310 MENISPERMACE. 
tum vel gemmiferz florifereque, gemma semper externa. Um- 
bella petiolo brevior, simplex vel composita, radii insequales, 
pedunculo breviores, basi bractea lineari suffulta centrale ex- 
cepto. 
Flores capitata, plures in quolibet capitulo, quorum cen- 
trali majora przcocioreque, sessiles, minute  inconspicui, 
viridescentes, exteriores prius florentes, sepissime nudi, ir- 
regulariter evoluti normaliter ternarium. 
Sepala normaliter 3, spathulato-obovata pubescentia. 
Petala totidem conformia sed majora. 
Glandulz 3 discretz rotundato-cuneate carnosz, glabre, 
virides sepalis oppositze. 
Columna staminum petala subzquans cylindracea, apice 
dilatato plano. Anthere 3, transverse circa caput columna 
site, petalis opposite? transverse dehiscentes, ad anthesin 
una septis obsoletis confluentes, initio 4-locellatze? 
Pollen album, rotundato-angulatum leve. . 
Has. Upper Assam. Suddyah in sylvis: May 26¢h, 1836. 
Oss. Marem tantum vidi. Columnz vasorum fasciculus 
unicus. Glandule mediatenus l-venise. De situ staminum du- 
bito judicare vix possible est ob septa obsoletissime sed ob 
analogiam conjicio petalis opposita esse, ideoque glandulis 
alternantum. Sepala petala, et glandule szepe numero varie. 
G. sepissime terna. 
C. capitata, foliis peltatis cordato-ovatis basi 9-venus, Cà 
pitulis lorum umbellatis, glandulis tribus. 
2. Cissampelos sp. Pl. CCCCXCVII. Fig. III. 
The female flowers consist of invariably of 4 ovaries, seated 
somewhat obliquely on the apices of as many pedicells. Their 
only envelope consists of a double scale, which is always 
situated externall y; the inner being smaller and more round- 
ed, 
The usual explanation of this is I fancy that the flowers 
are quaternarily aggregate, the perianth of each being !* 
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