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the supplementary lists under the letter C, Dr. Wallich having inadvertently over- 

 looked the previous employment of that letter in the body of the work. 



3. S. rotunda (Lour.! Fl. Coch. Chin. 747) ; foliis late ovatis vel 

 fere rotundatis irregulariter sinuato-lobatis vel repandis tenuibus gla- 

 bris longe petiolatis, umbellulis laxe cymosis. — Cocculus Eoxburghia- 

 nus, Wall. Cat. 4972 ! (vix DC.) ; W. et A. Prod. i. 450 in adnot. C. 

 Finlaysonianus, Wall. Cat. 4974 ! excl. spec, sinist. ad S. hernandifo- 

 liam pertinens. Cissampelos glabra, Boxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 840 (et vero- 



Herb. Hamilton) 

 i. 22. 



Wight 



Hab. In Himalaya tropica et temperata a basi ad alt. 7000 ped.; 

 Simla! Kumaon, Sir. et WintJ Nipal, Wall.! Sikkim ! Bhotan, Grif- 

 fith ! Assam, Hamilton ; in montibus Khasia ! et Silhet, Wall, t; in 

 Pegu, M'Clelland! ; et in montibus peninsulse australioris ad Courta- 

 lam, Wight!— (Fl. Apr., Jun.) (v. v.) 



Distrib. Siam! Cochin China! 



Fritter alte scandens. Badix tuberosa, magna, subglobosa. Catties vetustiores 

 tuberculis rimosis crebris tecti, grisei vel flavicantes ; juniores glaberrimi, atrofusci, 

 atriati. Folia obtusa vel acuta, interdum acuminata, subtus pallida, 3-7 poll, louga 

 et sequilata. Fetioli folia sequantes vel (prsesertim in foliis majoribus) longti supe- 

 rantes, interdum 9-pollicares, graciles, basi subarticulati. Fedunculi longitudine 

 valde varii, ssepe petiolos sequantes, axillares et gracillimi, vel secus caules crassiores 

 ad axillas foliorum delapsorum solitarii aut in ramulo abbreviato aphyllo racemosi, et 

 tunc crassiores, fceminei saepe carnosuli. Umbellce radii abbreviati vel elongati, 

 basi bracteolis subulatis stipati, cymosi. Flores majusculi, diametro interdum fere 

 4 -pollicares, sed plerumque minores, flavidi vel crocei, carnosuh. Sepala in flore 

 masc. 6-10, biserialia, anguste cuneata, obtusa, dorso furfuracea vel puberula. Fe- 

 tala 3-5, late cuneata, sepalis \ breviora. Drupa glabra;. 



Loureiro's specimen in the British Museum, though very imperfect, evidently be- 

 longs to the species now described. We refrain from quoting De Candolle's C. Rox- 

 burgkianus, because he describes the peduncles as " adpresse velutini," and the leaves 

 as quite entire ; his description is also otherwise unintelligible. C. Wightii, Am., is 

 stated to have the male flowers in a simple capitulum, but the specimen before us 

 (which bears ripe fruit) agrees so exactly with S. rotunda that we cannot doubt the 

 identity of the two ; probably, therefore, the male umbels are very young, in which 

 state those of S. rotunda appear to form a simple head. Roxburgh describes the 

 female flower with one sepal, and two petals longer than the sepal, and of a deep 

 orange-yellow colour. This is evidently the structure of the genus Cyclea, but 

 Ixmreiro describes the perianth of the female flower as consisting of six leaves. We 

 do not possess the means of determining this point. Possibly Roxburgh may have 

 bad sent to him specimens of Cyclea populifolia, as his description of the female in- 

 florescence does not agree with our specimens, in which it is the same as in the male. 

 According to Roxburgh the tuberous roots of this species are very acrid, and are 

 used in medicine. Loureiro says they are very bitter, and have similar qualities 

 to those of Aristolochia rotunda. 



11. CISSAMPELOS, Linn. 



Mas. Sepala 4. Petala 4, in corollam cupuliformem margine fere 

 indivisam coalita. Imkm. Sepala 2 in sqaamam carnosulam saspius 

 kinervem cmanrinatam vel indivisam bractea antica suffultam coalita. 



