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CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOTANY. 
Ovarium uuicum, valde gibbosum, 1-loculare, 1-ovulatum. 
Stylus nullus. Stigmata 2-4, subsessilia, recui’vatim divari- 
cata. Drupa carnosa, gibba; putamen Cissampelidis et eo 
Stephanies diversum, condylo imperforato notatum. 
Frutices scandentes, in India, in Japonia, in insulis Asiaticis et 
Sandvicensibus crescentes ; folia peltata, oblonga vel sub- 
orbicularia, subcordata, apice scepius acuta, petiolata, glabra 
vel pubescentia ; inflorescentia in utroque sexu axillaris ; 
jiedimculus seepius solitarius, simpliciter vel iterum umbellatus ; 
flores numerosi, minuti, puberuli, crebre capitato-aggregati, 
plerumque e pedicellis confluentibus in discum carnosum eon- 
glut inati. 
1. Clypea acuminatissima, Bl. Bijdr. 26j — Stephania acuminatis- 
sima.,Walp.Rep. i. 96 ; — ramis teretibus, angulato-striatis, gla- 
bris; foliisprofundepeltatis,oblougis,imo orbicularibus,a medio 
seusiin attenuatis et longe acuminatis, mucronatis, lO-nerviis, 
utrinque pallidis et glaberrimis, supra subnitidis, subtus sor- 
dide glauceseentibus, iiervis prominulis ; petiolo tenui, limbo 
3-plo breviore, striato, glabro : paniculis ^ in axillis solitariis 
aut pluribus fasciculatis, umbellatis, brevibus, glaberrimis; 
pedunculo tenui, petiolo 4-plo breviore ; umbellis circiter 8, 
sequalibus, singulis flores numerosos sessiles miuutos in capi- 
tulum semiglobosum supra discum peltatum crebre congre- 
gates gerentibus ; sepalis cuneato-oblongis, apice dilatato et 
hie ad marginem inciso-crenatis, submembranaceis, nigro 
punctulatis, glabris ; petalis 4-plo brevioribus, cuneato-rhom- 
boideis, carnosulis, opacis, apice crenulatis ; anthera globosa, 
apice umbilicata, 4-locellata, locellis rima liorizontali valvatim 
hiantibus. — In Java ; v. s. in herb. Hook. (Lobb). 
This is Blume’s typical species, and is certainly well distin- 
guished from the others. The axils are about 3 inches apart; 
the leaves are 4 inches long, 2:^-2^ inches broad, on a petiole 
1 1 inch long, flxed about 9 lines within the basal margin : the 
peduncle is 5 lines long, its umbellate branches 3-5 lines long, 
each bearing a semiglobular head of numerous flowers upon a 
peltate disk flat beneath, 1^-1| line in diameter; the sepals are 
^ line long ; filament the same length. 
2. Clijpea oxyphylla, nob. ; — ramis contortis, teretibus, striatis, 
patentim mollissime puberulis ; foliis profunde peltatis, imo 
rotundatis, mox valde angustatis, apice longe acuminatis, 
acumine angusto, obtusulo et mucronato, 10-nerviis, margi- 
nibus e nervo circumambiente subrevolutis, supra nitidis, 
reticulatis, glabris (nervis puberulis exceptis), subtus pallide 
