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these flowers are only in bud. St. Hilaire (FI. Bras. i. 58) refers 
this species to Cissampelos ; but he has confounded Cocculus 
tamoides, DC., with Cissampelos tamoides, DC. 
5. Odontocarya sagittata,-ao\i.-, ramulis gracilibus, scandentibus, 
glabris, teretibus, striatis; folds sagittato-oblongis, cordatis, 
sinu profundo et angusto, bine gradatim angustioribus, apice 
repente attenuatis, acumine obtuso aut acuto, mucronato, 
marginibus subsinuatis, utrinque glabris, opacis, e basi 5- 
nerviis, valde reticulatis ; petiolo gracili, imo incrassato, limbo 
dimidio breviore ; racemo axillari, gracili, folium vix excedente, 
vel paulo breviore, pedicellis 1-floris, alternis, brevibus; flori- 
bus parvis. — In Demerara, v. s. in herb. Hook. (Mrs. Parker). 
This species is intermediate with the preceding and following; 
its branches are very slender, with internodes of 2-2^ inches ; 
the leaves are 3^ inches long from the bottom of the basal lobes, 
or 2f inches from the insertion of the petiole, 2^ inches broad 
across the basal lobes, thence becoming gradually narrower; 
the petiole is slender, 1 J inch long ; the racemes 3^ inches long ; 
the three outer sepals are small and oval, the three inner ones 
double their length, spathulate-oblong, very membranaceous ; 
six petals, two-thirds their length, fleshy, with the sides some- 
what inflected; six stamens, as long as the inner sepals, the fila- 
ments being monadelphous at base for half their length, with 
distinct anther-cells fixed on the margins of the filaments. 
6. Odontocarya hedercefolia, nob.; — Chondodendi’on hederae- 
folium, nob. olim; — Chondodendron tomentosum {in parte), 
Benth. {non R. ^ P.) Proc. Linn. Soc. v. 2nd Suppl.47 ; — ramulis 
striatis, subpubescentibus vel glabris; folds subrotundatis 
vel subhastato-trilobis, imo late cordatis aut truncatis, vel 
circa petiolum paulo decurrentibus bine 2-sinuatis, sursum 
angustiorihus, ad'apicem 3-angularem acutis, e basi 5-7-ner- 
viis, supra glabris, vel sparse pubescentibus, subtus pallidis, 
molliter cano pubescentibus, petiolo tenui pubescente aequi- 
longis ; racemo ^ gracili, folio longiore ; pedicellis 5-6, fasci- 
culatis, fasciculis alternis : $ simillimo, pedicellis solitariis 
alternis; drupis minoribus. — In America meridionali inter- 
tropica, v. s. in herb. Hook. ; Piauhy, <5 (Gardner, 2009) ; 
Guiana (Parker) ; Bio Guainia, Rio Casiquiare (Spruce, 3567); 
Panama, et $ (Hall, 201). 
This species is variable in the form of its leaves : it was found 
growing on old walls in Panama by Hall. In the Guiana plant 
(var. canescens) the leaves are more densely pubescent. It is a 
weak and slender plant, with leaves 2^-3 inches long, and about 
the same breadth, on a petiole 1^-2^ inches long; the d raceme 
