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1^-2^ inches long. The ^ raceme is about 8 inches long, with 
a filiform rachis, which, at distances of 4 inch, throws out a 
minute bract and three or four fasciculated cymules 4-6 lines 
long, dichotomously divided and minutely bracteolated. The 
? racemes are 3-4^ inches long, wanting the usual foliiform 
bracts, as in all the other specimens the drupes are 4 lines long. 
I have also placed in the same species C. fasciculata, Bth., the 
leaves of which and male racemes agree in all respects with 
those of Spruce^s plant from Obidos. 
34. Cissarnpelos ramiflora, nob. ; — Cissampelos andromorpha, 
Eichl. {non DC.) in Martins FI. Bras. fasc. 38. p. 195, t. 44. 
fig. 3; — ramis subangulatis, sulcatis, subglabris; ramulis 
tlexuosis, striatis, subpuberulis ; foliis obsolete peltatis aut 
fere palatis, deltoideo-ovatis, imo vix cordatis, vel potius circa 
petiolum subito plus minusve profuude bisinuatis, apice ssepe 
valde acutis et cuspidato-mucronatis, 5-nerviis nervoque 
marginali revoluto, utrinque sub lente puberulis, supra opace 
viridibus, transversim venosis et reticulatis, subtus flavescenti- 
glaucis, nervis tenuibus, paulo prominulis; petiolo tenui, 
limbo paulo breviore, striato, puberulo : racemis supra- 
axillaribus, solitariis vel geminis, folio 2-3-plo longioribus, 
ebracteatis, rachi gracilissima, subpubescente, axillulis sub- 
remotis, bracteola minima acuta tomentosa cymulisque 3 
fasciculatis munitis; vel alternatim ramosis, ramis longius- 
culis distantibus, imo minime bracteolatis, axillulis approxi- 
matis, bracteola eymulisque 3 brevibus donatis ; omnium pe- 
dunculo ramulisque capillaribus, subpilosis ; pedicellis imo 
bracteolatis, erebre spicatis, pedicellis floribusque glabris ; 
sepalis obovatis, glanduloso-pictis ; petalo tui’binato : racemis 
$ monoicis, supra-axillaribus, petiolum subsequantibus, flavido 
puberulis, alternatim ramosis ; ramis divaricatis, imo bractea 
parva foliiformi, superne bracteolis linearibus aeutis decres- 
centibus munitis, axillulis flores pedicellatos 4 et 2 ? fasci- 
culatos gerentibus bracteolaque minima munitis : in sepalis 
4, pilosis ; petalo glabro, poculiformi, ssepe in lacinias 2-3-4 
inciso ; anthera 4-loba : in ? sepalo piloso, bracteolis 3 con- 
similibus eincto •, petalo latissimo, glabro, saspius in lacinias 
2-3-4 plus minusve profunde inciso; ovario dorso piloso, 
paulo gibbo. — In Brasilia septentrionali : v. s. in herb, variis 
Rio Casiquiare (Spruce, 3165), prope Panure, Rio 
Uaiipes (Spruce, 2463) ; cum fl. monoic. San Gabriel, Rio 
Negro (Spruce, 2166). 
I cannot agree with Dr. Eichler in referring the above plants 
to C. andromorpha, DC. ; for they do not accord either with 
Turpin^s drawing of its $ inflorescence or with DeCandolle's 
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