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stingulshed from them by its peculiar mode of inflorescence. 
The branches are slender, with remote axils; the leaves from 
the difFerent localities differ much in size, varying from 1 to 3 
inches long, 1-2| inches broad, on a petiole |-3 inches long, 
inserted |-1 line within the margin : in Mr.Thwaites’s specimens 
they are almost palately inserted. The sepals in the j' flowers 
are spathulately ovate, very pilose outside ; the corolla is cup- 
shaped, pilose outside, marked with interrupted red lines; the 
anther is 4-lobed. 
*** Folia palata aut vix peltata ; sufiPrutices scandentes. 
68. Cissampelos orbiculata, DC. Syst. i. 537, Prodr. i. 101 ; — 
C. Pareira, Hook, Th. [non Linn.) FI. Ind. i. 198 ; Eichl. 1. c. 
p.l89; — C. Caapeba,i?oa;Z>. i^nonWilld.) ,Fl.Ind.9>-^2-, — C. con- 
volvulacea, Wall, in parte {nonWilld.); — Cocculus orbiculatus, 
DC. Syst. i. 523, Prodr. i. 98; — Batta Valle, i7or^. 
Mai. xi. 127, tab. 62 ;— ramulis teretibus, subglabris, juniori- 
bus villosis; folds palatis aut obsolete peltatis, suborbiculari- 
bus, imo cordatis, a medio paulo angustioribus, apice obtusis, 
emarginatis et mucronatis,interdum rotundioribus,5-7-nerviis, 
supra pubescentibus, subtus cinereo- vel fulvo-glaucis, plus 
minusve villoso pubescentibus, marginibus tomentosis ; petiolo 
pubescente, tenui, limbo subsequilongo : pauiculis ^ axillari- 
bus, 2-3, fasciculatis, petiolo brevioribus, trichotome ramosis ; 
floribus minimis, congeste corymbosis ; interdum e ramulo 
novello florifero, racemum folio 3-plo longiorem mentientibus, 
rachi flliformi, axillulis inferioribus et remotiusculis, bractea 
foliiformi, superioribus bracteola parva donatis, singulis pani- 
culis 3 brevissimis emittentibus ; racemo $ axillari, folio lon- 
giore, imo folioloso, sursum bracteato et florifero, bracteis 
reniformi-orbiculatis, villosis, singulis floribus 7-8 fasciculatis 
donatis; sepalo spathulato-oblongo petaloque orbiculari vel 
reniformi, 4-plo breviore, radiatim 2-3-nervi, ambobus extus 
dense pilosis; ovario villoso; stylo glabro, longiusculo ; 
stigmatibus divaricatis.— In India orientali ; v. s. in herb. Soc. 
Linn. et $ , Sylhet (Wall. Cat. 4979), Dendygal jungles 
(Wall. Cat. 4979 a «, 4979 b); cf, Madras (Wall. Cat. 4979 f); 
? , Nepal (Wall. Cat. 4979 oil, et 4981 a b), Sylhet 
(Wall. Cat. 4981 b), Oude (Wall. Cat. 4981 c) ; in herb. 
Lindi, Moulmein; in herb. //boA., Madras (Hunter); Punjab 
(Hook. & Th.) ; $, Assam (Griffiths, 569); Rangoon 
(McClelland). 
This species may be distinguished from C. convolvulacea by its 
usually smaller, orbiculate, and palate leaves; and from C. sub- 
peltata. to which it more closely approximates, by its more orbi- 
