196 FLORA INDIOA. [Menispermocece . 



Fmtex scandens, caule gracili angulato striate glabro. Folia interdum apiee ob- 

 tusa, subtus pallida, 2^-4 poll, longa, l-3i lata, petiolo gracili dimidio breviore. 

 FeduncuU gracillimi, plerumque petiolis longiores, fructiferi sajpe folia saperantes. 

 XJ-mhellts multiradiatge, interdum bis dirisse. Flores purpurei vel virides, graveo- 

 lentes. Sepala late ovata, acuminata. Petala obovala, interdum emarginata. Drupes 

 translucentes, subglobosa?, rubrse. 



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

 the lower hills, appears nndescribed, unless it be the S. longa 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. 



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

 (leltoideis acutis vel obtusis interdum aouminatis, umbellulis capitatis. 

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

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

 Prod. i. 100; JFall. Cat. 4977 D! Clypea hernandifolia, IT. et J. 

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



0;foliorum pagina inferiore pedunoulisque pubescentibus. — Cis- 

 sampelos discolor, BC. Syst. i. 534, Prod. i. 101 ; Blume, Bijdr. 26. C. 

 hexandra, Roxb. M. Ind. iii. 843. C. bernandifolia, Roxb. PL Ind. iii. 

 843; fTall. Cat. 4977 E! F! Gf H! K! {excl. cat. lit.). Stephania 

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



Hab. Var. a. In dumetis humidis prsesertim montanis ZeylaniEe ! 

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

 Var. /3. In Malaya ! Ava ! Chittagong ! Khasia ! Bengalia ! et in Hima- 

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

 totum annum.) (u. w.) 



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



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

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

 3-6 poll, longa et eequilata vel i angustiora, petiolo 14-4-pollicari. FeduncuU 

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

 dine varii, bracteis subulatis stipati, cafitula 8-13- vel pluriflora gerentes, interdum 

 proliferi. Sepala obovata, obtusa. Felala 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 ({uoted 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. PI. Tim,, ought, in all probability, to be reduced. The Malabar 

 and Nilghiri plant 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 Ahjssinica of Richard, Fl. Abyss, t. 4 

 (which is Ileocarpus Schimperi, Miers, or Ilenispermum Schimperi, Hochstetter), is 

 evidently the same as the glabrous Nilghiri form. Both varieties occur iu 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 

 Roxdurffhianus,'Vfa.\i. Cat. 4972 A; but in the Linnean 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 



