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CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOTANY. 
in axillis, 2-4, folio longioribus, loiige divaricatim ramosis, 
ramis bracteola parva ovata petiolulata floribusque 4-10 pedi- 
cellatis donatis ; pedicellis fertilium mox 6-plo longioribus ; 
ovario piloso ; stylo brevissimo ; stigmate breviter 3-dentato ; 
drupis parvis, subglobosis, adpresse pilosis. — In Ecuador : v. s. 
in herb. Hook., Las Mesitas (Triana). 
This is a very distinct species, distinguished by the peculiarly 
expanded growth of its leafless fructiferous racemes and its 
copious drupes : in these respects it differs from Cissampelos 
microcarpa, which it resembles in the shape and size of its leaves; 
its petiole is, however, much longer. In the flowerless specimen 
the leaves are ovate, tapering gradually from the middle ; in the 
floriferous branches they are nearly orbicular; the internodes 
are 2-2^ inches long ; the leaves are 2^-4 inches long, 3-3^ 
inches broad, ^with a basal sinus 2-3 lines deep, on a slender 
petiole 2-2^ inches long, inserted 1 line within the margin 
of the sinus. The fructiferous racemes are 2-4 inches long, 
spreading to a breadth of 2 or 3 inches, and interlacing with 
each other, forming thus an expanding drupiferous network ; 
the lateral branches are from I to 2^ inches in length, w'ith 
leafless axils about 3 lines apart, from each of which a tomentose 
bract half a line long, and six to ten pedicellated flowers arise : 
the pedicels of these are only ^ line long; and seldom more than 
tv/o or four of these .flowers are fertilized, while sometimes as 
many as eight are matured, when the pedicels grow to a length 
of 2 lines, each supporting a nearly glabrous drupe 1-^ line in 
diameter, thus giving an umbellate appearance to some of the 
axils of the raceme. 
29. Cissampelos auriculata, nob.; — ramulis striatis, glabris ; folds 
subpeltatis, suborbicularibus vel obovatis, imo sinu profundis- 
simo et angusto cordatis, lobis basalibus rotundatis, apicem 
versus angustioribus, obtusis, emarginatis et mucronulatis, 
9-nerviis, supra in nervis sub lente pilosulis, subtus pallide 
glaucis, subpruinosis et in nervis pubescentibus ; petiolo limbo 
dimidio breviore, retrorsum puberulo : panicula tS axillari, pe- 
tiolum sequante, laxe et divaricatim divisa, 2-3-chotoma, pilo- 
sula, bracteis minimis, setaceis ; ramis ultimis spicatim pedi- 
cellatis, simulque cum ramulo novello florifero racemiformi, 
folio vix longiore ; rachi tomentosa; axillis inferioribus bractea 
parva foliiformi, superioribus bracteola donatis; sepalis 4, 
cuneato ovatis, pallide membranaceis, extus pilosis ; petalo 
cyathiformi, glabro, 4-plicato ; anthera 4-loba : racemis $ 
binis, axillaribus, folium vix superantibus, ramuliformibus, 
pubescentibus ; bracteis cordato-orbicularibus, petiolulatis, 
subremotis ; floribus in axillis, 6, fasciculatis ; sepalo spathu- 
