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MENISPEEMACE.E. 



Anonct LINN. 



Anona reticulata LINN. 

 HAB. Ako. cult. 



Menispermaeeae. 



Stephania LOUR. 



Fig. 4. 



Stephania cepharanlha HAYATA. 1, a 

 leaf ; 2, a flower-head, seen from above ; 

 3, the same, seen from below ; 4, a flower 

 with three petals ; 5, another flower with 

 six petals, staminal column, taken off ; G, a 

 staminal column ; 7, a petal. Fig. 1, natural 

 size ; others more or less magnified. 



Stephania cepharantha HAYATA 

 sp. nov. (Fig. 4). Kami gracillimi 

 striati, glabri. Folia glaberrima tenuis- 

 sime lierbacea, rotmidato-triangularia, 

 4 cin. lata, totiusquo longa, subtus 

 pallicla, apice obtusa ad centrum suin- 

 nii niucrouata, basi peltata rotmiclata 

 vel truncata nee emarginata nee sinuata, 

 margine subintegra vel undulata, 7- 

 9-nervia, longe petiolata, petiolis 6-7 

 cm. lougis gracillimis glabris. Flores 

 capitulati, capitulis racemosis, racemis 

 axillaribus solitariis 7-8 cm. longis gra- 

 cillimis, pedimculis capitulorum gracil- 

 limis 13 mm. lougis basi 1-bracteatis, 

 bracteis stipitatis lamiuis oblongo- 

 triangularibus 1^- mm. longis 1 mm. 

 latis ; rhacliidibus racernorum et peclmi- 

 culis capitulorum complanatis. Capitula 

 disciformia rotundata 6 mm. in diame- 

 tro, receptaculis peltatis 4 mm. in dia- 

 metro, flores 19-20 gerentia. Flores 

 medio desci ; sepalis 4, liiieari- 

 spatbulatis 1 J mm. longis | mm. latis ; 

 petalis 4, rotundatis carnosis % mm. in 



