840 DIOECIA MONADELPHIA, Cissampelos. 
7. J. chinensis, R. 
Leaves scattered, approximate, linear-lanceolar, rather ob- 
tuse. Male aments cylindric. Anthers two-lobed. 
A native of China, in the Botanic garden the male plant 
flowersin February. : 
CISSAMPELOS. Schreb. gen. N. 1555. 
Mate, Calyx from four to six-leaved. Corol none, or 
three-petalled. Anthers on the margin of the peltate apex 
of single filaments, Femate. Calyx and corol various. 
Germ superior, one-celled, one-seeded ; attachment lateral. 
Berries oblique, containing one rugose, doubled seed, Em- 
id inverse, uncinate, and furnished with a perisperm. 
A. C. glabra, R. 
Perennial, twining, every part smooth: ienilinaniilce cor- 
date, peltate, scarcely repand; umbels axillary, compound ; 
male umbellets cymose, 
Peer-gruj is the vernacular name in Silhet, where it is 
indigenous, and the root, which is very acrid, is used in me- 
dicine by the natives, Flowering time the month of May, : 
and the seed ripens in November. 
Root tuberous, perennial, of various shapes like other i ir- 
regular tubers, but tending most to the roundish form, and. 
often as large as a man’s head, smooth and whitish, | Stems 
and branches twining to an extent of some fathoms, while 
young smooth, of a glossy green; when old the bark is ash- 
coloured. Leaves long-petioled, profoundly peltate, roundish 
or reniform-cordate, smooth, with the margins often slightly 
repand, and the length and breadth nearly equal, viz. from 
two tosix inches. Petio/es longer than the leaves, round and 
smooth, Mare. Umbels axillary, solitary, or in pairs, com- 
pound, their. peduncles rather shorter than the petioles. Um- 
bellets single, long-pedicelled, cymose, and in this it differs 
widely from those of C, hexandra, where they are globular 
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