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and the stamens on the surface: berry pulpy, often 1-celled by 
abortion: seeds 1-6: albumen hard: embryo erect. 
GENUS I. CISSUS. 
Tetrandria Monogynia. Sex: Syst: 
Deriv. From the Greek word Kissos, ivy, alluding to the climb= 
ing habit of the plants. 
Gen. Cuar. Calyx almost entire: petals 4, usually distinct at 
the apex: ovary 4-celled: berry 1-4-seeded: peduncles wholly 
either floriferous or changed into tendrils: climbing plants with 
simple, trifoliate or digitate leaves, and cymes or corymbs of small, 
greenish, yellow, or purplish flowers. 
(1) C. nequauis. (Herb. Heyne.) 
Ident. W.& A. prod. I. p. 125. 
Syn. Vitis inequalis, Wall. 
Spec. Cuan. Glabrous: stems 4-angled: stipules ear-shaped : 
leaves ovate, acuminated, obliquely truncated at the base, with 
close-pressed, bristly serratures, entire: umbels sessile: fruit the 
size of a peppercorn, 
Travancore. 
(2) C. quapraneutaris. (Linn.) 
Ident. W. & A, prod. I. p. 125.—Dec. prod. I. p. 628.— 
Roxb. fi. Ind. I. p. 407. 
Syn. Vitis quadrangularis, Wall. 
Engrav. Wight’s Icon. t. 51.—Rheede Mal, VIF. t. 41.— 
Rumph. Amb. V. t. 44. f. 2. 
Srec. Cuan. Glabrous: stems 4-angled and winged: stipules 
lunate: leaves cordate-ovate, serrulated : umbels on short pedun- 
cles: petals distinct: fruit 1-celled, 1-seeded : flowers small, white, 
Peninsula. Guzerat. Flowering in the rainy season. 
(3) C. repanpa. (Vaihl.) 
Ident. Vahl. Symb. III. p. 18.—Dee. prod. I. p. 627. 
Syn. C. Indica, Rottl—Dec. prod. I. p. 628.—Vitis repanda, 
W. & A. prod. I. p. 125, 
Spec. Cuar. Young parts tomentose: stipules oblong: leaves 
cordate-roundish, shortly acuminated, entire, repand-toothed, or 
serrated, young ones tomentose, particularly beneath: tendrils 
none: umbels compound: petals deciduous, cohering at the apex. 
Peninsula. Malabar Hill, Bombay. 
