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five to eight spreading curved rays ^ inch long, and again 
branching into three or four capitate heads of many minute 
aggregated flowers ; sepals oblong, acute at both ends ; petal 
very depressed, subfleshy, smaller than the nearly sessile 4-lobed 
anther, sparsely pilose outside : the whole densely hispido-tomen- 
tose. The $ raceme is 3 inches long, its many orbicular folded 
bracts, on short petiolules, are 3 lines in diam., acute at the apex; 
at the origin of each about five fasciculated pedicels arise, 1 line 
long, each bearing a single flower ; the sepal is 1 line long, the 
petal is half that length ; the gibbous ovary is 1 line long and 
densely hirsute ; the drupe is black, orbicular, compressed, pilose, 
1^ line in diameter. 
20. Cissampelos hirsutissima, Presl, Reliq. Haenk. ii. 80; Walp. 
Ann. i. 97 ; — Cissampelos tomentosa, H.B.K. [non DC.) v. 68; 
— Cissampelos ovalifolia, Diehl, [non DC.) in Mart. FI. Bras. 
fasc. 38. 187 ; — ramulis pilis patentibus, rigidulis, obscure 
flavidis densissime hirsutulis ; folds suborbicularibus, vix pel- 
tatis, imo sinu acuto cordatis, apice obtusissimis, subemar- 
ginatis et mucronulatis, submembranaceis, 5-nerviis, supra 
iaete viridibus, pilis adpressis sericeo-pilosis (in junioribus 
aureo velutinis), subtus flavo tomentosis, nervis aureis, mar- 
ginibus dense aureo lanatis ; petiolo imo apieeque incrassato, 
pilis longis patentibus aureis dense hirsuto-tomentoso, limbo 
breviore, in ? longiore et tenuiore : paniculis geminis, axil- 
laribus, petiolo brevioribus, dense aureo pilosis, dichotome 
ramosis cum pedicello in dichotomiis, ramis ultimis globose 
capitatis, ssepius racemo e ramulo novello comitatis, axillulis 
bractea parva foliiformi cymulisque 2-3 fasciculatis brevibus 
donatis, omnibus densissime hirsutulis ; floribus subcapitatis, 
minutis; sepalis spathulato-lanceolatis, extus longe hirsutis ; 
petalo cyathiformi, glabro : racemo $ axillari, folio longiore, 
subimbricatim bracteato, aureo tomentoso; bracteis orbiculatis, 
parvis, fere sessilibus, flores pedicellatos circiter 8 fasciculatos 
celantibus; sepalo oblongo, utrinque attenuate, petaloque di- 
midio breviore transversim ovato 2-nervi imo breviter unguicu- 
lato extus hirsutis; ovario hirsute; stigmatibus latis,membrana- 
ceis; drupis hirsuto-tomentosis, bracteas sequantibus. — In Pe- 
ruvia et Ecuador : v. s. in herb. DC. et Boissier, & ? , Icanozo, 
Rio Magdalena (Goudor) ; in hb. DeBoiss. $ , Peru (Pavon). 
This species is remarkable for the golden-yellow dense hairy 
covering with which the whole plant is invested. Goudot’s spe- 
cimens from the province of Bogota agree with those of Pavon 
from Peru, and both accord with the ample description by Presl 
of Haenk’s plant from Huanuco in Central Peru, where it is well 
known that Pavon made large collections. It approaches that 
