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racemis ? folio longioribus, minute bracteatis ; bracteis flavo- 
sericeis. inferioribus petiolatis ; tloribus 4-6, fasciculatis ; se- 
palo cuneato-oblongo, ovario longiore, petalum subsessile 
cifneato-quadratum concaviusculum intus glabrum superante; 
stigmate sessili, 3-partito ; fructu orbiculato, compresso, 
parvo, seriatim tuberculato, parce puberulo. — In Ecuador ad 
La Mesa in Andibus Bogotensibus : v. s. in herb. DC. ^ , Chi- 
quitos Bolivia (D’Orbigny, 774), Brasil. (Claussen); in herb. 
Hook., Ecuador, La Paila (Horton). 
This species, by the above authorities, is said to differ from 
others in the very small size of its bracts — a feature which I have 
shown to occur frequently. They found only the $ plant ; but its 
tloral characters, as above described, are those of ordinary occur- 
rence. Its leaves are stated to be from 9^ to 13 lines long 
(2-3 centims.), its bracts scarcely 1 line long (2 millims.), its 
drupe 1^ line in diam. (3 millims.). As D’Orbigny’s plant from 
Bolivia, Claussen’s from Brazil, and Horton’s from Ecuador 
agree with the short diagnosis of MM. Triana and Planchon, I 
have referred all of them to this species; they are, however, all 
(^specimens. The branches are very slender, the axils more or 
less approximated, the leaves in all suborbicular, subcordate, 
emarginate, and mucronate, puberulous above, cinereo-glaucous 
and pubescent below, 9^-18 lines long, 12-22 lines broad, with a 
basal sinus 1-2 lines deep, the petiole 4-7 lines long, being inserted 
^-1 line within the margin : they have from two to five short 
panicles fasciculated in each axil, often accompanied by a longer 
fioriferous raceme ; the former are about 6 lines long, pilose, on a 
capillary peduncle dichotomously divided, with a pedicel in each 
dichotomy; the flowering branch, which looks like a female 
raceme, is 1| inch long, with a somewhat flexuose rachis, having 
orbicular bracts' 1-2 lines in diara., the axils about the same 
distance apart, bearing the nascent panicles. Horton’s specimen, 
from nearly the same locality as the typical plant, is covered with 
short cinereous tomentum, with almost orbicular and obsoletely 
cordate leaves, 9-1 4 lines in diam., on a petiole 6-9 lines long. 
24. Cissampelos Guayaquilensis, H.B. K. v. 67; — Cissampelos 
Pareira, Eichl. [non Linn) 1. c. 189 ; — graveolens, ramis teneri- 
bus, striatis, glabris, junioribus cano tomentosis; folds sub- 
peltatis, suborbicularibus, imo truncatis aut paulo cordatis, 
apice profunde emarginatis et mucronatis, 5-7-nerviis, mem- 
branaceis, supra parce puberulis, subtus cinereo-glaucis et 
subpubescentibus, marginibus pilis flavidis dense ciliatis ; 
petiolo tenui, subtomentoso, limbo sequilongo : paniculis ^ 
axillaribus, 2-3, fasciculatis, trichotome divisis, pedunculo 
ramisque capillaribus pilosis ; floribus capitato-approximatis : 
