aot TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA., Cissus. 
ed, oval, coloured.—Cymes leaf-opposed, first divisions trichoto- 
 mous.— Flowers’small, dull potgise ‘Taste of the leaves very acrid, 
and continuing long. 
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5. C. quadrangularis, Willd. Spec: i. p. 657. 
Perenni: i, scandent, jointed, four-winged. - Leaves reniform-cor- 
date, serrate. Berries sperical, one-seeded. d 
Benz. Harjora. 
Fv*is quadrangularis, Rumph. Amb. v. p. 83. t. 44. 44. 
This plant is one of the most common over every part of India ; 
blossoms during the rains ; and ripens its seed in the cool season. 
Root fibrous.— Stem and branches perennial, scandent, and often of 
very great length, smooth, succulent, jointed, contracted at the joints, 
four-winged, wings large, and sharp, young parts succulent, tender, 
and very smooth." These are very generally eaten by the natives in 
their curries.— Leaves alternate, one at each joint, short-petioled, 
reniform, cordate, serrulate-dentate, smooth on both sides, an inch 
‘or an inch and a half each way.— Stipules lunulate, entire. — Tendrils 
solitary, simple, leaf-opposed. —Umbels solitary, opposite to the 
Jeaves, occupying the place on which the tendril would otherwise grow, 
compound. Umbellets generally three or four, sub- globular.—Inco- 
lucre and involucels scarcely any.—Germ ovate, immersed in the 
nectary, two-celled, with two ovula in each, attached to the bottom 
of the partition; style short. Stigma simple.— Berry round, size of 
a small pea, smooth, red, succulent, one-celled —— Seed solitary, 
obovate, covered with a double, dark brown, spongy integument. 
— Perisperm conform to the seed, a double, dark-coloured fissure runs 
down the middle — Embryo. small, erect, lodged on one side of the 
bottom of the double’ fissure just mentioned. Cayos with 
minute points. Radicle re, iplertor. 
6. C. pentagona, R. 
^ "Young shoots lucid, with five rounded angles and grooved 
‘Leaves cordate, rarely sub-lobate, serrulate, acuminate, smooth 
— Anextensive perennial clumber, anative of the forests of Chittagong: 
ides. 
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