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folio brevioribus, tomentosis, imbricatim bracteatis; bracteis 
orbicularibus, mucronatis, subsessilibus, extus tomentosis ; 
floribus fasciculatis circiter 6 j ovario villosissimo; stylo glabro, 
apice breviter 3-dentato; drupis pilosis. — In Venezuela et 
Nova Granada : v. s. in herb. Hook. & $ , Tovar (Funke, 
171) ; ? , Serra Nevada de S® Martha (Purdie). 
In size and venation the leaves of the ^ plant of this species 
bear some resemblance to those of C. ovalifolia, especially in 
their peculiar nervation ; but they differ in their more rhombic 
form, their more attenuated base, and their stout cuspidate apex : 
they differ altogether in their shape and venation in the female 
plant, where they are orbicularly ovate, obtusely narrower towards 
the summit, broadly rounded, and either truncated or cordate at 
base, and less entire on the margin : in both sexes they are 
covered with a denser tomentum. The stem is 2 lines thick, 
its axils 1-1| inch apart; the leaves in the are 3J inches 
long, inches broad, with a very stout curved petiole 4 lines 
long ; ill the $ they are 2J-3 J inches long, 2-2^ inches broad, 
either truncated at base or cordate, with a sinus sometimes 
2 lines deep, the petiole being also 4 lines long. The ^ panicles 
are about 4 lines long, their branches |-1 line, all very pilose. 
The $ raceme is 1-1 1 inch long, the braets 4-6 lines in diam., 
with petioles 1 line long ; the drupe is 2^ lines long. 
45. Cissampelos suborhicularis, St. Hil. FI. Bras. i. 53 ; — Cissam- 
pelos ebracteata, St. Hil. 1. c. 53 ; PI. Us. tab. 35 ; — Cissam- 
pelos assimilis, nob. in Kew Journ. Bot. iii. 114; — Cissampelos 
ovalifolia, Eichl. {non DC.) 1. c. p. 187 ; — caulibus solitariis vel 
geminis, erectis, simplicibus, angulato-striolatis, rufo vel 
ochraceo tomentosis, internodiis longiusculis ; foliis sub- 
orbicularibus vel orbiculato-ovatis, summum versus repandis 
vel crenatis, apice emarginatis et cuspidato-mucronatis, supe- 
rioribus minoribus ovatis et acutis, 7-nerviis, nervis extus 
longe ramosis, supra opacis et rufo puberulis, reticulatis, 
subtus cinereo tomentosis; petiolo longiusculo, in limbo 
dimidio (in $ 4-plo) breviore, subtenui, erecto, patentim mol- 
liter piloso, limbo palatim et geniculatim affixo : paniculis 
axillaribus, 3-4, fasciculatis, petiolo sequilongis; pedunculo 
pilosissimo, apice ramoso, ramis brevibus ; floribus corymbosis 
vel subcapitato-approximatis ; sepalis spathulatis, extus pilosis; 
petalo cyathiformi, 4-sulcato, glabro : inflorescentia ? termi- 
nali, floribus 5, in axillis supernis fasciculatis, pedicellatis, 
minimis. — In Brasilia, , prov. Minas Geraes (St. Hilaire) ; 
? sub C. ebracteata, Minas Geraes (St. Hilaire) : v. s. in herb, 
meo ^ , prov. Amazonas, 'prope Santarem (Spruce) ; in herb. 
