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AMPELIDEO. 
‘Cissus. è 
Cissus spicifera, Gr. 
Scandens cirrhifer. 
Cirrhi oppositifolia. 
Folia petiolat. (petioli utrinque incrassat.) lete  ovalia 
vel ovato-cuspidata, basin versus excepta distanter serrata as- 
pectu Menispermeo. 
Racemi spiciformis, oppositifol. - terminalis, solitaria, 
vel dichotoma pendula pedules, like tails, sulcate thickened 
at the base and looking like the ends of the petioles. Flores 
subsessiles, 3-5 aggregati, alabast ovalia. 
Cal. minutissimus a mere rim irregularly toothed round 
apex of pedicel. 
Petala 4 margine valvate, margine apices versus quasi in 
duplica oblonga concava patente reflexa. 
Stam. totidem petal opposita. Filam. longa, petiolis paullo 
brevior apice constricta. Anth, subcordate bilocular sinu 
affixa longit. dehiscent. 
Ovaria magnum, apice areolat. lateribus exaratis lineis 4 
profundis in quibus filament nidulant bilocul. stylus sub 0. 
Stigma obtusum locul. biovulat. 
'The apex of the ovarium marked with 8 ovate or lanceolate 
impressions, ovula ascendentia anatropa (with two integu- 
ment.) 
Fructus disposed as the flowers, ovuli elliptic green, 
Size of a small gooseberry baccate containing 2 oblong, 
plano convex erect seeds with a castaneous tegument, curi- 
ously intrant into fleshy albumen. 
Embryo in the axis of the base of the albumen. Radicle 
longish subcompressed, inferior cotyledons, ovato-cordate 
With broad base, white flat foliaceous veined. 
Fruit marked especially towards apex with black longit. 
