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sisting of numerous cymes. The female inflorescences have each a 

 simple axis; this bears alternate bracts, usually broad rounded, 

 axillary to which the floral pedicels are arranged in two parallel 

 series between the bract and the axis (figs. 25, 26), becoming 

 shorter from within outwards.' All the known species 2 inhabit the 

 tropics. 



Cissampelos Pareira. 



Fig. 22. 

 Male inflorescence. 



Fig. 25. 

 Female inflorescence. 



Fig. 23. 

 Male flower (j). 



Fig. 26. Fig. 24. 



Diagram of female inflorescence. Long. sect, of male flower. 



1 The very singular structure of these flowers, 

 which seem like only parts of a single regular 

 flower each more or less elevated on a hranch or 

 division of the floral receptacle, and tbe position of 

 the placenta relative to the sepal and petal, are 

 facts which deserve the full attention of botanists, 

 especially those who are in a position to observe 

 the organogeny of the female flowers of Cissam- 

 pelos. 



2 Miees (in Ann. Nat. Hist., xvii. 128) ad- 



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mits sixty-nine, besides five species for Antizoma 

 and one for Dissopetalum. Bentham & 

 Hooker reduce them to some eighteen. — A.S.H., 

 PI. Us. Brasil., t. 34, 35; Fl. Bras. Mer., i. t. 

 ii.— Deless., Ic. Sel., i. t. 98, 99. — Geiseb., Fl. 

 Brit. W. Ind., 10 ; PI. Wright., 5.— Haev. & 

 Sond., Fl. Cap., i. 10, 11 {Antizoma). — Eichl., 

 in Mart. Fl. Bras., Menisp., 183, t. 43-46. — 

 Oliv., Fl. Trop. Afr., i. 45.— Walp., Rep., i. 96; 

 ii. 749 j v. 17 ; Ann., i. 18 ; ii. 22 ; iv. 130. 



