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in the ? , where they are truncated at base, there is a sinus 
on each side of the petiole 1-lj line deep ; the very slender 
petiole is 3|— 3^ inches long. The three fnsciculated panicles 
are 4 lines long ; the peduncle, 3 lines long, bears on its summit 
three subulate tomentose bracteoles ^ line long, and about twelve 
pedicels, each 1 line long, thus forming an umbel of very minute 
flowers. The $ raceme issues from a hairy tuft about a line 
above the insertion of the petiole, and is l^-'2 inches long, with 
many short divaricate ramifications 3-4 lines apart and 3-4 lines 
long, quite deficient of the ordinary leafy bracts : these branch- 
lets bear from three to six pedicellated flowers, the ovary being 
adpressedly pilose ; the raceme is altogether pubescent. 
*** Folia palata aut subpalata; plantae scandentes. 
36. Cissampelos Caapeba, Linn. Sp. 1473 ; Willd. Sp. iv. 863 ; 
DC. Syst. i. 536; Frodr. i. 101; Plum. Amer. i. 56, tab. 67. 
fig. 2 (non Veil.) ; — Cissampelos eriocarpa, Tr. ^ PL Ann. Sc. 
Nat. 4 ser. xvii. 40 ; — Cissampelos Pareira, Hook. ^ Th. [non 
Linn.) FI. Ind. i. 198 ; Eichl. [non Linn.) in Mart. FI. Bras. 
/. c. 188; — ramulis teretibus, torto-striatis, pilis patentibus 
rufulis aut ochraceis vestitis ; folds palatis aut obsolete pel- 
tatis, suborbicularibus, basi sinu ssepe angusto profunde 
cordatis, apice emarginato-rotundis, vel paulo angustioribus, 
mucronatis, marginibus subrevolutis, 7-9-nerviis, crassius- 
culis, supra subnitidis, sparse pilosulis, subtus pallidioribus, 
crebre ochraceo pubescentibus ; petiolo limbo fere sequilongo 
vel longiore, valido, imo torto et tumidulo, summo longe in- 
crassato, pilis flavidis aut rufulis patentibus dense piloso : 
paniculis ^ axillaribus, 2-3 fasciculatis, petiolo 3-4-plo bre- 
vioribus aut sequilongis, patentim pubescentibus, ramis sub- 
umbellatis 3-4, iterum divisis, hinc floribus dense corymbosis; 
cum altera e ramulo novello simul orta comitatis, petiolo 
aequilonga, spicatim ramosa, undique tomentosa, axillulis 
approximatis, bractea parva paniculisque 2 consimilibus sed 
multo brevioribus munitis, undique tomentosis, floribus nu- 
merosis, minutis, corymbosis, in capitulum aggregatis ; sepalis 
oblongis, vix acutis, carnosulis, extus pilosis; petalo depresse 
cyathiformi, lineis guttatis radiatim picto, fere glabro ; an- 
thera 4-loba, subinclusa : racemo ? axillari, folio multo lon- 
giore, imbricatim bracteato, pubescente ; bracteis reniformi- 
orbiculatis, brevissime petiolulatis, imo 6-10-floris ; pedicellis 
brevibus, fasciculatis ; ovario villoso ; drupis longiuscule pedi- 
cellatis, ochraceo vel rufo pilosis. — In Antillis et America 
intertropica : v. s. in herb. DC. ^ , Peru (Pbppig, 1293) ; in 
hb. Hook. J , Tarapota (Spruce, 4409) ; Chonana, Guayaquil 
