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Its internodes are 2^-2^ incbes long ; the leaves are 2^-2| inches 
long, including the very broad basal sinus 2 lines deep and 
24 inches broad, on a petiole 1^ inch long, which is inserted 
1 line within the margin. The racemiform inflorescence is 
6-9 inches long, with axils ^ inch apart, each bearing a small 
leaflet, often caducous, of a roundish deltoid shape, 3-5 lines 
long, 2-3 lines broad, with a short petiole ; each panicle is 
inch long, its peduncle being half that length, the pedicels 
f line long; the flower expanded scarcely exceeds ^ line in 
diameter. 
18. Cissampelos microcarpa, DC. Syst. i. 534; Prodr. i. 101; 
Maefad. Jam. 17 ; — Cissampelos Pareira, Eichl. [non Linn.) 
in Mart. FI. Bras. fasc. 38. 189; — ramulis teretibus, spiraliter 
sulcato-striatis, glabriusculis vel subpuberulis ; foliis sub- 
orbicularibus, imo subcordatis vel fere truncatis, in magis 
cordatis et ovatioribus, apice emarginatis et mucronulatis, 
7-nerviis, nervis rectis furcatim divisis et paulo divergentibus 
pallidis prominulis, venis reticulatis immersis, supra glabres- 
centibus vel pilis sparsis douatis, subtus flavido-opacis et pilis 
adpressis tomentosis; petiolo subtenui, supra canaliculato, 
limbo breviore aut subsequilongo, flavido tomentoso vel gla- 
briore : paniculis c? axillaribus, 3^, fasciculatis, petiolo bre- 
vioribus, composite divisis et laxe dichotomis, cum pedicello in 
dichotomiis ; pedunculo ramulisque capillaribus minime brac- 
teolatis, subpuberulis, vel a ramulo novello axillari racemum 
floriferum simulante comitatis, axillulis basalibus foliolosis et 
nudis, superioribus bracteatis et floriferis; bracteis orbiculatis, 
brevissime petiolulatis, utrinque sericeo-puberulis ; floribus in 
axillulis paucis, fasciculatis et pedicellatis ; baccis parvulis, 
sparse pilosis. — In Antillis : v. s. in herb. DC. ^ , Cuba (Ramon 
de la Sagra, 191) ; in hb. Bindley, ^ , Cuba (Wright, 22) ; m 
hb. Hook. (? & ? , Cuba (Wright, 21 & 22); , Jamaica 
(Marsh, 19); Venezuela (Fendl. 13). 
This is a species as widely distributed through the West Indies 
as Cissampelos Pareira, to which DeCandolle considered it to be 
closely allied; but it differs in its leaves being very little peltate, 
in their more tomentose covering, their shorter petioles, and its 
much smaller putamen. From C. heterophylla, a native of the 
same regions, it may be recognized by its less peltate and more 
tomentose leaves, with shorter petioles, and by the absence, in 
its racemes, of the very long-petioled bracts which distinguish 
that species. The leaves are 2^-3| inches long, 2-3 inches 
broad, with a basal sinus 1-2 lines deep, on a petiole 1^-2 inches 
long, inserted ^ line within the margin of the sinus. The 
panicles are f-lj inch long, broadly and laxly spread; the 
