Ord menispermaceje. 



1. STEPHANIA, Lour. 



Stephania, Lour. Fl. Cochin, ed. Willd. 2, p. 746; Endl. Atakt. Bot. t. 49, 50, & 



Gen. p. 827. 

 Clypea, Blume, Bijdr. p. 26; Decaisne, Herb. Timor, p. 95, t. 18; Wight & Am. 



Prodr. Ind. Or. 1, p. 14. 

 Stephania & Clypea, Miers, in Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. Jan. 1851. 



1. Stephania Forsteri. 



S. glabra; foliis peltatis ovatis liinc rotundatis illinc subacutis vel sub- 

 acuminatis integer rimis, inferioribus obliquis ; pedunculis petiolo 

 cequilongis; floribus capitato-congestis ; capittdis umbellatis; fl. masc. 

 sepalis 6-8; petalis 3-4 cuneatis; putamine annulari muricato. 



Menispermum Japonicum, Forst. Prodr. Fl. Ins. Austr. p. 71, non Thunb. 



M. peltatum, Forst. in Herb. Lambert. 



Cocculus Forsteri, DC. Syst. 1, p. 517, & Prodr. 1, p. 96 ; Guill. Zeph. Tait. p. 76. 



Hab. Tahiti, Society Islands: open places in mountain woods. 

 Also, without flowers or fruit, in the Samoan or Navigators' Islands, 

 and Tongatabu. 



Stem twining, striate-grooved, glabrous, or nearly so. Leaves excen- 

 trically peltate, rounded-ovate, with a rather acute or acuminate apex, 

 3 or 4 inches long, glabrous, paler, but scarcely glaucescent under- 

 neath, entire, the lower transversely oblique, the uppermost shorter 

 than the petioles. Peduncles supra-axillary, as long as the petioles; the 

 sterile compound-umbellate, with few primary rays of an inch or two 



