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of its inflorescence difierent fromthatof most others of this section. 
The magnified di'awing of the ramifications of its panicle in the 
plate above quoted is greatlyexaggerated in its proportions,and far 
from exact; and no one would imagine from it that the branches 
and pedicels are almost capillary and clothed with very long hairs. 
In the specimen from Paranagua the leaves are more than one- 
half larger than the others; they are l|-3 inches long, 1|— 2^ 
inches broad, on a petiole 9-15 lines long, which is inserted 
6-10 lines within the basal margin. In the ^ plants the slender 
axillary peduncle, 12-18 lines long, patently pilose, has about 
six alternate axils, each with a very small ovate bract, scarcely a 
line long, and three or four fasciculated capillary pedicels 2-3 
lines long, each twice dichotomously divided, with a single 
1 -flowered pedicel in each dichotomy, the ultimate branches 
bearing about five or six alternate flowers on short pedicels, all 
pilose ; the flower has four cuneately oblong sepals clothed with 
long hairs outside ; the petal is in the form of a depressed cup, 
and glabrous, the 4-lobed anther being scarcely exserted. In 
the $ plant two racemes in each axil are 1^-2 inches long, the 
closely imbricated bracts are 3 to 6 lines in diam., the obovate 
sepal is exti’emely villous, the petal is glabrous. 
5. Cissampelos Fluminensis, Eichl. in Mart. Flor. Bras. fasc. 38. 
p. 191, tab. 44. fig. 1; — ramulis glabriusculis, obsolete villosis; 
ibliis profunde peltatis, trigonoideis, angulis basalibus rotun- 
datis, imo in sinura latum leviter cordatis, lateribus fere rectis, 
apice acutis vel obtusiusculis, aristato-mucronatis, membra- 
naceis, 9-11-nerviis, supra subconcavis, utrinque parce ad- 
presso-pilosis,vel glabrescentibus ; petiolo tenui, pilosulo, limbo 
subbreviore : inflorescentia ^ axillari, e ramulo novello folio- 
lifero et florifero, racemum folio aequilongum mentiente; foliolis 
bracteiformibus, cordiformibus, aristatis et petiolulatis; panicu- 
lis aut solitariis vel pluribus fasciculatis, griseo villosis, brac- 
teaque aequilonga in singulis axillulis,subcorymbosis,diehotome 
ramosis, bracteolatis, cum pedicello in quaque dicbotomia, 
ramis ultimis subspicatim paucifloris; bracteolis setaceo-lineari- 
bus ; floribus minutissimis ; sepalis pilosis. — In sylvis fluv. 
Solimoes et Amazonas. 
This species is unknown to me, but it is evidently distinct and 
allied to all the preceding ones ; it resembles C. tropceolifolia in 
its floriferous male branchlets, where the young leaves are re- 
duced to the size of mere bracts, and the panicles are dwindled in 
proportion. The leaves, 1| inch apart, are 2^-2^ inehes long, 
with a broad basal sinus 1 line deep, 2^-2^ inches broad, with a 
petiole 1^-1| inch long, which is inserted 3 lines within the 
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