Cissus. TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. | ait 
short-peduncled, axillary. Bractes small, falling: Flowers 
small, green. Calyx small. Corol four or five-petalled, ge- 
nerally four. Nectary scarcely any. Stamens none, or at 
most a small seemingly sterile one. Germ superior, globose, 
Style none. Stigma four, or five-lobed, ii to tlie 
— in the corol, I have not seen the ripe fruit, 
ae ror Eiloamd A sent 
“Tender shoots tinodhlent pisliched: Leaves digitate ; ‘louie 
petioiiets; oblong, acute, remotely serrate, smooth, 
Beng. Dhemna, which is also the name of a long serpent. . 
. Found amongst the mountains of the coast of Coromandel, 
as well as.in the forests of Bengal. Flowering time the has 
season, baal 
Siem very long, running up and over the highést't trees, a 
little compressed, and until many years old smooth, polished, 
succulent, deep green, Branches few or none, until the plant 
arrives at a great height, and is several years ofage. Leaves 
alternate, petioled, digitate. Leaflets five, petioled, oblong, — 
the lower pair obliquely so, serrate, smooth on both sides, from — 
two to six inches long, and from one to three broad. Petioles 
round, smooth, from four to five inches long. Petiole’s chan- 
nelled, Stipule cordate, small, sub-ad joined, Tendrils leaf- 
opposed, simple. Cymes trichotomous, and dichotomous; the 
last divisions short, and ending in small umbellets, Bractes 
cordate, permanent. Calyx four-toothed. Corol, petals four, 
inserted in a belt which surrounds the body of the germ, 
Nectary a four-lobed, coloured elevation between the stamina 
and the insertion of the style. Filaments four, inserted oppo- 
site to, and just within the petals. Anthers incumbent. Germ 
om: Style ent. Stigma simple, Berry the size of a cherry, 
5 turbinate, asi. oo mee, 
12; C.  devtedtiaa, R. , | 
“Scandent, ‘perennial. Leaves quinate ; leaflets oblong, — 
