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8^ inches, the lower lobes 8 inches, the basal portions of which 
are closely approximated and extend 3^ inches below the inser- 
tion of the petiole ; the petiole is 6f inches long, and 2 lines 
diam. The peduncle of the male raceme is 12 inches long, 
slender, polished, of a reddish chestnut-colour, striated, and 
furnished with a very few retrorse stiff hairs, which are some- 
times glandular at the apex ; its branchlets 2 lines apart are 
bracteated, 6-8 lines long, with nearly sessile flowers ; the female 
raceme is simple, 3 inches long, with a few distant 1-flowered 
pedicels, 3 lines long. 
2. Jateorhiza Calumba, nob. j — Coccuhis palmatus. Wall, {non 
DC .) ; — Menispermum Columba, Roxb. FI. Ind. iii. 807 {non 
Comm .)] — ramulis teretibus, angulato-striatis, breviter retror- 
sum hispido-pilosis ; foliis late orbicularibus, sinuato-lobatis,si- 
nibus rotundatis, lobis 5, late ovatis, acutis, apice mucronato- 
acumiuatis, basalibus profunde divaricatis, et hinc late cordatis, 
7-9-nerviis, supra opacis, utrinque pilis brevibus adpressis 
curvulis rufescentibus munitis, subtus pallidis, nervis venis- 
que valde reticulatis prominentibus, in nervis longius et 
patenter glanduloso-hispidulis ; petiolo subtenui, striato, imo 
incrassato et tortuoso, patenter glanduloso-hispido ; race- 
mis axillaribus, solitariis vel plurimis, <S foliis longioribus, 
imo nudis ; rachi valde elongata, striata, patenter strigosa, 
ramis elongatis, divaricatis, fere capillaribus, glabris, sub- 
flexuosis, paucifloris, imo bractea lineari setoso-ciliata donatis; 
floribus sessilibus, fere ebracteatis. — In Africa Australi, ora 
orientali inter Mozimba et Ibo (lat. ll°aust.), v. s. in herb. 
Soc. Linn. (Wall. Cat. 4953, hort. Bot. Calc. cult.). 
I have nowhere seen native specimens of this species, the 
male plant of which was introduced, many years ago, from the 
locality above quoted into the Botanic Garden of Calcutta, where 
it is still cultivated. A long account of it was published 
by Dr. Berry, in the ‘Asiatie Researches^ (x. 385, t. 5). Its 
native place is 5° to the northward of Mozambique, where the 
former species is found. Its branches are soft and of very lax 
texture, of annual growth, seldom exceeding | inch diam. ; its 
leaves are not so membranaceous as those of the former species, 
and in no degree polished above, the reticulations being finer, 
more numerous, and more prominent : in the former species the 
incisures are acute ; here they are wide and rounded ; and the 
basal lobes, which in the former are longer, more parallel, and 
nearly overlapping one another, are here shorter and much di- 
varicated : the petiole is not so densely pilose, and is only half 
the thiekness of that of the former. The inflorescence is very dif- 
