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shortness of its racemes — characters which, according toPlanchon, 
entitle it to rank as a distinct species. It approaches C. argentea 
in the size and form of its leaves, but differs in its much thicker 
branches, in its coriaceous (not membranaceous) leaves, in their 
pubescence, their much shorter and stouter petiole, and in the 
want of the large leaf-like bracts in its cymose panicles. The 
axils in Gardner’s specimens are 1^ inch apart, the very orbicular 
velvety leaves are l|-2g- inches long, including the very narrow 
basal sinus 3-4 lines deep ; they are 1^-2^ inches broad, on a 
stout petiole only 3-8 lines long, which is inserted 1 line within 
the margin of the sinus. The ^ axillary inflorescence, on a 
short stout rachis, is |-1 inch long, intricately spreading to 
about the same breadth, throwing out several closely alternate 
ramifications, commencing 3 or 4 lines from the base, which are 
immediately divided repeatedly, the whole forming a large irre- 
gular capitate head of innumerable minute flowers ; the petals 
are obovate, and pilose outside. In M. Triana’s ? plant it is 
stated that the leaves are 9^-13 lines (2-3 centims.) long; its 
floral bracteoles 1 line (2 millims.) long, its drupe 1^ line 
(3 millims.) in diameter. 
33. Cissampelos andromorpha, DC. (non Eichl.) Syst. i. 539 ; 
Prodr. i. 102 ; Deless. Icon. i. tab. 99; — Cissampelos denudata, 
nob. in Kew Journ. Bot. iii. 115; tValp. Ann. iv. 130; — 
Cissampelos fasciculata, Benth. Bond. Journ. Bot. ii. 361 ; 
Eichl. in Mart. FI. Bras. fasc. 38. 194, tab. 46; — Cissampelos 
Caapeba, Veil, {non Linn.) FI. Flum. x. tab. 139; — alte scan- 
dens, ramulis inferioribus aphyllis, ssepe longe radicantibus, 
sulcato-striatis, glabris, nodis floriferis ; superioribus foliiferis, 
retrorsum ferrugineo pubescentibus ; foliis fere palatis, del- 
toideo-orbiculatis vel ovatis, basi truncatis aut bisinuatis, vel 
cordatis, apice obtuse rotundatis, emarginatis et mucronatis, 
marginibus ciliatis, submembranaceis, 7-nerviis, supra fusco- 
opacis, subpuberulis, subtus pallidioribus, thalassino- vel 
brunneo-glaucis, puberulis, praesertim in nervis tenuibus 
saepe flexuosis et paulo prominulis; petiolo tenui, elongato, 
striato, limbo aequilongo vel longiore, cinei’eo pubescente : 
racemis cJ in ramis aphyllis annotinis pluribus fasciculatis, in 
ramulis axillaribus et solitariis vel pluribus; rachi elongata, 
tomentosa, ebracteata, folium multo excedente ; axillis sparsis, 
singulis bracteolam minimam tomentosam cymulasque 3 fasci- 
culatas proferentibus ; pedunculo capillari,puberulo,alternatim 
brevissime ramoso ; ramis minime bracteolatis, flores paucos 
pedicellatos spicatim gerentibus; sepalis cuneato oblongis, 
saepius glabris; petalo turbinato-campanulato, 4-suleato ; 
anthera 4-loba : racemis ? in axillis aphyllis annotinis 2-5 
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