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base 1 line long ; the umbellules are 1-3 lines long, or are some- 
times much shorter, are surmounted by a corymbulose head of 
flowers, which are larger than in the preceding species, on 
pedicels 1 line long, furnished with a somewhat shorter brac- 
teole ; the eight sepals, quite glabrous and membranaceous, are 
1 line long, the four petals being ^ line long and broad. 
^ 4. Clypea Forsteri, nob.; — Cocculus Forsteri, DC. Syst. i. 517, 
Prodr. i. 96; Guillem. Zeph. Tahit. p. 76; — Stephania For- 
steri, A. Gray, in Bot. Wilkes. Exped. i. 36; — Menispermum 
Japonicum, Forst. {non Thunb.) FI. Ins. Austr. p. 71 (edit. 
1771) ; — Menispermum peltatum, Soland. {non Lam.) Primit. 
FI. Ins. Oc. Pac. 343 (edit. 1769); Parkinson, MS. Plant. Otah. 
(iVie^?.) ii. p. 114; — ramulis striatis, glabris; foliis profunde 
peltatis, deltoideo-orbicularibus vel ovalioribus, imo rotundi- 
useulis et truncatis, vel sinu levissimo lato obsolete cordatis, 
a medio sensim angustioribus, apice acutis vel obtuse acumi- 
natis, mucronulatis, 10-12-nerviis, supra Isete viridibus, valde 
reticulatis, nitidiusculis, utrinque glaberrimis, marginibus 
subrevolutis, subtus pallide vel flavide glaucis, nervis venis- 
que brunneis, tenuibus, \dx prominulis ; petiolo tenui, strio- 
lato, glabro, imo tortulo et tumidulo, in ^ limbo multo bre- 
viore, in $ limbo lequilongo vel longiore : panicula ^ axillari, 
umbellata, glaberrima vel pilis patentibus articulatis puberula; 
pedunculo tenuissimo, petioli fere longitudine; umbellis 7-9, 
pedunculo 8-plo brevioribus; floribus minimis, capitato- 
congestis : panicula ? simillima ; pedunculo filiformi, petiolo 
3— 4-plo breviore; umbellis 5-6, brevibus, capitulis 12-15- 
floris ; floribus sessilibus, creberrime aggregatis; sepalis 4; 
petalis 2 ; ovario glabro ; putamine radiatim spinuloso, con- 
dylo irnperforatp. — In insulis Societatis : v. s. in herb. Mus. 
Brit. , Tahiti (Solander); ? , Tahiti (Forster, planta typica), 
ib. (Banks and Solander); in herb. Hook. ^ , Tahiti et Tonga- 
taboo (MTlkes). 
This species is fully described by Solander in the unpublished 
manuscript work above referred to, and is illustrated in a volume 
of beautiful coloured drawings, also unpublished, both existing 
in the British Museum, Solander’s original specimens being 
there also preserved. Forster, who accompanied Capt. Cook on 
his second voyage, collected another specimen, also existing in 
the Museum herbarium, and which he referred to Thunberg’s 
plant. The species differs from all the preceding in its larger 
and more orbicular leaves, remarkable for their very elongated 
petiole in the $ specimens, which is much shorter in the ^ . 
The leaves are 3^-5;^ inches long, 3|-4| inches broad, on a 
petiole 2-2 j inches long in the ^ , and 4J inches long in the $ . 
The J' peduncle is 1^-2 inches long, the umbels 3 lines long ; 
