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et pedunculata, pedunculo bracteam solitariam parvam folii- 
formem paniculasque 3 fasciculatas dichotome divisas et diva- 
ricatim corymbosas apice gerente; sepalis spathulato-ob- 
longis, extus pilosis ; petalo glabro : racemo ? supra-axillari ; 
petiolo longiore, pubescente, remote bracteato ; bracteis orbi- 
cularibus vel transversim latioribus, longe mueronatis, petiolu- 
latis ; floribus pedicellatis, 6-7 in axillulis fasciculatis ; ovario, 
sepalo spathulato-oblongo, petaloque orbiculari extus pilosis ; 
drupis sparse pilosis. — In Antilis et Guiana : v. s. in herb. 
Mus. Brit. (^ , Martinica (Rohr, 158) ; in herb. Lindl. et Hook., 
& $ , Surinam (Hostmann, 19) ; in herb. Hook. ^ , Tovar, 
Venezuela (Fendler, 14). 
This resembles many of the foregoing species in the manner 
of its male inflorescence, but differs in its less peltate leaves, 
generally with a deep basal sinus, upon remarkably long and 
very slender petioles. Its axils are 2^-2^ inches apart; the 
leaves are 3-3^ inches long, 3-3|^ inches broad, with a basal 
sinus usually 3 lines deep, on a slender petiole 3^—4 inches 
long, inserted 3 lines within the margin of the sinus ; in the 
young branches, where the leaves are 1| inch in diam., the petiole 
is 1^ inch long. The racemiform inflorescence is 1^ inch long, 
with axils 3-6 lines apart, each provided with an orbicular leaf- 
like bract, 2 lines in diam., and accompanied by one to three 
panicles, in the largest of which the capillary peduncle is 4 lines 
long, with two primary branches 2 lines long, each again dicho- 
tomous, and a solitary pedicel in each furcation. Sometimes 
the inflorescence consists of a pedicel or rachis, varying in 
length, with a single orbicular bract, 1^ line in diam., from 
which issue two or three panicles, 6-9 lines long, similar to 
those described. The $ raceme is 3^-6 inches long, with 
axils 3 lines apart, each bearing an orbicular membranaceous 
bract, 2-3 lines in diam. (some of the lower ones often larger), 
on a petiolule 1 line long ; the pedicels of the fasciculated flowers 
are 1 line long, the spathulately oblong sepal ^ line long, the 
orbicular unguiculated petal ^ line in diam. 
8. Cissampelos Pareira, Linn. Sp. 1473 ; Lam. 111. t. 830 ; Sw. 
Ohs. 380, t. 10. fig. 5 ; DC. Syst. i. 533, Prodr. i. 100 ; Hook. 
& Th. (non Linn.) FI. Ind. i. 198 ; Eichl. (non Linn.) in Mart. 
FI. Bras. fasc. 38. 188 ; — Cissampelos Coceulus, inparte, Poir. 
Encyc. v. 9 ; — Cissampelos Kobautiana, Presl, Rel. Hank. ii. 
81; — Clematis baccifera. Plum. Am. 78, t. 93; — ramulis 
teretibus, striatis, glabriusculis vel sparse retrorsum pilosulis; 
folds peltatis, deltoideo-ovatis vel orbicularibns, imo sinu lato 
cordatis, surnmum versus paululo angustioribus, apice plus 
minusve obtusis, ssepius emarginatis et aristato-mucronatis, 
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