ClSSUS. TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 405 



rather thick, smooth, tough, and brown. Perisperm conform 

 to the seed. Embryo sub cylindric, erect. Cotyledon long, 

 linear. Radicle inferior, one-fourth the length of the cotyle- 

 don. 



Obs. From the seeds a mucilaginous drink is prepared, 

 and often prescribed by our medical gentlemen in India, 

 where emollients are wanted. They are also used by the 

 native practitioners in medicine, and are to be met with for 

 sale in the bazars of India under the Persian name Uspagool. 



CISSUS. Schreb. gen. N. 192. 



Calyx four-toothed. Carol four-petalled. Germ two-cell- 

 ed ; ovula two, erect. Berry superior, from one to four-seeded. 

 Embryo erect, in the base of an ample perisperm. 



1 . C. adnata. R. 



Leaves round-cordate, bristle serrate, acuminate. Stipules 

 orbicular, adnate, with gibbous centre, and scariose margins. 

 Cymes Hat, flowers drooping*. 



A native of the country about Dacca, from thence the late 

 Colonel Peter Murray sent it to the Botanic garden, where it 

 thrives well, blossoms in May and June, and ripens its fruit 

 in September. 



Stem and large branches ligneous, climbing over trees to 

 a considerable extent, young shoots round, a little downy 

 and slightly furrowed. Leaves alternate, round-cordate, and 

 often obliquely so, acuminate, bristle-senate, the largest some- 

 times slightly repand ; pretty smooth above, but downy un- 

 derneath, particularly the veins, from two to six inches long, 

 one-fourth less in breadth. Peduncles half the length of the 

 leaves, downy. Stipules nearly oval, adnate, elevated, and 

 of a deeper green in the middle ; margins scariose, and brown. 

 Tendrils opposite to the leaves where there is no cyme. 

 Cymes opposite to the leaves, on villous peduncles, as long 

 as the petioles, very ramous, flat. Flowers numerous, small, 



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