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CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOTANY, 
impressis flavido tomentellis, marginibus oano vel ferrugineo 
lanatis, subtus pilis subferrugineis aut flavidis sericeo pubes- 
ceutibus ; petiolo subtenui, limbo paulo breviore, tomentoso : 
paniculis j' in axillis 1-3, fasciculatis, subpilosis, petiolum 
sequantibus, gracillime ramosis, ramis ramulisque saepe brac- 
teolatis, dichotome divisis, interdum altera racemiformi co- 
mitatis (aut solitaria), e ramulo novello bracteato et florifero 
producta; bracteis foliiformibus aut interdum setaceis; pani- 
culis brevissimis; pedicellis flore longiusculis; sepalis 4-5, extus 
pilosis; petalo glabro : racemis $ axillaribus, solitariis, spicatis, 
tomentosis ; bracteis ovatis, acutis, breviter petiolulatis, subtus 
tomentosis, marginibus aureo lanatis; floribus in axillulis 
7-8, fasciculatis, pedicellatis ; drupis parvulis, hirsutis. — In 
Peru, Nova Granada, et Brasilia : v. s. in herb. DC. ^ k, % , 
Cucliero,Peru (Pavon) ; in herb. Hook. $ , Ibague,Nov. Granada 
(Holton, 668) ; $ , Minas Geraes (Claussen). 
This species differs from the preceding in its more deeply 
cordate leaves(which have a peculiarly lurid aspect), pale immersed 
nerves, and light or golden woolly margins. The leaves are 
2;f-2| inches long, 2-2^ inches broad, on a petiole H-lf inch 
long, inserted 2-4 lines within the margin of the basal sinus, 
which is 2-3 lines deep. Each axil bears one, or often three 
panicles on a peduncle 3 lines long, with two branches 2 lines 
long, each again divided into two others 3 lines long, crowded 
with numerous pedicellated flowers; in the same axil, or sometimes 
solitary in the axil, there is a raceme-like panicle, with a rachis 
4 inches long, bearing at intervals of 6-8 lines an orbicular bract 
2 lines in diam., sometimes almost obsolete, and a short coryfli- 
bulose panicle like those in the main axils. The ? raceme, 
2^ inches long, is furnished with several bracts, which are orbicular, 
cuspidated, and petiolulated, 2-3 lines in diam., and 4 lines 
apart ; the sepal is spathulately oblong, pilose, reflected, the petal 
being erect, orbicular, fleshy, and glabrous ; the ovary and pedicel 
are densely pilose. 
** Folia subpeltata; plantse scandentes. 
13. Cissampelos Benthamiana, nob. ; — Cissampelos acuminata, 
Benth. [non DC.) in PI. Hartw. 445 ; Walp. Rep. i. 97 ; — 
C. Pareira, Eichl. {non Linn.) 1. c. p. 189; — ramulis striatis, 
subpuberulis ; foliis subpeltatis, imo retuso-truncatis, in cj 
oblongis, e medio sursum gradatim attenuatis, valde acumi- 
natis, acutis et cuspidato-mucronatis (in $ deltoideis, apice 
obtusis et mucronatis), 7-nerviis, supra glabris, vel sparse 
pilosis, subtus pallidioiibus ec velutino pubescentibus, mar- 
ginibus ciliato-pilosis ; petiolo gracili, folii fere longitudine. 
