196 flora in Die a. \Menispermacecc . 



Frutex scandens, caule gracili angulato striato glabro. Folia interdum apice ob- 

 tusa, subtns pallida, 2^-4 poll, longa, \-2\ lata, petiolo gracili ditnidio breviore. 

 Pedunculi gracillimi, plerumque petiolis longiores, fructiferi ssepe folia superantes. 

 Umbella multiradiatse, interdum bis divisse. F lores purpurei vel virides, graveo- 

 lentes. Sepala late ovata, acuminata. Petala obovata, interdum emarginata. ~ Drupte 

 translucentes, subglobosae, rubrse. 



This pretty little species, which is very common in the Eastern Himalaya among 

 the lower hills, appears undescribed, unless it be the <$'. long a of Loureiro, with 

 which, however, we cannot venture to unite it, as the description does not satis- 

 factorily accord. No specimen of that plant exists in the British Museum, It may 

 readily be known from the next by the flowers being supported on pedicels, and not 

 collected into heads. 



2. S. hernandifolia (Walpers, Rep. i. 96) ; foliis ovatis vel sub- 

 deltoideis acutis vel obtusis interdum acuminatis, umbellulis capitatis. 



a ; foliis subtus glabris vel secus nervos tenuiter puberulis, pedun- 

 culis glabris. — Cissampelos hernandifolia, Willd. ; DC Syst. i. 533, 

 Prod. i. 100; Wall. Cat. 4977 D! Clypea hernandifolia, W. et A. 

 Trod. i. 14; Wight, Ic. t. 939, Spic. Neilg. t. 7. 



0; folioram pagina inferiore pedunculisque pubescentibus. — Cis- 

 sampelos discolor, DC. Syst. i. 534, Prod. i. 101 ; Blame, Bijdr. 26. C. 

 hexandra, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 842. C. hernandifolia, Roxb. Fl. hid. iii. 

 842 ; Wall. Cat. 4977 E! F! G! H! K! (excl. cat. lit.). Stephania 

 discolor, Hassk. PI. Jav. Rar. p. 168. 



Hab. Var. a. In dumetis humidis prsesertim raontanis . Zeylaniae ! 

 Carnaticae australis ! Malabar! Concan! a planitie ad alt. 7000 ped. 

 Var. £. In Malaya ! Ava ! Chittagong ! Khasia ! Bengalia ! et in Hima- 

 laya snbtropica orientali et media ab Assam! ad Nipaliam! — (Fl. per 

 totum annum.) (v. v.) 



Distbib. Abyssinia, Java, ins. Philipp., Timor, Australia tropica. 



Frutex scandens, ramulis striatis glabris. Folia basi truncata vel leviter cordata, 

 tenuiter coriacea, subtus pallida vel glaucescentia, glabra vel tenuiter pubescentia, 

 3-6 poll, longa et aequilata vel i angustiora, petiolo 1^-4-polhcari. Pedunculi 

 axillares, abbreviati vel petiolos superantes, apice umbellati ; nmbellse radii longitu- 

 dine varii, bract eis subulatis stipati, capitula 8-12- vel pluriflora gerentes, interdum 

 proliferi. Sepala obovata, obtusa. Petala dimidio minora, 3-4. 



The amount of variation to which this species is subject is so great, that we have 

 little doubt that all the synonyms quoted above are correctly referred to it. Indeed, 

 we can assign no characters for the separation of Cissampelos Forsteri, DC. (Stepha- 

 nia Forsteri, Asa Gray, Plants "Wilkes* Exp.), to which Clypea venosa, Bl. Bijdr., and 

 C. glaucescens, Dene. PL Tim., ought, in all probability, to be reduced. The Malabar 

 and Nilghiri plaot is usually more glabrous than the eastern and Himalayan form, but 

 the latter occasionally occurs with the leaves quite glabrous below. So far as we have 

 observed, however, the peduncles of the eastern plant are always pubescent, and those 

 of the western plant always glabrous ; but more extended observation will perhaps 

 break down even that difference. Stephania Abyssinica of Richard, FL Abyss, t. 4 

 (which is Ileocarpus Schimperi, Miers, or Menispermum Schimperi, Hochs tetter), is 

 evidently the same as the glabrous Nilghiri form. Both varieties occur in Java, and 

 the glabrous form extends to Timor and the Philippines, while the pubescent state 

 occurs in tropical Australia. Wight and Arnott quote under this species Cocculus 

 Roxburghianus, Wall. Cat. 4972 A; but in the Linuean Society's collection that and 

 all the other letters belong to Stephania rotunda, Lour., except a specimen from the 

 Calcutta garden, distributed at a later period than the rest, and included in one of 



