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upon these variable conditions. The leaves vary much in form 
in the same specimen, are 6-15 lines long, 3-11 lines broad, 
the petiole being generally little more than half the length of 
the blade ; and when equally long, it is more filiform. The 
peduncles, always growing out of a tuft of white hairs, are 
2-4 lines long, surmounted by a small head of minute tomen- 
tose flowers. I have never seen a female flower, and have met 
with only a single seed, which adhered to the leaf of a solitary 
specimen. 
3. Asiatic.®. 
* Folia peltata; frutices scandentes. 
58. Cissampelos diversa, nob. ; — C. Pareira, Hook. ^ Th. {non 
Linn.) MS. ; — ramulis teretibus, striatis, glabris ; foliis pro- 
funde peltatis, deltoideo-oblongis, imo orbicularibus, mox 
gradatim angustatis, et valde acutis, 9-11-nerviis, nervis 
extus praecipue ramosis, supra viridibus, reticulatis, glaberri- 
mis, subtus cinereo tomentosis, nervis prominulis ; petiolo 
striato, fere glabro, limbo subaequilongo, supra basin tumi- 
dulo : racemo $ axillari, petiolo breviore ; bracteis orbiculari- 
bus, imbricatis, 6-floris ; floribus breviter pedicellatis et fasci- 
culatis; sepalo obovato, extus piloso; petalo parvo, orbicu- 
lato, breviter unguiculato, extus piloso; ovario piloso.— In 
India orientali : v. s. in herb. Hook., Khasya (Hook. & Th. 
sub nom. cit.). 
This species does not bear any resemblance to C. Pareira, 
Linn., to which it is referred by the authors of the ‘ Flora In- 
dica.’ It is different from any Indian or American species I 
have seen, its chief peculiarity consisting in its deeply peltate 
leaves, which much resemble those of Stephania •, they are quite 
round in their lower moiety, whence the sides gradually converge 
in straight lines to a sharp acuminate point, being 3| inches 
long, 2| inches broad, on a petiole 3:|^ inches long, which is 
inserted 11-13 lines within the basal margin. The ? raceme is 
1 inch long, with imbricating bracts 2 lines in diameter. 
59. Cissampelos elata, nob. ; — ramulis teretibus, retrorsum se- 
riceo pubescentibus ; foliis profunde peltatis, deltoideo-orbi- 
culatis, latiusculis, imo subtruncatis, vel sinu levissimo retusis, 
a medio gradatim angustioribus, apice obtusis aut rotundiori- 
bus, emarginatis et aristato-mucronatis, marginibus revolutis, 
pilis flavidis ssepius dense fimbriatis, 9-11-nerviis, supra 
glabris vel sparse pilosis, subtus cano- vel fulvo-glaucescenti- 
bus, pilosis, et ad nervos prominulos divaricatim hirsutis ; 
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