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CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOTANY. 
orbicularibus, imo truncatis aut obsolete cordatis, apice ob- 
tusiusculis, emarginatis, raucronatis, sursum gradatim minori- 
bus et acutioribus, coriaeeis, 7-nerviis, utrinque densissime 
tomentosis, supra pilis flavidis, subtus fulvis vel canescenti- 
bus, marginibus creberrime fimbriato-ciliatis et rufescentibus; 
petiolo brevissirao, crasso, tomentoso, limbo 8-plo breviore : 
paniculis ^ axillaribus, 2-3, fasciculatis, brevissimis, flavido 
pilosis, pedunculo petiolo vix longiore; floribus numerosis, 
corymbosis, in capitulum approximatis ; sepalis spathulato- 
ovatis, extus villosis ; petalo cyathifonni, glabro : iniiores- 
centia $ e ramis terminalibus racemiformi; floribus 6, pedi- 
cellatis, in axillis foliorum superiorum braeteiformium fasci- 
culatis •, ovario villosissimo. — In America intertropica : v. s. 
Si, ^ in herb. DeCandolle. 
It is now more than twelve years since I saw specimens of 
both sexes, I think from the herbarium of Prof. De Candolle or 
M. de Boissier, who then most kindly sent for my inspection all 
their Menispermaceous plants. I have preserved the drawings 
of these plants and the characters then observed ; in this in- 
stance, however, the names of the locality and collector were 
omitted to be noted ; but, if my memory does not fail, they were 
sent by Goudot either from New Granada or Venezuela. The 
root in both sexes is knotty and tuberculose : in the ^ plant it 
throws out two erect stems 15-18 inches high, 2 lines thick, 
and flexuose at their extremity ; the ? plant altogether is not 
more than 8 inches high ; the main stem, 2 lines thick, at the 
height of 4 or 5 inches emits three axillary erect branches 
3—4 inches long. In the ^ plant the axils are I inch apart ; the 
extremely velvety leaves are 2-2^ inches long, If-lg inch 
broad, on a petiole 2 lines long; these gradually diminish in 
size upwards till they are not more than 4 lines in diameter, 
and all are floriferous ; the panicles are only 3 or 5 lines long. 
In the $ plant the lower leaves are thi-ee or four about the 
origin of the floriferous branches; they are 15-18 lines long, 
16-20 lines broad, on a petiole of 2 lines; and the branches have 
each a leaf or two of similar size at their base, whence they be- 
come rapidly smaller, at intervals of ^ of an inch, assuming the 
appearance of imbricated orbicular and nearly sessile velvety 
bracts from 6 to 3 lines in diameter, all very tomentose. 
This species is extremely different from C. vestita, and distinct 
from all others. 
41. Cissampelos ovalifolia, DC. Syst. i. 537; Prodr. i. 102; 
St. Hil. PI. Us. tab. 34; PI. Bras. i. 51 ; Eichl. (in parte) in 
Mart. FI. Bras. 1. c. 187 ; — Cissampelos subtriangularis ?, St. 
Hil. 1. c. 52; Echites dubia, Vell.Fl.Flum. 114. iii. tab. 50; — 
