Cissam'pelos, a genus of Menispermaceæ, of which one species, C. Pareira, was formerly regarded as the source of the drug known as Pareira Brava (q.v.), also called Butua Root.
Cissam'pelos
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 3: Catarrh to Dion, p. 266
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