
inches,— Tendrils leaf-opposed, simple, coloured. —Stipules adjoin 
>C. repens, Lam, Encyel, i, 31; et Poiret in ejusd. Sappl. i, 108.—N. Wy 
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