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cular leaves : it appears widely diflFused over the peninsula. Its 
leaves are generally small ; they are larger in the specimen from 
Sylhet, as in Rheede’s figure; they are lj-2^ inches long, Ij- 
2^ inches broad, on a petiole 1-1| inch long, inserted 
scarcely within the margin of the basal sinus, which is either 
obsolete or 1-2 lines deep. The panicles are ^-1 inch long; 
the racemose inflorescence 1| inch long, with orbicular bracts 
3 lines in diameter : the $ racemes are l|-4 inches long, the 
bracts 3-6 lines in diameter. 
69. Cissampelos delicatula, nob. ; — ramulis tenerrimis, striatis, 
subglabris ; foliis vix peltatis, deltoideo-orbicularibus, imo 
subtruncatis aut minime cordatis, a medio sensim angustiori- 
bus, apice obtusiusculis aut emarginatis, mucronatis, mem- 
branaceis, 5-7-nerviis, supra subnitidis, subtus pallidioribus, 
sub lente parce puberulis vel glabriusculis ; petiolo tenuissimo, 
limbo duplo longiore, striolato, subpubescente, in $ paulo 
breviore : paniculis axillaribus binis vel plurimis, petiolo 
dimidio brevioribus; pedunculo iterura dichotome ramoso, 
ramulis ultimis spicatim pedicellatis; floribus vel paniculis e 
ramulo novello fere aphyllo ortis, pedunculo ramisque capil- 
laribus subglabris, floribus minutis : racemo ? axillari, 
petiolo subjequilongo ; bracteis orbicularibus, subparvis, im- 
bricatis ; flores circiter 6 celantibus. — In Malabar : v. s. in 
herb. Hook, c? et $ , Kurg (Madras Coll. 60) ; ^ Ind. or. 
(sub nom. Clypea Wightii, No. 37); in herb. Reward, Ceylon; 
in herb. Soc. Linn., Hatowdah, Nepal (M'^all. Cat. 4981 a b). 
This is an extremely delieate and slender climber, differing 
from C. orbiculata in its much smaller, membranaceous, almost 
glabrous leaves, truncate at base, on a very elongated filiform 
petiole. The leaves are Ij-lf inch long, If-l^ inch broad, 
on a petiole l|-2 inches long, inserted \ line within the basal 
margin, and therefore almost palate. The inflorescence con- 
sists of from two to six panicles fasciculated in each axil, |-1 inch 
long; they are twice dichotomously divaricated, with a pedicel 
in each furcation, the ultimate branches being charged with 
numerous pinnately arranged pedicels, all slightly pubescent : 
the sepals are suborbicular, pilose outside ; the petal is extremely 
shallow and glabrous; the anthers 4-lobed, supported on a 
slender far-cxserted filament. The raceme-like and very slender 
axillary floriferous branch, on an almost filiform flexuous rachis, 
is quite leafless, with axils 6-8 lines apart, each with two small 
panicles 4 lines long; rarely there is a small single leaflet near 
the base of the rachis, which is orbicular, 2 lines in diameter, 
on a petiolule 2 lines long. 
