o7 



Stephania hiuja LUUJ:. FL Cochinch. ed-WiLLD. p. 747. 



Oissampelos discolor DO. Prodr. I. p. 101. 



Cissampdos hcniandlfoUa AViLLD. Sp. PL IV. p. 100 ; lluxu. 11. Ind. 

 III. p. 842; AVicsiiT Ic. PL Ind. Or. t. 939. 



Cissampdos Jtevaudra HOXB. Fl. Intl. IIJ. p. 84'2. 



3Ieni#permiun japonicum THUNB. Fl. Jap. p. 193 ; AViLLD. Sp. I'l. IV. 

 p. 827. 



Cocculus japonicm DC. Prodr. I. p. 90; SJEI;. et Zuoc. Fl. Jap. Fain. 

 Nat. in Abh. Afoul. ^Cnench. IA r . Pt.-2, (1845) p. 189. 



HAB. Taihokn, Sintiku, Sniteiryo, Jsiki, Bioritsu. 



DISTRIB. Japan, southern China, the Philippines, Malay, India, 

 Ceylon, Africa, Australia and Polynesia. 



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Stephania tetrandra S. MOOIJJ: (I'l. VIII.) in Journ. But. (1875) p. 

 '2-25; MAXIM, in Mel. Biol. XI. p. (MO, t. '2; FUKBES et HEMSL. Ind. Fl. 

 Sin. I. p. 30 ; HENKY List PI. Formos. p. 17; MATSUM. et HAY ATA Eiium. 

 PI. Formos. p. 1<> ; HAY AT A Materials for a Flora of Formosa p. '23. Stem 

 more or less lignined yoluble, striate, glabrous. Leaves reuiformetl, irre- 

 gularly repantlate or entire, abruptly acute at the apex, obtuse and mucro- 

 nate at the very extremity, reniformedly cordate at the base, peltate, (sinus 

 rounded), glabrous, glaucous beneath, chartaceo-membranaceous, 7 cm. long, 

 8 cm. broad, petioles very slender striate G cm. long, inserted near the base 

 of the blades. Panicles supra-axillary as long as petioles, pubescent, flowers 

 capitately or umbellately arranged at the apsx of the branches, pedicels very 

 short, 4 mm. long. Drupes compressedly globose, 5 mm. in diameter, gla- 

 brous. 



HAB. Tamsui. 



Near Stephania Jaliurica DC. and also S. Iternandifdia ; but diners 

 from the former in having nearly rounded but not lobed leaves, and from 

 the latter in roundedly sinuated base of the leaves. In S. Iternandifdia 

 the sinus at the base of the leaves is acute but not rounded. 



Sp, Shrubby, scandent, tomentose. Leaves alternate, ovate or elliptical, 

 obtusely acuminate, shortly petiolate, 7 cm. long, 4 cm. broad, glabrous 



