412 TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Cissus, 
acute, obtusely serrate, smooth above, villous underneath, 
Stipules ear-shaped. Berries round, smooth, one-seeded, 
Anative of Mysore, from thence sent to the Botanic garden 
in 1802, by Mr. B. Heyne, where it flowers and ripens its wen 
through the whole year. whee 
Stem, in five years old plants, as thick as a man’s situa 
of great length, even up to the tops of high trees. Bark 
spongy, and deeply cracked ; young shoots succulent, round, 
and villous. Leaves alternate, remote, long-petioled, quinate. 
Leaflets petioled, oblong-obovate, or rhombic, acute, serrate, 
smooth and shining above, villous underneath; the superior 
from two to three inches long, two-thirds of that in breadth, 
the exterior much larger. Petioles nearly as long as the 
leaflets, round, and villous. Stipules ear-shaped, recurved. 
Tendrils leaf-opposed, two or three-cleft. Cymes axillary, or 
terminal ; dichotomous or trichotomous, these again several 
times divided. Germ conical, containing four seeds im one 
cell, attached to its bottom. Berry, the size, shape, and ap- 
pearance of a red cherry, one-seeded, Seed obliquely obo- 
vate, 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 considered a se- 
cond integument, Perisperm conform to the seed, cartila- 
ginous, gray ; from the inner edge two fissures penetrate deep- 
ly, and divide it nearly into three portions, Embryo erect, 
white, lodged in the base of the perisperm. Cotyledons two; 
pedicelled, reniform. Plumula minute, Radicle oblong, in- 
ferior, a little curved, with the apex to the umbilicus, 
13. C. lanceolaria. R. 
- Divicous. Leaves pedate-quinate ; i caeeciegeinaie seiaale 
“oonsseg serrulate. _ Stipules — temerity: sei 
