Cissus. TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA, A05 
rather thick, smooth, tough, and brown... Perisperm conform 
to the seed... Embryo sub-cylindric, erect, Cotyledon long, © 
linear, Radicle infers one-fourth the satuciad of the eae: 
don, 
Obs. From the ain a sonciaaaenie drink :i is ccm 
' and often prescribed by our medical gentlemen in India, 
where emollients are wanted, They are also used by the 
native practitioners in medicine, and are to be met with for 
sale in the bazars of India under the Persian name Uspagool, 
CISSUS. Schreb. gen. N. 192. 
Calyx four-toothed, Cvrol four-petalled. Germ two-cell- 
‘ed; ovula two, erect. Berry superior, from one to four-seeded. 
Embryo erect, in the base of an ample perpen 
1. C. adnata. R, ‘ 
_ Leaves round-cordate, bristle serrate, sence Stipules 
actin adnate, with gibbous centre, and scariose margins, 
Coe flat, flowers drooping. 
_. Anative of the country about Dacca, from a the late 
: ‘Colonel Peter Murray sent it to the Botanic garden, where it 
thrives well, blossoms in May and June, aud ripens its fruit 
_ in September, 
Siem and. large branches ligueous, climbing over pesos to 
a. considerable extent, young shoots round, a little downy 
and slightly furrowed, Leaves alternate, round-cordate, and 
often obliquely so, acuminate, bristle-serrate, the largest some- 
‘times slightly repand ; pretty smooth above, but downy un- 
derneath,. particularly the veins, from two to six inches long, 
one-fourth less in breadth, _ Peduncles half the length, of the 
eaves, 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, Be 
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