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PHANEROGAMIA. 



son, and which Mr. Miers, who has examined a specimen in the Can- 

 dollean herbarium, informs me is a Clypea, as he distinguishes the 

 two genera. We have only the female plant, in flower; the sepals 

 and petals of which, however, are as frequently four as three in 

 number. The leaves broadly ovate, obtusely or slightly pointed, excen- 

 trically peltate, either truncate or the smaller ones more or less cordate 

 at the base, 2 or 3 inches long, glabrous above, softly pubescent under- 

 neath, longer than the petioles. Peduncles of the fertile inflorescence 

 an inch or more in length, pubescent, bearing from 5 to 8 umbellate 

 short rays, each terminated by a dense or capitate umbellet or glome- 

 ruli The roundish petals are thickish, only half the length of the 

 sepals. 



3. Stephania australis, Miers, I. c. 



Hab. Hunter's River, New South Wales. The fertile plant only. 



This is very probably the species enumerated by Mr. Miers, under 

 this name, founded on the Cissampelos australis of A. Cunningham's 

 collection. 



2. CISSAMPELOS, Linn. 



1. Cissampelos capensis, Linn. 



Hab. Cape of Good Hope : common in the vicinity of Cape Town. 



2. Cissampelos discolor, DC? 



Var. cardiophylla : foliis plevisque reniformi-cordatis subtus canescenti- 

 bus ; peduncidis floribusque hirsutissimis. 



Cissampelos Pareira, Blanco, Fl. Filip. p. 815 ? Walp. Eel. Meyen. p. 299 ? 



Hab. Small Island, in the Sooloo Sea. 



