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FLORA OF ADEN. 
style simple, conical, subulate, or absent ; stigma capitate or discoid, 
sublobate. 
Fruit a berry, often watery; cells 1 — 2-seeded. Seeds rugulose, 
with a stony or crustaceous testa ; embryo small, in a copious generally 
hard albumen; radicle inferior. 
Genera 3, species about 500, 
Distribution : — Tropical and temperate regions of the world. 
1. Yitis Linn. 
Shrubs with herbaceous, woody or succulent stems, usually sarmentose 
with copious tendrils, sometimes suberect. Leaves simple or compound. 
Flowers umbellate, cymose, paniculate, racemose or spicate ; peduncles 
leaf-opposed, rarely axillary, usually towards the ends of the branches. 
Calyx entire or 4 — 5-dentate or-lobed. Petals 4—5, free or calvptrately 
cohering at the apex. Disk various or obsolete. Stamens 4 — 5, inserted 
below the margin of the disk; anthers free. Ovary 2-celled, rarely 3 — 4- 
oelled ; ovules 2 in each cell. f 
Berry L — 2-celled; cells-1 — 2-seeded. 
Species about 400. 
Distribution : — Cosmopolitan. 
1. Yitis quad ran gu laris Wall. Cat. 5992 ; W. & A. Prodr. 125; 
Wight Ic. t. 51; Brand. For. FI. 100; Hook. FI. Brit. Ind. I, 645 ; 
Oliver FI. trap. Afr. I, 399 ; Cooke FI. Bomb. Pres. I, 250. 
Cissus edulis Dalz. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. IX, 248 ; Dalz. and 
Gibs. Bomb. FI. 40 ; Thw. Enum. 62. 
Cissus quadrangularis Linn. Mant. 39 ; Roxb. FI. Ind. I, 407 ; DC. 
Prodr. I, 628 ; Grab Cat. Bomb. PI. 33 ; Dalz. and Gibs. Bomb. FI. 39. 
Sselanthus quadragonus Forsk. Descr. 33, t. 2. 
Cissus tetraptera Hook. f. FI. Nigrit. 263. 
Cissus triandra *1 Schum. et Thonn. Guin. PL 81. 
Cissus bitida j 
Arabic name : — Ssela. 
Description : — Stem thick, wide-climbing, herbaceous, quadrangular, 
constricted at the nodes, the angles of the young branches winged ; 
tendrils long, slender, simple. Leaves 1 — 2 inches long, broadly ovate or 
reniform, sometimes 3 — 7-lobed, denticulate, glabrous, cordate, rounded, 
truncate or cuneate at the base ; petioles J — \ inch long ; stipules small, 
broadly ovate, obtuse. 
Flowers in shortly peduncled cymes, with spreading umbellate 
branches. Calyx cup-shaped, truncate, or obscurely lobed. Petals 4, 
ovate-oblong, hooded at the apex. Disk erect, 4-lobed. 
