361 
Cissus rufescens, G.d@ P.; Gilg & Brandt, Vitac. Afr. in Engl. 
Bot. Jahrb. xlvi. 473 (1912). 
Pankshin, 5100 ft., 14 July; climbing and creeping, 10 ft., 
flowers small, red. No. 434, 
Distrib. Senegambia to the onaieeeail and Lake Chad region. 
Cissus Lelyi, Hutchinson, sp. nov.; affinis C. Schweinfurthii, 
Planch., sed petiolis longioribus foliorum marginibus et alabastris 
haud glandulosis differt. 
Herba scandens 2 m. alta vel ultra; caulis circiter 3-5 mm. 
crassus, dense strigilloso-tomentosus et pilis rigidis apice glandu- 
losis parce indutus; internodii 5-5-5 cm. longi. Currhi oppositi- 
folii, ad 10 cm. longi, 8 superne contorti, albido-pubescentes. 
Folia digitatim 5-foliolata, breviter petiolata, foliolis oblanceo- 
latis acutis basi attenuatis 5-9 cm. longis 1-2 cm. latis chartaceis 
acute dentatis nervis et venis utrinque pubescentibus; petioli 
1-1-5 cm. longi, pubescentes ; petioluli 3-5 mm . longi; stipulae 
lineari-oblongae, acute acuminatae, usque ad 1-5 om. longae, 
3 mm. latae, extra strigilloso-pubescentes, intra glabrae et 
striatae. Inflorescentia terminalis, cymosa, circiter 6 cm. expansa ; 
subnullus, extra pubescens. Corolla urceolata, medio contracta 
apice truncata, 2-5-3 mm. longa, 1-75 mm. diametro, appresse 
pubescens. Stamina plerumque 4, erecta, inter lobos disci 
inserta; filamenta 1-75 mm. longa; antherae rotundatae, 
0-65 mm. longae. Ovarium ovoideum, glabrum; stylus 1 mm. 
longus. 
NortTHEeRN Nigeria. Top of Zaranda Mountain, 5800 ft., 
climbing 6 ft. or more, flowers greenish white, 18 May 1921, 
HT. V. Lely No. 194. 
Cissus crotalarioides, Planch.; Gilg & Brandt, Vitac. Afr. 
Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xlvi. 498 cis12 ). 
Naraguta, 3 ft. high, No. 
Nabardo, 2300 te 20 May, 2-3 ft. high, umbel of greenish 
flowers, No. 210. 
Distrib —Also in Jurland, and Nyasaland. 
Cissus adenocaulis, Stewd.; Gilg & Brandt, Vitac. Afr. in Engl. 
Bot. Jahrb. xlvi. 516 (1912). 
Tilde Filani, 3300 ae 24 May, climbing 10 ft., umbel of 
red flowers, No. 
Distrib—Very widely peers in Tropical Africa. 
Cissus rubiginosa, Welw.; Gilg & Brandt, Vitac. Afr. in Engl. 
Bot. Jahrb. xlvi. 475 (1912). 
ga 4300 ft., 8 July; 2 ft. high, flowers small, white, 
388. 
Distrib _N. Solus Angola, and the Northern Lake Region of 
East Afric 
