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different character of both its c? and $ inflorescence. It is 
found in the forests, climbing to the height of thirty or forty feet. 
Its axils are above 3 inches apart; the leaves are 5 inches in diam., 
with a short acute apex, and a very slender petiole 6 inches long, 
inserted at a distance of lj-l| inch within the margin of the 
short, broad, and almost obsolete basal sinus ; the smaller leaves 
are 3 inches in diam., on a petiole 3^ inches long. The ^ in- 
florescence is 5-7 inches long, on a slender pendent rachis, origi- 
nating 2 lines above the insertion of the petiole ; this has alter- 
nate axils 3-4 lines apart, each being furnished with a sericeous 
acute oblong bract scarcely ^ line long, and three fasciculated 
panicles 5-6 lines long ; the peduncle is 2^-3 lines long, its 
primary branchlets 1^ line, each surmounted by several minute 
bi’acts and several crowded pedicellated flowers, the pedicels being 
of different lengths. The $ raceme is 6-7 inches long, with 
axils ^-| inch apart, the setaceous bracts being 1 line long, the 
fasciculated 1-flowered pedicels 1-2 lines long, accompanied by a 
floriferous branchlet 6-9 lines long, bearing 3-5 pedicellated 
flowers. 
4. Cissampelos sijmpodialis, Eichl. in Mart. Flor. Bras. fasc. 38. 
p. 192, tab. 44. fig. 2; — ramulis teneris, valde flexuosis, 
striatis, glabris ; foliis profunde peltatis, oblongis, fere trian- 
gularibus, imo rotundatis vel truncatis, sursum gradatim an- 
gustatis, apice obtusis, subemarginatis et mucronatis, margine 
revoluto,9-nerviis, submembranaceis, valde reticulatis, utrinque 
glaberrimis, supra subnitidis, subtus paulo pallidioribus et 
opacioribus, petiolo tenui, striato, glabro, limbo multo breviore : 
paniculis axillaribus, 3-4, fasciculatis, patentira pilosis, 
trichotome ramosis, corymbosis, pedunculo ramisque sub- 
capillaribus, ramis ultimis spicatim paucifloris, vel in ramiilo 
novello folio sequilongo aphyllo racemum mentiente, axillis 
alternis bractea parva paniculisque 4 brevibus fasciculatis 
donatis : racemis $ axillaribus, geminis, folio subsequilongis, 
imbricatim bracteatis, rachi pilosa; bracteis profunde cordi- 
formibus, palatim petiolulatis, apice emarginatis et mucronatis, 
submembranaceis, utrinque glaberrimis; axillis 7-floris ; pedi- 
cellis densissime pilosis ; ovariis glabris; drupis parvis, ovatis, 
glabris. — In Brasilia septentrionali : v. s. in herb. Mus. Brit. 
cJ et $ , Traipu ad Rio San Francisco, in prov. Alagoas 
(Gardner, 1233, 1234) ; ? , Carnpo Grande, in prov. Biauhy 
(Gardner, 2474, 2472). 
This is a very distinct species, which I described long ago ; but, 
as my diagnosis was not published, the name I gave to it of course 
cedes to that of Dr. Fichler, though the designation sympodialis 
expresses no part of its character, there being nothing in the shape 
