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nate, naviculari-concave. Perianthit masculi laciniw Man ating 
majores, subrotundate, concave, obtusissinie, 0°75 m onge ; 
interiores minores clavate. Stamina sex, qualia, anthers 
introrse filamentis equilonge. Spice feminex axillares, solituriz, 
simplices, fructu maturo ad 18 cm. longs, dependentes ; flores ad 
12. Capsule sessiles, be aetna alee maturse a mentacere, 
conspicuixsime latiores quam semivirculares, 2 cm. longe, latee, 
fusco-straminew. Semina in quoque loculo gemina, aubrotandat, 
fere 2 cm, lata, inequaliter circumcirca alata, rufo-brunn 
Batatas, Bentham pro parte, Flora Hongkongensis, (1861) 2 "ba, 
C. H. Wright in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. xxxi (1903), p. 91; 
glabra, C, ee Wright, pro parte, in Journ, eit Soc, Bot. xxxi 
(1903), p. 91. 
Cuina Ortentatis. In colonia Hongkong, ore ; etiamque 
in insula adjacente Lantao, Ford, 3; prope Won ejusdem 
insule, Lamont, 758, et mercenarius Fordit, 659. 
Typi in Herbario Regale Kewense conservati sunt. 
Dioscorea Hemsteyi. Radix ignota. Caules pubescentes vel 
puberuli, wetate glabrescentes, inermes, aliquo modo canaliculati, 
sinistrorsam volubiles; bulbille absunt, Folia all 
cordata, membranacea, supra puberula, infra dense pubescentia 
vel ewtate parum puberu rula pallidiora, late cordata, basis sinu 
rotundato, margine integro, acuminata, apice mucronu cm, 
longa, 8 cm. lata, 9-nervia, nervis extimis spins bifurcatis, 
nervulis secondariis subrectis quam tertiariis parum magis conspi- 
supra distinctis, majoribus infra solaum prominenti- 
bus distincts ; petiolus palescene vel puberulus, inermis, supra 
late canaliculatus, 5m. longus. Cyma masculse 2—4 mm. lon 
ore vel rarve ]—2-floree, in apsih ts amentiformibus ex axi axillis 
folicrum divergentibus vel “dependen us ad 10 cm. longis dis- 
posite ; rhachis basi 1O—25 mm. eat sporti pubescens, trigonus ; 
ractee ovato-cordate vel lanceolato-cordate, puberule ; bracteole 
absunt. Perianthii masculi floris campanulati lacinie in tubo 
evi connate e illose; tubus 1 mm. longus; lacinize 
lanceolate, dbtuse, brunneo-lineolate, exteriores quam interiores 
paullulo longiores, Stamina sex, ad tubi superioram partem 
affixa, qualia, perianthio conspicue breviora ; anthere filamentis 
breviores. Spice foemines solitarie, ex axillis folioram depend- 
entes, 5—16-flore, 3—5 cm. lenge; flores solitarii, sessiles, ad 2 
remoti; bractese lanceolato-cordate vel RactacarOaten Perian- 
thium fominei floris externe pubescens ; lacinie ovate, brunneo- 
lineolate. Stamina infertilia parva adsunt. Ovarium dense 
