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CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOTANY. 
raceme-like branch which often accompanies them is about 
4| inches long, the three lower axils at intervals of | inch, bear- 
ing a leaflet about ^ inch in diam., the upper axils being closer 
and generally bractless or with a minute bracteole. The ? ra- 
cemes vary in length, having generally one or two flowerless 
leaflets near the base, |-1^ inch in diam., on a petiole of half 
that length ; heyond them the bracts are orbicular, nearly sessile, 
2 lines apart, 3 lines in diam., bearing in their axils one to three 
pedicellated drupes, the putamen being H line long and 1 line 
broad. 
19. Cissampelos Hankeana, Presl, Reliq. Hsenk. ii. 80; Walp. 
Rep. i. 97 ; — Cissampelos ovalifolia, Eichl. {non DC.) in Mart. 
FI. Bras. fasc. 38. 189; — ramulis teretibus, striatis, dense 
pubescentibus ; foliis subpeltatis, subdeltoideo - orbiculatis, 
profunde cordatis, lobis basalibus rotundatis, sinu subacuto, 
sursum gradatim angustioribus, apice canaliculato-recurvo 
subacutis et mucronatis, 7-9-nerviis, chartaceis, supra viridi- 
bus, nitentibus et glabrioribus, vel opacioribus et sparse pilosis, 
nervis flavidis, prominulis, venis reticulatis, marginibus sub- 
revolutis et sericeo ciliatis, subtus flavidis vel umbrino-glaucis, 
prsesertim in nervis sericeo tomentosis ; petiolo subvalido, 
ssepe limbo longiore, striatello, flavo tomentoso, imo tumidulo 
et subito incurvo : paniculis ^ 3, axillaribus, fasciculatis, pe- 
tiolo subsequilongis, flavido tomentosis, mox a basi alternatim 
ramosis; z’amis longiusculis, flexuoso-divaricatis ; ramulos 
plures umbellatim gerentibus, radiis apice capitulis globosis 
3-4 pedunculatis munitis : racemis $ binis aut solitariis, spi- 
catim racemiformibus, ferrugineo tomentosis, axillulis appr’oxi- 
matis, bracteatis ; bracteis orbiculatis, imbricatis, complicatis, 
breviter petiolulatis ; floribus circiter 7, pedicellatis, in axillulis 
fasciculatis ; sepalo oblongo, extus hirsuto ; petalo orbiculari 
illo dimidio breviore, extus piloso ; ovario hirsutissimo ; drupis 
parvis, pilosis. — In Peruvia et Ecuador : v. s. in herb. De Bois- 
sier, (? & ? , Cuchero (Pavon, sub nom. C. cordatre, R. & P.) 
This is a plant agreeing with Presl’s description in all respects 
except in the colour of the tomentum, which is always a variable 
feature ; it offers some approach to C. microcarpa, especially in 
the small size of the drupes, but differs in the character of its 
leaves and inflorescence. The internodes are 1^-2^ inches long; 
the leaves are 3^3| inches long, 3-3^ inches broad, with the 
sides roundly converging towards an acute and somewhat recurved 
apex, a narrow basal sinus 6 lines deep, and a petiole 2-2f inches 
long, inserted | line within the margin. The ^ panicles are 
2-2| inches long, bare for about ^ inch at base, thence branch- 
ing alternately, the branches simple or umbellately divided into 
