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CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOTANY. 
fasciculatis donatis; bracteis suborbicularibus, gradatim uii- 
noribus, utrinque puberulis, subtus pallidioribus, longiuscule 
petiolulatis ; pedunculis 2-3-chotomis, ramulis apice pedicellis 
plurimis subumbellatim congestis munitis : racemis $ axillari- 
bus, solitariis aut binis, petiolo sequilongis vel 2-plo exceden- 
tibus, pubescentibus ; rachi tenuissiina, valde flexuosa; brac- 
teis parvis, remotis, orbicularibus, petiolulatis; floi’ibus 8-10, 
in axillis fasciculatis, pedicellatis ; sepalo oblongo, membra- 
naceo, extus longe piloso; petalo cuneato-reniformi, dimidio 
longitudinis, glabro, opaco ; ovario piloso ; drupis parvis, 
pilosis. — In Antillis et Mexico : v. s. in herb, meo, $ , Jamaica 
(Heward) ; in herb. Hook. (J, Jamaica (Distan); $, Trinidad 
(Schach). 
These plants agree with DeCandolle’s description of the type 
from San Bias, a locality on nearly the same parallel of latitude. 
The internodes are 2^ inches long, the leaves 2^-2| inches long, 
inches broad, with a basal sinus 2 lines deep, on a petiole 
2 inches long, .which is inserted 1^ line within the margin of the 
sinus. The axillary floriferous branch is 5 inches long ; its lower 
axils, which are 6 lines apart, approach gradually to a distance of 
3 lines ; the lower bracts, 7 lines in diam., have a petiolule 6 lines 
long, the upper ones are gradually lessened to a diameter of 31ines; 
the peduncles are 3-4 lines long, their branches, ] -2 lines long, 
with pedicels line long. The $ racemes are 2|-4 inches 
long ; the bracts, ^ inch apart, are 2-3 lines in diameter ; the 
drupes are 2 lines long. 
15. Cissampelos scutigera, Tr. & PI. Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 4. xvii. 
p. 42; — C. Pareira, Eichl. {non Linn.) 1. c. p. 189; — foliis 
peltatis, cordato-ovatis, mucronulatis, rigide chartaceis, 7- 
nerviis, supra puberulis, subtus (sicut caulis inflorescentiaque) 
tomento griseo indutis : paniculis ^ geminis, folio ssepius lon- 
gioribus, bracteatis ; bracteis petiolatis, ovatis, acutis, saepe in 
folium abeuntibus, cymulis partialibus 2-5, fasciculatis, pe- 
dunculatis, bractea longioribus; pedicellis pro genere longius- 
culis, floribusque minutis, extus pilosulis, in $ foliis similibus, 
petiolo tenui, limbo sequilongo, puberulo : racemis $ geminis, 
axillaribus, petiolum fere aequantibus ; bracteis orbicularibus, 
subimbricatis. — In Nova Granada et isth. Panama; ^ , Que- 
brada Grande Bogota (Triana) : v. s. in herb. Hook. $ , Pa- 
nama (Hayes, 186). 
Not having seen the typical plant described by MM. Triana 
and Plauchon, I have copied their diagnosis verbatim, and have 
ventured to regard the plant from Panama as the female of 
the same, because it agrees with it in the character of its leaves 
