Cissus, _ TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 413 
Bengal.’ In the Botanic garden it blossoms in: pence 
March, ai 
Trunk scandent, stout, Ligation, in six vous old plait! as 
thiek as a man’s wrist, flattened, and grooved on the two flat 
sides, Bark dark brown, rough or deeply cracked. Branches 
and branchlets climbing, or pendulous when not supported; 
young parts round, green and generally smooth ; extent of 
the whole plant several fathoms. Tendri/s leaf-opposed, ge- 
nerally undivided, Leaves alternate, petioled, pedate. Leaf- 
lets generally five, lanceolar, recurvate, most remotely and 
sharply serrulate, long, taper, acute-pointed, both sides po- 
lished ; texture rather fleshy, length from three to six inches, — 
and from one to'two broad, — Petioles and petiolets clothed 
with short, reddish hairs. Stipules large, of a narrow conie 
_ shape. Cymes sub-axillary, or close by the side of the base 
of the petioles, shorter than the petioles, or when most luxu- 
riant much shorter than the leaves, the ultimate divisions each 
supporting a small globular umbellet, of small pale yellow 
flowers. | Bractes round the base of the peduncles, cordate, 
Mate, Calyx scarcely any. Coro] and stamina as in the 
genus. Pistil none, an umbilicate, yellow, round, convex 
— oe its — 
uu. C. spider, Linn, sp. pl. ed. Willd. i. 659, 
_ Perennial, scandent. Tendrils simple, or two-cleft. Lebwes 
pedate ; leaflets broad-lanceolate, serrate. Berries four-seed- 
ved. | 
«Dalat Tjon-Vall Rheed, Mal, vii. p. 19. t. 10. : 
aon se Retz, Qhei ws We 3. 2A TAF i 
This j is another very extensively Heiling | species, as in- 
deed they all are Ans a a tal Flower: 
ing time the rainy season. - 
_ Stems woody, climbing over recs; &e. young carts cover- 
ed with soft down. Tendrils leaf-oppoosed, simple or two- 
cleft. Leaves. alternate, petioled, pedate, Leaflets oblong, 
