840 DIOECIA MONADELPHIA. Cissampclos^ 



7. J. chinensis. R. 



Leaves scattered, approximate, linear-lanceolar, rather ob- 

 tuse. *Ma!e aments cylindric. Anthers two-Iobcd. 



A native of China, in the Botanic garden the male plant 

 flowers in February. 



CISSAMPELOS. Schreh. gen. N. 1555. 



Male. Calyx from four to six-leaved. Corol none, or 

 three-petalled. Anthers on the margin of the peltate apex 

 of single filaments. Female. Calyx and corol various. 

 Germ superior, one-celled, one-seeded ; attachment lateral. 

 Berries oblique, containing one rugose, doubled seed. £»i- 

 bryo inverse, uncinate, and furnished with a perisperra. 



]. C. glabra. R, 



Perennial, twining", every part smooth. Leaves round cor- 

 date, peltate, scarcely repand; wmfte^s 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 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 to six inches. Petioles longer than the leaves, round and 

 smooth. Male. 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 



