CISSAMPELOS PAREIRA. 
Stamens distinct or monadelphous, equal in number to the 
Petals and opposite to them, or three or four times as 
many. Anthers, innate and consisting of four globose 
lobes. 
Ovary, usually solitary, sometimes two-four. 
Fruit, a drupe, globose-reniform. 
SEED, solitary, uncinate. 
THE SECONDARY CHARACTERS. 
CissamPpELos Diwcious. Maur. Sepals, four in a double series. 
Petals four, united into a cup-shaped corolla, with an entire 
margin. Stamens, united into slender columns, dilated at the 
apex, bearing two two-celled anthers, opening horizontally. 
Cells, placed end to end, and forming a four lobed, four-celled 
annulus round the top of the column. Frmate. Calyx of one 
lateral sepal. Corolla of one petal in front of the sepal. Ovary 
solitary. Stigmas, three. Drupe; obliquely reniform, but com- 
pared, wrinkled round its margin. Seed, solitary, uncinate. 
Embryo long, terete, enclosed in a fleshy albumen. 
Flowers, diecious. Sterne Frowers. Sepals, four in a double series. Petals 
four, united into a cup-shaped corolla. Stamens five. .Anthers connate. FrrtiLe 
Fiowers. Sepal one, rounded. Petal one, placed before and but half the length of 
the sepal, truncated, hypogynous. Fruit, a one-seeded berry. 
THE SPECIFIC CHARACTERS. 
CissampeLos Parema, Leaves, peltate, subcordate, ovate, 
articulate, silky-pubescent beneath, Mane. Sepals four. 
Nectary entire. Filament one. Crest very short. Anthers 
five united in a capitate body. Femane. Racemes larger than 
the leaf. Sepal and Petal solitary. Ovary, ovate, villous. 
Berry globose, hispidulous. 
Leaves peltate, orbicular, cordate, villous. Srzriuz Frowers. racemose. FERTILE 
Fiowegs. spicate longer than the leaves. 
THE ARTIFICIAL CHARACTER. 
Cuass Diacia. Stamens apart from the pistils in different 
_ flowers upon different plants. Oxpar Monaveurma. Herbs. 
___Exogens, Dieecious, Fruit, a drupe. Stamens, more than ten. 
— Leaves, peltate. Climbing, suffruticose plants. Racemes 
