AC6 TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Cissus. 
drooping. The germ has two cells, in each of which are 
two seeds attached from their lower end to the partition at 
the bottom of the cell. Berry succulent, size of a pea, when 
ripe black, and smooth, generally one-celled. Seed for the 
most part solitary, obovate, lower end pointed. Integuments 
two, exterior nuciform, and rugose ; inner a very thin, white 
membrane, which adheres firmly to the perisperm. Peris- 
perm conform to the seed, dull white, cartilaginous, divided 
by two fissures into three, nearly equal parts. Embryo | 
scarcely half the length of the perisperm. Cotyledons reni- 
form. adicle oblong, inferior. 
" 2. C, vitiginea, Linn, sp. pl. ed. Willd. i. 655. 
 » Leaves cordate-serrate. Cymes intr tens Berries one 
or two-seeded, 
Hind, and Beng, Guali-lata, 
Teling. Maratta-tiga. ‘ | gh tres 
This species is a native of forests, mountains; antl way sides 
in uncultivated places. 
Trunk woolly, branchy, climbing over trees and shrubs to — 
a great extent. Tendril opposite to the leaves, two-cleft. 
Leaves alternate, petioled, cordate, serrate, or dentate, pretty 
smooth on both sides, from four to six inches long, and from 
three to four broad. Stipules cordate, Cymes peduncled, 
leaf-opposed, more than compound, Flowers small, red. 
Germ superior, half immersed in the — die n nec- 
tary. a black, one or ee 
3. c. glauca, R. 7 
Leaves cordate, Bitedte ena smooth. Stipules broad- 
éulleate. Cymes decompound. Berries one-seeded. 
Schunambu Valli. Rheed. Mal. vii. p. 21. t. 11. | 
~ This species is still larger than the last, and a native of 
the same or similar places; the shoots, the seacee, Pt 8 
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