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ing longer, the two or three lower axils having young petiolated 
leaflets 2-9 lines broad, while the upper ones have bracts 1 line 
long ; in each axil three short panicles, about 3 lines long, are 
fasciculated. St. Hilaire describes the ? plant only, and on 
comparing it with the original typical plant collected in Brazil 
by Desfontaines, he found they were identical, and equally corre- 
sponded with DeCandolle^s description. What St. Hilaire de- 
scribes as a $ raceme is, in fact, a young floriferous -branch, the 
inferior ramifications of which, each issuing from a leaflet, con- 
sist of $ racemes in a young stage of growth ; in this respect it 
is analogous to the ^ inflorescence. The plant described by 
Dr. Eichler as C. tamoides is a different species, of which he 
figures the leaf and inflorescence; these correspond with other 
plants from the Amazonas region, C. ramijlora, the leaf of 
which is much larger, truncated or slightly cordate at base, not 
retusely sinuated at the sides, acuminated and acute at the apex; 
the inflorescence is also different. 
26. Cissampelos Australis, St. Hil. FI. Bras. i. 54; — Cissampelos 
Pareira, Eichl. {non Linn.) 1. c. p. 189; — ramulis teneribus, 
glabriusculis ; foliis vix peltatis, deltoideo-orbiculatis, imo 
subcordatis, sinu latissimo, infra summum ssepe retusim con- 
strictis, apice obtusulis et mucronatis, rarius emarginatis, 
coriaceis, b-nerviis, nervis extus ramosis, supra viridulis, 
opacis, glabriusculis, subtus pallidioribus et pubescentibus ; 
petiolo subtenui, striato, pilis ferrugineis retrorsis pubescente, 
limbo subsequilongo : paniculis $ axillaribus, 2 vel 3, fascicu- 
latis, petiolo brevioribus pubescentibus, pedunculis apice bre- 
viter ramosis ; ramis 4-6, approximatis, subumbellatim con- 
gestis, pedicellos plurimos alternos bracteolatos apice sub- 
umbellatim approximates gerentibus ; floribus numerosis, 
parvis, hinc corymbosis ; sepalis ovatis, subacutis, extus pi- 
losis; petalo depresso, cyathiformi, membranaceo, margine 
fere integro, glabro ; racemis $ axillaribus, solitariis vel gemi- 
nis, folio 2-3-plo longioribus, tomentosis, subremote brac- 
teatis; bracteis suborbicularibus, breviter petiolulatis utrinque 
pubescentibus; floribus in axillis, 5-7, fasciculatis ; ovario 
sericeo-piloso ; drupis parvis, pilosis. — In prov. Argentinis : 
V. s. in herb. Lindley,$, Uruguay (Tweedie) ; in herb. Hook. 
$ , Uruguay (Tweedie, 1278). 
A somewhat slender climbing plant, with distinct characters. 
Its axils are 1^-2 inches apart ; the leaves are 2-2^ inches long, 
2^-21 inches broad, with a basal sinus 2-3 lines deep, on a pe- 
tiole Ij-lf inch long, inserted 1 line within the margin of the 
sinus. The ^ panicles are |-1 inch long, on a peduncle 6-8 lines 
long, divided at its summit into very numerous, crowded, short 
