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are ^ line long, the petal minute, ^ line in diam., and the 4-lobed 
anther scarcely exserted. The $ raceme is 4-5 inches long, 
the imbricately bracteiform leaflets are 5-10 lines in diam., 
each concealing in its axil five or six flowers on glabrous pedicels ; 
the drupes I found to be pilose, but MM. Triana and Planchon 
state that the ovary is glabrous. 
2. Cissampelos glaherrima, St. Hil. FI. Bras. i. 57 ; Eichl. in Mart. 
FI. Bras. fasc. 38. p. 192, tab. 45 ; — Cissampelos Pareira, Veil, 
{non Linn.), FI. Flum. x. tab. 138; — Cissampelos clematidea, 
Presl, Bot. Bemerk. 7 ; Walp. Ann. i. 18 ; — alte scandens, 
ubique glaberrima, siccitate fuscescens; raraulis teretibus, 
striatis ; folds profunde peltatis, suborbiculatis, imo subtrun- 
catis, ultra medium paulo angustioribus, apice obtusissimis, 
emarginatis et longe mucronatis, 10-12-nerviis, supra sub- 
nitidis, fusco-viridibus, nervis pallidis prominulis, subtus 
pallide ferrugineo- vel cinereo-glaucis, petiolo striato, superne 
canaliculato, in tenuissimo, limbo multo longiore, in $ 
paulo breviore et validiore ; paniculis supra-axillaribus, binis, 
pedunculis longissimis, capillaribus, petiolo brevioribus, apice 
breviter 3-ramosis, ramis ebracteatis, alternatim spicatifloris, 
floribus pedicellatis, minusculis; vel infloresceutia e ramulo 
novello folio longiore racemum floriferum simulante, axillellis 
paniculis 2 consimilibus sed brevioribus bracteaque foliiformi 
muuitis; bracteis orbicularibus, peltatis, petiolulatis, superne 
gradatim evanescentibus ; sepalis lanceolatis petaloque turbi- 
nato-campaniformi glabris ; anthera 4-loba, inclusa : racemis 
$ binis vel solitariis, supra-axillaribus, folio 3-plo longioribus, 
rachi tenui, striata, supra basin foliolis consimilibus alternis 
infecundis donata, superne racemiformibus, imbricatim brac- 
teatis, bracteis cordato-orbiculatis, brevissime palatim petiolu- 
latis, singulis flores 4 pedicellatos fasciculatos emittentibus ; 
sepalo oblongo ; petalo orbiculari, breviore, lateribus inflexis, 
ambobus carnosis ; ovario glaberrimo. — In Brasilia, v.v. 
in montibus Organensibus et Valen 9 a, prov. Rio de Janeiro; 
V. s. in herb. Mus. Brit, et Hook. $ , Pernambuco (Gardner) ; 
in herb. Hook, ex herb. Imp. Vindob. Brasilia (no. 1303). 
This is a well-marked species, dilFering from the preceding in 
its entirely glabrous habit, its smaller, darker, and less peltate 
leaves, in their texture, and in its inflorescence. The internodes 
are 6 to 10 lines long; the leaves are 1| inch long, 14 lines 
broad, with a petiole 2 inches long, inserted 4 lines within the 
basal margin ; they become gradually smaller towards the ex- 
tremities of the branches. The capillary peduncle of the axillary 
panicles is 1^ inch long, their floriferous branches forming 
cymose heads of very small flowers, 3 lines in diam. ; the axillary 
