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CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOTANY. 
which is 1-3 lines deep. The panicle is 10-12 inches long, 
with spreading branches 4 inehes long, having a short acute 
hractlet at base. 
5. Cyclea versicolor, nob.j — Cyclea peltata. Hook. ^ Th. {in parte) 
FI. Ind. i. 201 ; — Cissampelos discolor. Wall. Cat. in parte, 
{non DC.) ram ulis teretibus, striolatis, glabris; foliis pel- 
tatis, latissime ovatis, imo truncato-cordatis, apice subito 
acutis et mucronulatis, marginibus revolutis, undulato-cre- 
natis, 10-nerviis, reticulatis, coriaceis, glaberrimis, supra 
pallidis, subtus pallide glaucis et pubescentibus ; petiolo 
striato, piloso, limbo 2-3-plo breviore, validiusculo : racemo 
axillari, petiolo 4-plo longiore, sericeo pubescente; rachi 
tenui, remotiuscule interruptim spicata ; floribus in axillulis 
bracteolatis, 4-5, fasciculatis, breviter pedicellatis ; calyce 
subgloboso, ore contracto et breviter 4-5-dentato, extus 
piloso ; corolla late campanulata, paululo breviore, ore fere 
integro et paulo involute, glabra, carnosula; anthera 8-locel- 
lata, ore inclusa : panicula $ axillari, racemiformi, ramosa, 
pubescente, folio subfequilonga, ramis alternis, iterum iterum- 
que ramulosis, ramulis tertiariis apice flores circiter 6 sessiles 
aggregates gerentibus ; sepalo parvo, ovato, extus piloso ; 
petalo orbicular!, glaberrimo, carnosulo, ssepe paulo majore et 
ad unguem sepali affixum ; ovario gibboso-globoso, petal! 
longitudine, pilosuloj stylo brevissimo ; stigmatibus 4, seta- 
ceis, subdivaricatis. — In India oriental! : v. s. in herb. Soc. 
Linn. jJ, Neilgherries (Wall. Cat. 4982 b, ex herb. Heyne) ; 
$ , Trivandrum (Malabar), ex herb. Wight (Wall. Cat. 
4982 A. non A. a). 
I have not adopted Wallich’s specific name, lest it should be 
mistaken for the Clypea discolor of Blume or Cissampelos dis- 
color of De Candolle. The plants above quoted differ from the 
two preceding species in their more glabrous habit, their shorter 
and more slender petiole, in the form of the ^ inflorescence, and 
in their 8-celled anthers. The leaves are 3-4| inches long, 
with a very shallow, broad basal sinus, 2-2| inches broad, on a 
petiole |-1 inch long, which is inserted 7 or 8 lines within the 
margin of the basal sinus. The rachis of the inflorescence is 
slender, 4^ inches long, with bracteolated axils | inch apart, 
from each of which issue three fasciculated I-flowered pedicels 
scarcely longer than the linear bracteole, which is 1-| line long. 
The $ panicle is about 4 inches long and very pubescent ; its 
lower branch is 1^ inch long; the others, | inch apart, diminish 
upwards to 4 or 5 lines; the secondary branchlets, which are 
4 lines long and 6 lines apart, have tertiary branches like pedi- 
cels, 1 line long and line apart, hracteolated at base, and sup- 
