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porting at their apex a globular head consisting of a few sessile, 
closely aggregated flowers, which are very minute. 
6. Cyclea hxijlora, nob. ; — ramulis tortim striatis, retrorsum 
longe })ilosis ; foliis peltatis, deltoideo-ovatis, imo rotundius- 
culis, sinuato-truncatis et subcordatis, summum versus sen- 
sim angustioribus, apice acutis et longe cuspidato-mucronatis, 
12-nerviis, supra pallide viridibus, glabris aut obsolete pilosis, 
subtus lurido-glaucis, piloso-pubescentibus, nervis venisque 
prominulis, in nervo marginali ciliatis ; petiolo longiusculo, 
subtenui, retrorsum piloso, limbo breviore : panicula ^ supra- 
axillari, pubescente, petiolo 4^5-plo longiore, pendula, laxe et 
divaricatim ramosa; rachi debili, striata, pubescente, ramis 
subremotis, inferioribus longiusculis, sursum gradatim de- 
crescentibus, iterum breviter ramulosis, ramulis laxe corymbu- 
losis, plurifloris ; pedicellis longiusculis, alternatim dispositis, 
pilosulis ; calyce turbinato, glabro, ore 4-dentato ; petalo in 
squamas 4 minutissimas lineares glabras diviso; anthera vix 
exserta, 4-locellata ; panicula ? elongata, pendula, longissime 
rarnosa, ramis iterum breviter ramulosis, ramulis alternatim 
plurifloris, floribus pedicellatis. — In Malacca : v. s. in herb. 
Hook, (^et $ , Malacca (Griffiths). 
In this species the leaves, though shaped as in C. peltata, are 
smaller and less peltate: it is also distinguished from it byitslonger 
panicle, which is more lax, the flowers spreading corymbosely, 
each upon a long pedicel, and not agglomerated into interrupted 
capitate heads ; its flowers are remarkable for the dwarfed con- 
dition of their corolla, which is cleft to the base into four minute 
linear scales ; the $ inflorescence is also very difierent. Its leaves 
are 3|-4^^inches long, 3-3;^ inches broad, on a petiole If inch 
long, inserted 5 lines within the margin of the basal sinus, 
which is 1 line deep. The $ panicle is 8 or 9 inches long; its 
branches, spreading at nearly a right angle, are about | inch 
apart ; the inferior one is 3 inches long, the others becoming 
gradually shorter ; they are bare at their lower half, and then 
give out branchlets 3-5 lines long, which are corymbosely pro- 
vided with lax pedicellated flowers. The somewhat distant, 
slender pedicels are bracteolated at their base, pilose,!^ line long; 
the calyx, I line long, cuneately turbinate, quite glabrous, dark, 
submembranaceous, divided halfway down into four equal seg- 
ments; the petals one-sixth of the length of the calyx; the 
filament as long as the latter. The ? panicle is about 10 inches 
long ; its branches are less spreading, about | inch apart, and 
mostly 3 or 4 inches long, becoming gradually smaller ; they 
ramify again into short branchlets, which are 3-4 lines apart 
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