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the petiole more slender and as long as the blade. In Pdppig’s 
specimen the panicles spring from the axils of the larger leaves; 
in Spruce^s they are on a separate and younger branch, where 
the young leaves are only 1-1^ inch in diameter; in both cases 
the panicles are covered with a reddish-yellow villosity ; they 
are 1-1 J inch long, much branched and spreading, the ultimate 
pedicels being 1^ line long; the sepals are ^ line long, very 
pilose; the petal is ^ line in diameter, much depressed, and 
slightly hairy outside. The ? raceme is 5 inches long; the 
bracts 6-9 lines in diam., 2-3 lines apart ; the drupes, covered 
with reddish hairs, are 2 lines in diam., supported on a pedicel 
of the same length. 
V’^ar. biloha-, — foliis majusculis, orbiculatis, imo sinu angusto 
profundissime cordatis, lobis basalibus valde rotundis, supra 
nitidis, sub lente pilosulis, subtus tomentosis ; petiolo limbo 
aequilongo aut longiore, imo tumidulo subito refracto : ra- 
cemo e ramulo novello, petiolo aequilongo, axillulis bractea 
parva cymulisque 3 brevibus donatis ; pedunculis e ramis 
confertis, apice saepius pseudo-umbellatis : — v. s. in herb. De 
Boissier et Hook, (ex hb. Pavon), J', Guayaquil (Pavon). 
A very distinct variety, which with many botanists, and per- 
haps with reason, would claim specific rank, owing to its deeply 
cleft leaves, their longer petiole, and its inflorescence. 
37. Cissampelos consociata, nob. ; — monoica, ramulis teretibus, 
striatis, subpuberulis ; foliis fere palatis, cordato-orbicularibus, 
apicem versus angustatis, apice obtusis et mucronulatis, 7- 
nerviis, supra viridibus, nervis venisque pallidis, glabris, sub- 
tus sordide glaucis, puberulis; petiolo tenui, limbo paulo 
breviore, glabro, apice pubescente : racerao c? et $ supra-axil- 
lari, tomentoso, folio paulo longiore ; rachi subtenui, flexuosa, 
subimbricatim bracteata; bracteis suborbicularibus, subcor- 
datis, apice aristato-mucronatis, subglabris ; petiolulo brevis- 
simo, piloso; axillulis superioribus paniculaS(^4 racemosas vix 
pilosas bractea paulo longiores gerentibus, inferioribus flores 
$ 5 pedicellatos fasciculatos emittentibus ; pedicellis petio- 
lulo vix longioribus, pilosulis ; in sepalis 4, ovalibus, pallidis, 
extus pilosis ; petalo cyathiformi, glabro : in $ sepalo late ob- 
longo, extus pubescente; petalo orbicular!, dimidio breviore, 
glabro ; ovario piloso ; stylo longiusculo, subtenui, stigmati- 
bus reflexis. — In Antillis : v. s. in he'rb. Hook. J'Sc $ , Jamaica 
(Wilson). 
This plant much resembles the preceding in the size and shape 
of its leaves and the mode of insertion of the petiole, but they 
are more cordate ; the form of its inflorescence is very difiFerent. 
