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and is from the same region. In the above diagnosis of the 
inflorescence, the panicles there described appear to be young 
floriferous branches, whose axils, with petiolated foliiform bracts, 
produce from two to five fasciculated “ cymules,” the peduncles 
of which are longer than the bracts, which are ^ inch (4 millim.) 
long. They state that the species differs from C. Pareira in 
the more oval and acute form of its leaves, and that it approaches 
their C. myriocarpa in general appearance. In the plant which 
I have conjectured to be the $ of the same species, the branch 
is very slender, with axils about 2 inches apart ; the leaves 
slightly cordate at base, obtuse or somewhat acute and mucro- 
nated at the apex, with a few long adpressed hairs above, cano- 
glaucous and puberulous below, 2-2;^ inches long, lf-2 inches 
broad, with a broad basal sinus 1 line deep, on a very slender 
petiole 2 inches long, which is inserted 1^ line within the mar- 
gin of the sinus. The ? racemes are l|-2^ inches long, with 
orbicular subimbricate bracts, 2 lines in diam., which diminish 
upward to half that size. 
16. Cissampelos littoralis, St. Hil. FI. Bras. i. 54; St. Hil. & Tul. 
Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 2. xvii. 136 ; — C. Pareira, Eichl. {non Linn.) 
in Mart. FI. jBrfls. fasc. 38. 189; — ramulis teneribus, striatis, 
retrorsum pubescentibus; foliisparumpeltatis,suborbiculai’ibus, 
vel subdeltoideis, imo cordatis, apicem versus acutiusculis aut 
rotundato-obtusis, emarginatis et mucronatis, margine sub- 
revoluto, 5-7-nerviis, supra nitidiusculis, in nervis flavidis 
venisque reticulatis subprominulis sparse pilosis, subtus pal- 
lidioribus, glaucis, cinereo pubescentibus ; petiolo limbo fere 
triple breviore, apice paulo incrassato, imo retorto, patentis- 
sime et dense piloso : racemo ^ axillari, rachi filiformi, folio 
duplo longiore, patentim flavido pilosa, e basi sursum flori- 
fera, axillulis remotiusculis, rarius bractea parva orbiculata, 
saepius bracteola minima cymulisque 2-3 fasciculatis munitis; 
pedunculo capillari, piloso, bis dichotome diviso, cum pedi- 
cello in dichotomiis ; floribus capitato-cymosis, minutis ; 
sepalis spathulato-oblongis petaloque cyathiformi 4-sulcato 
extus hispido-pilosis : racemis $ axillaribus, geminis vel soli- 
tariis, imo nudis, axillulis remotiusculis, bractea parva orbi- 
culari petiolulata floribusque pedicellatis munitis ;’ sepalo ob- 
longo, extus piloso ; petalo dimidio breviore, reniformi, imo 
unguiculato, apice retuso, glabro ; ovario piloso ; stylo brevi ; 
stigmatibus 3, late linearibus, obtusis, subdivaricatis. — In 
Brasilia ; v. s. in herb, meo,^ , prov. Piauhy (Gardner, 2475) ; 
in herb. Hook, ex herb. Imp. Vindob. et ? , Brasilia 
(No. 1302). 
This species differs from C. gracilis in its more orbicular. 
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