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five flowers ; the sepal is small and orbicular ; the petal, also 
round, is very little smaller, both spotted and pilose outside : 
the drupe is 2 lines in diameter and pilose ; the putamen, com- 
pressed, has nine ridges radiating from the condyle. 
62. Cissampelos hirsuta, Buchanan ; DC. Syst i. 535, Prodr. i. 
101 ; — Cissampelos Pareira, Hook. ^ Th. [non Linn.) FI. Ind. 
i. 198; Eichl. 1. c. p. 189; — ramulis flavo-virentibus, dense 
cinereo pilosis; foliis peltatis, subovatis, imo rotundatis vel 
subtruncatis, apice obtusis vel subacutis, ssepe longe mucro- 
natis, marginibus sericeo fimbriatis, 7-9-nerviis, supra sub- 
pubescentibus, fuscis, rugosulis, opacis, nervis tenuibus, fla- 
vidis, prominulis, subtus pilis flavidis, dense sericeo tomen- 
tosis : paniculis S axillaribus, solitariis, petiolo paulo longiori- 
bus, dense patentim pilosis; pedunculo tenui, dicbotome di- 
viso; floribus corymbosis, subcapitellatis ; sepalis cuneato- 
ovalibus, maculatim pictis, petaloque cyatbiformi extus pilosis; 
racemis $ axillaribus, binis, petiolo 2-plo longioribus, tomen- 
tosis, imbricatim bracteatis ; bracteis orbicularibus, aristatis, 
supra fusculis, puberulis, marginibus flavide fimbriatis, subtus 
tomentosis ; floribus in axillulis 8, fasciculatis, sepalo cuneato- 
oblongo, petaloque cuneato-reniformi 4-plo breviore, extus 
hirsutis ; ovario hirsute. — In India orientali : v. s. in herb. 
Mus. Brit. , Sembu, Nepal (Buchanan); in herb. Mus. 
Brit, et Lindl. $ , Nielgherries (Hook. & Tb.) ; in herb, meo, 
? , Coimbatore (Gardner) ; in herb. Hook., Almora, Kumaon 
(Strachy & Winterbottom). 
A very distinct species, easily recognized by its small, broadly 
ovate, peltate, very velvety leaves, in ^ much rounded at base 
and obtuse at summit, with a short, thick petiole ; in $ more 
deltoid, truncated, with a very shallow sinus at base, more acute 
at summit, -with a somewhat longer petiole. The leaves are 
1^-2^ inches long, lf-2^ inches broad, on a petiole 9 lines long 
in ^ , 9-12 lines long in $ , inserted in (^2^-3 lines, in ? 2 lines 
within the basal margin. The ^ panicle is I-I5 inch long, in- 
cluding its slender peduncle f inch long; the sepals are oval, 
with long villous hairs outside: the $ raceme is 1^-2 inches 
long, clothed from its base with closely imbricated, pilose, orbi- 
cular bracts 2 lines in diameter. 
63. Cissampelos discolor, DC. Syst. i. 534, Prodr. i. 101 ; — 
Cissampelos cardiophylla, A. Gi'ay, Bot. Wilkes’s Exped. 
p. 38; — Cissampelos Pareira, Blanco [non Linn.), FI. Filip. 
p. 815; Walp. Reliq. Meyen. 209; Hook. ^ Th. [non 
Linn.) 1. c. 198 ; Eichl. 1. c. p. 189; — ramulis tenuibus, stria- 
tis, subglabris; foliis peltatis, deltoideis, angulis basalibus 
