82 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
plant. The thickened, rigid peduncle doubtless affords the 
necessary firm jumping-off point. 
Cissus spp.* Nos. 1336, 1337, 1338, 1339, 1340, species of 
common. Protandry is marked in all, the stamens shrivelling up 
the flower. y : 
brilliant, glistening drops of honey, which, being freely exposed, 
attract man 
0. 1337, though loving the shade, also grows upon the open 
veld, but sparsely. It is a graceful plant. The halves of its leaf- 
segm 
folded together. 
Nos. 1338, 1339, and 1340 were only found beneath the shade 
of the trees in which the kopje abounds. No. 1338 has beauty, 
and is peculiar in that the fruit ripens in the upright position. 
The leaf has seven segments. 
No. 1339 is covered, both as to its leaves and fruit, with fine 
glandular hairs. The leaf is sessile and has three segments. 
No. 1340 has normally five leaf segments. 
*(n. 1337. Cissus jatrop 
Kew. collected by L. Scott between Blantyre and Matope, by Th 
Nyasa and Tanganyika, by Baines in the South 
Kirk at Mombane. — n. 1336 is alli. 
5 
bh 
ie 2) 
-~ 
ry 
@ 
a 
ee 
9 
i=] 
g 
gx 
J 
> 
= 
~ 
-~ 
@ 
-_-_~ 
~ 
L ; i ot seen a diagnosis of 
C. rhodesie Gilg mentioned by Engler in Sitz. K. Preuss. Akad. der Wissen- 
schaft. lii. 25 (1906)—E. G. B.] 
