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the basal sinus, which is 3-5 lines deep. The (J panicles are 1 inch 
long, their peduncle being half their length, wuth widely spread- 
ing and twice dichotomously divided branches, and a sterile 
pedicel in each furcation, the ultimate rays being short and corym- 
bose ; the sepals are cuneately orbicular or oblong, clothed ex- 
ternally with long white hairs ; the petal is depressed, cyathi- 
form and glabrous. The ? racemes, inches long, are fur- 
nished with numerous closely imbricating bracts, 3-6 lines in 
diameter, on very short petiolules, each concealing from six to nine 
small pedicellated flowers; the sepal is cuneate-oblong, pilose 
outside ; the petal, one-third of its length, is reniform or orbi- 
cular, and shortly unguiculated, somewhat fleshy, and nearly 
glabrous ; the ovary is very pilose ; the drupes are oval, com- 
pressed, and pilose. 
67. Cissampelos subpeliaia, Thwaites, MS. } — ramulis teretibus, 
sulcato-striatis, nitidulis, glabris vel pubescentibus ; folds 
palatis aut obsolete peltatis, deltoideis aut deltoideo-ovatis, 
imo sinu lato leviter cordatis aut bisinuatis, ssepius a medio 
sensim acutis, apieulo hebeti, vel rotuudioribus, apiee emargi- 
natis et mucronulatis, 7-9-nerviis, supra pallide viridibus, 
nitidulis, glabriusculis, in nervis subpuberulis, subtus cinereo- 
vel fulvo-glaucis, opacis, pubescentibus, nervis nitidis, rufulis 
aut nigrescentibus, marginibus interdum tomentosis ; petiolo 
tenui, limbo subsequilongo vel longiore, sulcato, subglabro,apice 
pubescente : paniculis axillaribus, solitariis aut 2-4, fasci- 
culatis, petiolum subsequantibus vel brevioribus, trichotome vel 
pinnatim ramosis ; ramis remotis et valde divaricatis, ssepe 
bracteatis, bis furcatis, cum pedicello in dichotomiis, ramulis 
brevibus, spicatim plurifloris aut corymbosis, vel inflorescentia 
interdum e ramulo novello aphyllo racemum elongatum simu- 
lante, axillulis breviter paniculatis : racemis $ axillaribus, 
solitariis aut binis, petiolo dimidio brevioribus ; floribus 3, pe- 
dicellatis, in axillis, ebracteatis, fasciculatis ; pedicellis longius- 
culis. — In Zeylania et peninsula Indica : v. s. in herb. Soc. 
Linn. (J, Mungger (Wall. Cat. 4979 J a, non 6) ; in herb. 
Mus. Brit. ^ , Ind. or. (Soc. Frat.) ; $ , Kandy (Konig, 146); 
in herb. Mus. Brit, et Hook. ^ , Ceylon (Thwaites, 168); 
ib. J'et $ (Thwaites, 169) ; in herb. Hook. ^ , Ceylon (Gardn. 
34), ? ib. (Walker); in herb. Lindl., Kandy (Macrae, 113); 
in herb. DC. ^ , Cotallam (Leschenault); in herb. Soc. Linn. 
cJ, Mungger (Wall. Cat, 4979 j). 
This species is intermediate between C. convolvulacea and C. 
orbiculata, differing from the latter in its deltoid and larger 
leaves, on longer petioles, and from the former for the same 
reasons and because the leaves are not peltate ; it is also di- 
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