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axils, which are f inch apart, two or three of the lower axils 
emitting a short branchlet 3 lines long; others become shorter 
as they ascend, till at last they become obsolete, so that the 
capitate heads of flowers are sessile in the upper and stipitated 
in the lower axils, the globose heads of sessile minute flowers 
being 2-3 lines in diameter. The $ raceme is about 3 inches 
long, with short branchlets 2-3 lines long, and 3-5 lines apart, 
the capitate heads being 1-2 lines in diameter. 
4. Cyclea Burmanni, Hook. & Th. FI. Ind. i. 201 ; — Rhaptomeris 
Burmanni, nob. in Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 2. vii. 41 ; — Clypea 
Burmanni, fV. Sf A. {in parte) Prodr. i. 14; — Cocculus Bur- 
manni, DC. Syst. i. 517, Prodr. i. 96; — Smilax, sp., Burm. 
Zeyl. 218, tab. 101 : — ramulis teneribus, teretibus, striatis, 
retrorsum longe hirsutis, vetustioribus glabris ; foliis peltatis, 
elongato-deltoideis, imo sinuato-truncatis aut vix cordatis, 
infra medium pandurseformiter sinuatis, angulis rotundatis, 
sursum subsiuuatis, gradatim et curvatim angustioribus, ssepe 
valde acuminatis et aristato-mucronatis, coriaceis, reticulatis, 
10-12-nerviis, neiwo marginali glabrescente, rarius ciliato, 
supra nitidissimis, glabris vel parce pilosis, subtus fulvo vel 
cinereo pubescentibus et in nervis divaricatim pilosis ; petiolo 
tenui, striato, piloso, limbo dimidio breviore : panicula axil- 
lari, folio multo longiore, laxe ramosa, puberula, ramis remotis, 
elongatis, filiformibus, divaricatis, I’emotiuscule et breviter 
ramulosis, ramulis corymbifloris, floribus pedicellatis; calyce 
late campanulato, ore brevissime d—b-G-dentato, extus piloso, 
intus sparse puberulo ; corolla depresso-cyathiformi, margine 
integro involuto, glabra, carnosula ; anthera 4-5-6-locellata : 
racemo $ axillari, petiolo subsequilongo, pubescente, rachi 
flexuosa, breviter ramosa; floribus numerosissimis, in ramis 
sessilibus et creberrime conglomeratis ; sepalo suborbiculari, 
extus piloso ; petalo orbicular!, paulo minore, glabro et car- 
nosulo; drupis pilosis. — In Indise peninsula et Ceylon : v. s. 
in herb. Mus. Brit. (hb. Hermann!, vol.ii. fol.27 et 72), Ceylon : 
in herb. Heward Ceylon : in herb, meo $, Ceylon (Gard- 
ner, 33) ; in herb. DeCand., penins. Ind. ? (Wight, 40) ; in 
herb. Hook., Ceylon, ^ (Walker, 194) ; Kandy, (Champion) ; 
Concan, (Stocks, Gibson). 
This species, which is almost peculiar to Ceylon, is very di- 
stinct from C. Arnottii, with which it has been confounded : it 
differs from it in its smaller, much narrower, polished, coria- 
ceous leaves, which are usually contracted towards the base in a 
panduriform manner, and its calyx is more globose. The leaves 
are 3^-6 inches long, 1^-3 inches broad, on a petiole 1-2 J inches 
long, inserted 5-8 lines within the margin of the basal sinus, 
