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species, which differs in its more glabrous habit, its more tri- 
angular leaves, with more prominent and more branching ner- 
vures, a more rounded basal sinus, and stouter petioles : the 
inflorescence is different, the sepals and petals dissimilarly 
formed, and the style and stigma otherwise developed. The 
leaves are 2f inches long, 2i inches broad, with a basal sinus 
3 lines deep, which comes to a sharp point near the petiole ; 
they are of a light-green colour, of a soft texture, with the nerves 
and reticulated veins scarcely visible, with a golden fringe on 
the margin, and are covered beneath with a pale-yellow silky 
tomentum ; the petiole is 1^ inch long, and inserted I line within 
the angle of the sinus : in the $ the leaves are somewhat smaller, 
the petiole is more slender, and of the length of, or longer than, 
the limb. The ^ inflorescence assumes two forms in each axil, 
one to three panicles, dichotomously divided, about 1 inch long, 
with capillary peduncle and ramifications thickly set with yellow 
patent hairs, which give them the appearance of greater solidity; 
and these are accompanied by a young floriferous raceme-like 
branch, about 2 inches long, with somewhat distant axils, each 
furnished with an almost sessile velvety bract l-j-2 lines in 
diam., and two or three fasciculated smaller panicles, about 
^ inch long, diminishing upwards, where the flowers are aggre- 
gated in capitate heads ; the flowers are very minute and ex- 
tremely hirsute. The $ raceme is 4—5^ inches long, with rather 
distant bract-like leaflets 2-3 lines in diam., and about eight 
fasciculated flowers in each axil, upon very short pedicels ; all 
thickly hirsute, and of a golden colour : the sepal is somewhat 
lanceolate, the unguiculated petal less than half its length ; 
the ovary is about the length of the petal, extremely hirsute, 
with a thick glabrous style about a third of its length, and three 
flattened, expanded, linear, membranaceous stigmata, obtuse or 
emarginate at 'their extremity. The very hirsute drupes, not 
quite matured, are 3 lines long, 2 lines broad. 
21. Cissampelos tomentosa, DC. Syst. i. 535; Prodr. i. 101 (non 
11. B. K.) ; — C. Pareira, Eichl. {non Linn.) 1. c. p. 189; — ra- 
mulis teretibus, valde tomentosis ; folds subpeltatis, orbicu- 
laribus, imo truucatis aut leviter cordatis, apice subemar- 
ginatis et mucronatis, marginibus crenulato-undulatis, coria- 
ceis, 5-7-nerviis, supra plus minusve pubescentibus, subtus 
pallidioribus, dense ciuereo vel fiavo tomentosis; petiolo 
tomentoso, cum limbo geniculato, et illo dimidio breviore : 
paniculis axillaribus, solitariis aut geminis, petiolo vix 
longiore, 2-3-chotorae ramosis, flavido tomentosis, cum ra- 
mulo novello foliolifero et florifero racemiformi duplo longiore 
simul ortis. — In Antillis et America meridionali : v, s. in herh 
