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1. AmERICANjE. 
* Folia peltata ; scandentes. 
1. Cissampelos tropaolifolia, DC. Syst. i. 532; Prodr. i. 100; 
Deless. Icon. i. 26, tab. 98 ; Eichler in Mart. FI. Bras. fasc. 
38. p. 191, tab. 44; — ramulis teneris, teretibiis, striatis, 
hirto-pilosis ; foliis profunde peltatis, deltoideo-orbiculatis, 
imo truncatis vel rotundis, apice obtusiusculis, aristato-mu- 
cronatis, submembranaceis, 10-nerviis, supra sparsim hirsutis, 
margine ciliatis, subtus cinereo-glaucis et prsesertiin in nervis 
patentim hispidis, petiolo tenui, patentim hispidulo, in ^ 
longiore, in ? breviore : inflorescentia ^ elongata, supra- 
axillari, folio longiore ; rachi recta, gracili, ramosa ; axillis re- 
motiusculis, bractea foliiformi petiolulata munitis, singulis pa- 
niculis 2-3 fasciculatis pubescentibus donatis, quarum pedun- 
culo capillari, bis dichotome ramoso, sinibus semper 1-lloris; 
ramulis ultimis spicatim pedicellatis, glabris ; sepalis 4, ovato- 
oblongis, petaloque poculiformi glaberrimis : racemo ? axillari, 
undique hispido-piloso; bracteis alternis, sessilibus, reniformi- 
bus ; floribus pedicellatis, 3-5, intra bracteas fasciculatis. — In 
Peruvia, Ecuador, et Brasilia : v. s. in herb. De Boissier, et ? , 
Cuchero (Pavon) ; ^ yin herb. DeCandolle, Bahia (Blanchet, 
290) ; in herb. Mus. Biit. (J, Crato, prov. Ceara (Gardner, 
1444) ; in herb. Hook. ^ , Peru (Mathews, 2057) ; Antioquia, 
Ecuador (Jervise). 
In this species, as in some others of the genus, the flowers are 
evolved upon a slender axillary branchlet, and are perfected while 
the young leaves are not larger than bracts, so that the inflo- 
rescence thus assumes the appearance of a bracteated raceme : 
this is exceptional in the male plants, but is universal in all the 
female scandent plants throughout the genus, where, however, the 
bracts are sometimes nearly wanting; the $ inflorescence is 
therefore described by botanists as a simple raceme, although in 
reality it is not so. In this well-marked species the leaves are 
2^-34 inches long, and equally bi’oad, the insertion of the petiole 
being 7-10 lines within the margin, the petiole, sparsely covered 
with long fine soft hairs, being 2-3 inches long and slightly de- 
flected. The rachis of the ^ inflorescence is delicately slender, 
pilose, 3-5 inches long, with peltately petiolulated orbicular 
bracts, inch apart, 2-4 lines in diam., membranaceous, 
pilose ; from the axil of each of these, three capillary corymbose 
panicles emanate, | inch long, dichotomously branched, generally 
with a single pedicellated flower in each dichotomy, the ultimate 
ramifications bearing several alternate pedicellated flowers, the 
pedicels being ^ line long, and the flowers glabrous ; the sepals 
