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branches near its base ; each branch, springing from the bottom 
of a bi’act-like membranaceous leaflet 10 lines in diameter, is 
imbricately covered with orbicular, almost sessile, membrana- 
ceous bracts 2-3 lines in diameter, which are glabrous, though 
ciliated on the margin with long rufous hairs ; the pedicels ai’e 
1 line long; the sepal is 1 line long, oblong, unguiculated at 
base, obtuse at summit, crenulated on the margin, fuscous, and 
sparsely pilose outside ; the petal is orbicular, crenated, and less 
than half the length of the sepal, externally pilose ; the ovary, 
with a long style and trifid stigma, is altogether only | line long. 
48. Cissqmpelos insolita, nob. ; — ramulis teneris, striatis, fusco- 
brunneis, glabris; foliis peltatis, deltoideis, imo orbiculatis 
et paulo cordatis, ultra medium subito sinuato-attenuatis 
et acuminatis, 9-11-nerviis, supra nitidis, glaberrimis (in 
nervis vix pilosulis), valde reticulatis, subtus luride pallidiori- 
bus, opacis, brevissime pubescentibus, nervis teneris, pro- 
minentibus ; petiolo tenui, subpiloso, limbo breviore : pani- 
cula axillari, solitaria, e basi spicato-ramosa, petiolo longiore, 
flavide pubescente ; rachi gracili, ramis capillaribus, subre- 
motis, 2-3,fasciculatis, apice breviter dichotome iterum divisis, 
e bracteola parva ortis ; floribus parvis, fere glabris ; sepalis 
cuneato-orbiculatis ; petalo depresso-cyathiformi ; anthera 
tetraloba. — In Africa tropicali : v, s. in herb. Hook. ^ , Corisco 
Bay (Mann, 1870). 
This species is well distinguished from the preceding by its 
very glabrous habit, its shining leaves sharply acuminated at 
the apex, and by its raceme-like inflorescence, deficient of the 
peculiar imbricated bracts which mark C. Owariensis, and with 
petals and a corolla of very different shape. It forms a shrub 
6 feet high, with very slender scandent branches, whose axils 
are 4 inches apart ; the leaves are 3^-4 inches long, 3|-3| inches 
broad, on a petiole 2-2j inches long, which is inserted 4 lines 
within the margin of the broad basal sinus, 2-3 lines deep. The 
racerne-like inflorescence is 3 inches long, with a straight slender 
rachis clothed with yellow pubescence ; two or three capillary 
fasciculated branches issue at intervals of 3-5 lines out of a 
small bracteole, the capillary peduncles being 3-4 lines long and 
dichotomously divided twice or thrice, with a sterile pedicel in 
each furcation ; the flowers are small and nearly glabrous. 
49. Cissampelos hirta, nob. ; — ramulis pilis longis mollibus hirtis; 
foliis peltatis, late deltoideo-ovatis, imo cordato-truncatis, 
marginibus sinuatis vel integris, apice obtusis et mucronatis, 
e basi 7-9-nerviis, supra viridibus, subglabris, sparse pilosis, 
subtus cano-glaucescentibus, pilosis, in nervis venisque pilis 
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