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MENISPERMACE-E. 



Anona LINN. 



Anona reticulata LINN. 

 HAB. Ako. cult. 



Menispermaeeee. 

 Stephania LOUR. 



Fig. 4. 



Stephania cepharantha 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, stamina! column, taken off ; 6, 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 glaberrirna tenuis- 

 sime herbacea, rotundato-triangularia, 

 4| cm. lata, totiusque longa, subtus 

 pallida, apice obtusa ad centrum sum- 

 mi mucronata, basi peltata rotundata 

 vel truncata nee emarginata nee sinuata, 

 margine subintegra vel undulata, 7- 

 9-nervia, longe petiolata, petiolis 6-7 

 cm. longis gracillimis glabris. Flores 

 capitulati, capitulis racemosis, racemis 

 axillaribus solitariis 7-8 cm. longis gra- 

 cillimis, pedunculis capitulorum gracil- 

 limis 13 mm. longis basi 1-bracteatis, 

 bracteis stipitatis laminis oblongo- 

 triangularibus 1 mm. longis 1 mm. 

 latis ; rhacliidibus racemorum et pedun- 

 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, lineari- 

 spathulatis 1^ mm. longis ^ mm. latis ; 

 petalis 4, rotundatis carnosis |- mm. in 



