430 TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Cissus. 
12..C. auriculata, R. 
- Scandent, perennial. Leaves quinate ; leaflets oblong, acute, ob- 
tusely serrate, smooth above, villous underneath. Stipules Par iis de 
ed. Berries round, smooth, one-seeded. 
A native of Mysore, from thence sent to the Botanic Garden in 
1802, by Mr. B. Heyne, where it flowers and ripens its fruit through _ 
the whole year. 
Stem, in five years old plants, as thick as a man's wrist, and of great 
length, even up to the tops of high trees. Bark spungy, and deeply 
cracked, young shoots succulent, round, and villous. —Leaves altere 
nate, remote, long-petioled, quinate. Leaflets petioled, oblong-ob- 
ovate, or rhombic, acute, serrate, smooth and shining above, villous 
underneath ; the superior from two to three inches long, and two- 
thirds of that in breadth, the exterior much larger.— P'etiofes nearly 
as long as the leaflets, round, and villous.— Stipules ear-shaped, re- 
curved.— Tendrils leaf-opposed, two or three-cleft.—Cymes axillary, 
or terminal; dichotomous or trichotomous, these again sev eval 
times divided —Germ conical, containing four seeds in one cell, at- 
- tached to its bottom.— Berry, the size, shape, and appearance of a red 
cherry, one-seeded.— Seed obliquely obovate, a little compressed, 
somewhat pointed at the base, and there attached to the bottom of the _ 
cell. — Integument single, nuciform, rugose, covered with the green 
pulp of the berry, which adheres to it, and may, when dry, be consi- 
dered a second integument.— Perisperm conform to the seed, carti- 
laginous, grey; from the inner edge two-fissures penetrate deeply,” 
and divide it nearly info three portions.— Embryo erect, white, lodg- 
ed in the base of the perisperm.— Cotyledons two ; pedicelled, reni- 
form. Plumula minute. Radicle oblong, inferior, a little curved, 
with the apex to the umbilicus, ‘ 
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13. C. lanceolaria, R. iie 
Dioicous. Leaves pedate-quinate ; leaflets lanceolar, smooth, re- 
motely serrulate. Stipules conically lanceolate. Cymes the length 
of the petioles. 
Vallia-Tsjori-Valli, Rheed. Mal. vii, p. 15. €. 8. 
