Cissus. TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA; Am 
7. C. angustifolia, R 
Dioicous. ^ Leaves ternate ; leaflets lanceolate, serrate, smooth. 
Stipules ovate, acute. Cymes shorter than the petioles. Berries 
spherical, one or two-seeded. 
A delicate, scandent, perennial species, a native of Sumatra. 
, Flowers i in February ; seeds ripen in November. 
Stem scandent, slender, flat like a piece of tape.— Tendrils sim- 
ple. — Leaves ternate. Leaflets petiolate, lanceolate, remotely ser- 
rate, acuminate, smooth on both sides, from three to six inches long, 
: ` and from one to one and a half broad. — Petioles shorter than the 
leaflets, channelled, smooth.— S/ipules triangularly ovate, acute, 
smooth.—Cymes axillary, solitary, nearly round, small, aud shorter 
than the petioles.— Flowers small, greenish yellow, male on one piant 
— and female on another. ` 
—— Marrz.—Calyr, Corol and Stamina as in the genus.— Pistil no 
other than a small abortive roundish body on the centre of a four- 
lobed. gland. 
- FguALE.-—Calyr and Corol as in the fhale.—Germ round, two- 
Sellel, with two seeds in each. Style none —Stigma large, obscure- 
ly four-lobed, and somewhat lacerated.— Berries spherical, smooth, 
size of a pea, white, one or two- seeded, when cut or bruised very 
. fetid.— Perisperm conform to the seed.— Embryo lodged inthe lower . 
half of the perisperm. as aa nearly round. Radicle cylindric, 
inferior. 
8. C. carnosa, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. Willd. i. 658. 
-~ Stem flattened, perennial. Leaves petioled, ternate ; leaflets oval, 
serrate. Berries four-seeded.. . 
Tsjori-Valli, Rheed. Mal. vii. p. 17. t. 9. SIR 
Folium Causonis, Rumph. Amb. x v. p. 450. t. 166. * 2. 
Teling. Kanapa-tiga. 
ds common in hedges and forests. Flowering time the pef sea- 
son. a 
Stem perennial, flat like a piece of tape, climbing to an- — tof 
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