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branches, again separating and bearing numerous closely alter- 
nate bracteolated pedicels, each with a minute flower, so that 
the whole forms a spreading corymbose head ; the $ racemes 
have a tomentose slender rachis, about 5 inches long, with axils 
2-3 lines apart ; the bracts mostly are 2 lines in diam., a few of 
the lower ones measuring 4 lines ; the pedicellated flowers are 
|-1 line long. • 
27. Cissampelos monoica, St. Hil. PI. Bras. i. 55 ; — Cissampelos 
Pareira, Eichl. {non Linn.), 1. c. p. 189; — ramulis teneribus, 
striatis, subpubescentibus ; folds subpeltatis, exacte cordi- 
formibus, lobis basalibus rotundatis, sinu obtusissimo, supra 
medium angustatis, apice obtusiusculis, 5-nerviis, supra pi- 
losiusculis, subtus puberulis; petiolo gracili, subtus pubes- 
cente, supra canaliculate et glabro, limbo fere dimidio breviore : 
racemo d‘axillari,composito, pedunculate, pubescente,bracteato; 
ramis filiformibus, bracteisque ovatis, parvis, acutis,petiolulatis, 
pubescentibus; pedicelliscapillaribus: racemo $ axillari,breviter 
pedunculate, bracteato ; rachi flexuosa, pubescente, fructifera 
folio longiore; bracteis cordatis, obtusis, longe mucronatis, 
supra glabris, subtus puberulis, imo pedicellos 5 unifloros 
pubescentes gerentibus; drupis coccineis, subpilosis, puta- 
mine generis. — In Brasilia meridionali, ad Curitiba, prov. S. 
Paulo. 
The above diagnosis, which is very incomplete, is copied from 
St. Hilaire’s account of a plant quite unknown to me. It may 
be presumed, from his description, that the male and female 
flowers are separated in distinct racemes upon the same plant, 
although he does not say so : in this respect it therefore differs 
from Cissampelos ramijlora and C. consociata, where flowers of 
both sexes are found in the same raceme. The leaves are stated 
to be 3 inches long, and of equal breadth, on a petiole 1-1^ inch 
long, inserted ^-1 line within the margin. St. Hilaire did not 
see any of the male flowers, which had all fallen away ; and of 
the female flowers only the ovaries remained. The ? raceme is 
above 4-5 inches long, with hracts 6 lines long, 7 lines broad ; 
the pedicels in fruit 2 lines long; drupes 2 lines in diam. 
28. Cissampelos myriocarpa, Tr. & PI., Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 4. xvii. 
p. 42; Cissampelos Pareira, Eichl. {non Linn.) 1. c. p. 189 ; — 
ramulis teneribus, cano tomentosis ; foliis subpeltatis, sub- 
orbieularibus vel deltoideo-ovatis, imo cordatis, apice rotun- 
datis vel obtusis, mucronulatis, 7-nerviis, supra fuscis, nitidis, 
in nervis pilosulis, subtus thalassino- vel cano-glaucis, pubes- 
centibus, nervis venisque utrinque prominulis ; petiolo tenui, 
limbo fere sequilongo, cano pubescente : racemis $ fructiferis 
