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ceis, supra subglabris; floribus in axillis, 7-8, fasciculatis, 
pedicellatis ; sepalo cuneato-oblongo, inargine crenato, extus 
pilosulo ; petalo reniformi, dimidio breviore ; ovario piloso ; 
drupis parvis, pilosulis. — In India orientali : v. s. in herb. 
Lindley, $ , Peninsula (Wight, 39) ; in herb. Soc. Linn. 
Kumaon (Wall. Cat. 4979 go, 4977 c) ; in herb. Hook. 
Jainia Himalaya (Hook. & Th.) ; in herb. Mus. Brit., Puniab 
(Hook. & Th.). 
Specimens of this plant were distributed from Dr. Wight’s 
collection under the name of C. convolvulacea ; but it differs 
from that species in the very elongated foi-m of its much larger 
leaves, which are of a fuscous hue and nearly glabrous above ; 
they are 3^^ inches long, 2^—3 inches broad, on a petiole 3- 
3^ inches long, which is inserted I or 2 lines within the margin 
of the basal sinus. The $ raceme is 2-3 inches long; the 
basal floral leaf is | inch long, the bracts 2-2^ lines in diameter. 
65. Cissampelos obtecta, Wall. ; — C. Pareira, Hook, b; Th. {non 
Linn.), 1. c. 198; Eichl. 1. c, p. 189; — ramulis pube patente 
sericea pilosis; foliis peltatis, orbicularibus vel reniformi- 
orbiculatis, summum versus baud angustioribus, apice emar- 
ginatis et mucronatis, imo sinu lato levissime cordatis, 9-11- 
nerviis, reticulatis, supra opacis, fusculis, sparse pilosis, sub- 
tus pallidioribus, sordide vel fulvido-glaucis, molliter sub- 
pilosis, ad nervum marginalem remote subcrenatis et lanato- 
ciliatis ; petiolo crassiusculo, limbo 4-plo breviore, dense pu- 
bescente : paniculis ^ axillaribus, corymbosis, petiolo vix 
longioribus; pedunculo filiform! furcatim diviso; ramis te- 
nuissimis, puberulis, cum pedicello simplici in dichotomiis; 
sepalis 4-5, oblongis, subacutis, medio maculatim pictis, 
marginibus pellucidis, extus longe pilosis ; petalo cyathiformi, 
integro, extus piloso ; anthera 4-5-, rarius 6-loba : racemo $ 
axillari, folio breviore; rachi geniculatim flexuosa, nimie im- 
bricatim bracteata; bracteis suborbicularibus, fere sessilibus, 
supra puberulis, subtus pilosis, marginibus ciliato-pilosis ; 
floribus in axillis, fasciculatis, pedicellatis ; sepalo subreflexo, 
rhomboideo-ovato, extus hispidulo; petalo reniformi, dimidio 
breviore, piloso; ovario hispidulo; stylo brevi. — In India 
orientali: v. s. in herb. Mus. Brit. (^ , Nepalia (Wall. a.d. 
1819) ; in herb. Soc. Linn. ^ , Nepalia (Wall. Cat. 4981 a, 
non B, c), $ (Wall. Cat. 4979 g ^»), ? , Ladak (Moorcroft 
in hb. Wall. Cat. 4979 n). 
A species well distinguished by the peculiar appearance of its 
orbicular leaves with fimbriated margins and short stout petioles, 
differing from those of the preceding species and C. hirsuta in 
voii. III. 2 c 
