Cissampelos.] flora indica. 199 



Seneg. i. 11. C. acuminata, Benth.! PI. Hartweg. C. nephrophylla, 

 Bojer, Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 2. xx. 55. C. comata, Miers ! in Hook. Niger 

 FL 215. C. Vogelii, Miers, I. c. 214 (quoad plant, masc.f). C. dis- 

 color, A. Gray, Bot. Wilkes Exped.i. 38 (non DC). Menispermum 

 orbiculatum, Linn. Sp. 1468. Cocculus orbiculatus, DC. Syst. i. 523, 

 Prod. i. 98. C. villosus, Wall. Cat. 4957 G partim / (spec. masc). C. 

 membranaceus, Wall. Cat. 4967 ! 

 Quoad foliorum formam v 



a. foliis peltatis rotundato-deltoideis basi truncatis. 



j3. foliis plus minus peltatis rotundatis vel late ovatis basi 

 datis. 



y. foliis baud peltatis rotundatis vel late ovatis basi cordatis. 

 8. foliis Laud aut vix peltatis reniformibus obtusissimis ssepe e 

 ginatis. 



Quoad indumentum varial 



a. foliis firmis conspicue nervosis laxe hirsutis vel tomentosis. 



b. foliis tenuibus supra puberulis subtus adpresse sericeis. 



c. foliis supra glabriusculis subtus pubescentibus. 



d. foliis etiam junioribus utrinque glabriusculis. 

 Hab. Per totam Iodise planitiem et in montibus utriusque penin- 

 sula et Himalayse inferioris usque ad Jelam flumen vulgatissima, ex- 

 ceptis provinciis aridissimis Afghanistan, Beluchistan, Sindh, Marwar, 

 Panjab. — (Fl. per totuni annum.) (v. v.) 



Distrib. In zona tropica et temperata calidiore utriusque orbis. 



Frut 



ran us 



rarius acuta, rarissime acuminata, basi truncata vel cordata, sinu aperto vel pro- 

 fundi, diaraetro 1-4-pollicaria. Petioli folia pleruiuque vix sequantes, interduin duplo 

 superantes. Cymce masculce axillares vel paullo extra-axillares, interdum in ramulo 

 axillari corymbosie, \-\\ poll, longse, plerumque 2-3 superpositse in eadem axilla, 

 decomposite, multiflorre, bracteolis minutia subulatis raris-ime una alterave sub- 

 foliosa. Pedunculi graciles, pubescentes vel tomentosi, vel pilis patentibus hirsuti, 

 plerumque petiolo dimidio breviores, interdum eum superantes. Loco cymae infe- 

 rioris vel omnium, in plantis luxuriantibus, ramus microphallus elongatus, cyinas par- 

 vnlas in axillis gerens, baud raro evolvitur. Eacemi fceminei solitarii vel biui, axil- 

 lares, florigeri folia vix sequantes, fructiferi pleruiuque elongati. Bract ea subsessiles, 

 dense vel laxe imbricataj, rotuodatre vel reniformes, breviter vel longe raucronata?, 

 cinereo-iucanse, plerumque ciliato-villosse, interdum glabrae, in speciminibus luxuri- 

 antibus petiolatee, vel in folia parva evoluta?, in fructu persistentes, vel rarius post 

 florescentiam decidual, in fructu iinmutntse vel submembranacea?. Pedicelli florum 

 fcemiueoruin brevissimi, pubi- entes vel laxe villosae. Ovaria tomentosa, rarius gla- 

 briuscida. Drujpa compressee, subrotundatse, coccineae, circa 2 lineas lata, hirsute 



ve] demum subglabrae. 



The long list of synonyms which we have given above will show the view we talce 

 of this species. Wight and Arnott having reduced all the Indian forms to Gssam- 

 petos convoluulacea, it became necessary to find some character, if possible, to dis- 

 tinguish that species from its American and rican congeners. The two charac- 

 ters indicated by Wight and Arnott, namely, the length of the staminal column 

 and the shape of the male sepals, proved Very unsatisfactory, and an examina- 

 tion of the floral organs, male and female, has indicai 1 a degree of variabilis for 

 which we were not prepared. The -ize of the flowers, both male and female 



