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petiole 5-10 lines long. The racemose panicle is 1-4 inches 
long, its branches (2 lines long) bearing three alternate, very 
shortly pedicellated flowers ; the flower has a ciliated bract at 
base, three oval outer sepals, three inner obovate somewhat 
larger, all with membranaceous erose margins, six oblong petals 
half their size, with a denticulated apex and two lateral basal 
inflected lobes. The ? flower has similar sepals and petals, six 
anantherous stamens, aud three glabrous ovaries, with a simple 
reflected excentric style ; in the fruit the fleshy cotyledons are 
generally unequal in size. 
2. Pachygone ovata, nob.. Hook. & Th. in parte, Fl.Ind. i. 203; — 
Cissampelos ovata. Pair. Diet. v. 11; DC. Syst. i. 537, Prodr. 
i. 102 ; — foliis ovalibus, utrinque obtusis, mucronatis, imo 
5-nerviis, utraque facie concoloribus et pallidis, coriaceis, 
supra glabris, reticulatis, in nervis prominulis interdum parce 
pilosis, ssepius omnino glabris; petiolo tenui, limbo triplo 
breviore, pubescente : racemis ^ supra-axillaribus, solitariis, 
pnberulis, petiolo subiequilongis vel folio paulo brevioribus ; 
rachi flexuosa, axillis approximatis, bracteolatis, floribus 2-3 
breviter pedicellatis munitis; sepalis glabris. — In India orien- 
tali : V. s. in herb, variis, penins. Ind. (Hook. & Th.). 
A species remarkable for its smaller, paler, and more oval 
leaves, and its simple racemose (not paniculated) inflorescence. 
The leaves are 1 ^-2 inches long, 11-15 lines broad, on a petiole 
5-7 lines long; the racemes are li inch long, with somewhat 
approximated axils, each with a lanceolate very pilose bract, 
1| line long, from which two or three pedicellated flowers arise; 
the flowers have six sepals, in two series, all membranaceous 
and marked with very close interrupted dotted lines ; the outer 
series have a few scattered hairs or are quite glabrous; the three 
inner ones are ovate, very concave, erosely denticulated at the 
summit; the jietals are small, subfleshy, emarginate at the apex, 
minutely punctulate, normally six, embracing as many stamens; 
but sometimes one petal is wanting, but not the stamens, and 
sometimes there are seven stamens without a corresponding 
petal. The drupe is of the same size and form as in the pre- 
ceding species; the putamen is reniform, with a rugous surface; 
the external indication of the internal condyle is almost oblite- 
rated ; the cotyledons are somewhat unequal in size. 
3. Pachygone concinna, nob. ; — ramulis substrictis, tenuibus, 
striatis, glaucis ; foliis ellipticis, utrinque subacutis, cuspi- 
dato-mucronatis, e basi nervis 3 cum nervis lateralibus 
utrinque 4-6 arcuatim nexis, marginibus integris, undulato- 
crispatis, utrinque glaberrimis, supra viridibus, subtus paulo 
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