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CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOTANY. 
3 inches long, 2J inches broad, on a petiole 1^-2 inches long, 
inserted f inch within the margin of the basal sinus. The 
peduncle of the ? inflorescence is 1 inch long, its umbels 4-6 
lines long. The specimen is in fruit only, the drupes being 
3 lines long ; and the putamen has an imperforate condyle. 
7. Chjpea meridiana, nob. ; — ramulis teneris, subpuberulis ; foliis 
profunde peltatis, deltoideo-ovatis, imo valde rotundis, ultra 
medium gradatim angustioribus, acutis, mucronatis (in ? mi- 
noribus et suborbicularibus), 12-nerviis, supra subnitidis, 
glabris, valde reticulatis, subtus flavide glaucis, puberulis, 
marginibus subrevolutis ; petiolo subtenui, striato, puberulo, 
limbo diraidio breviore: panicula axillari, umbellata, pubes- 
cente; pedunculo tenui, petiolo paulo breviore; umbellis 5-plo 
brevioribus circiter 7; umbellulis circiter 8, pedicellos 3 fasci- 
culatos 1-floros apice gerentibus; sepalis 8, biserialiter sub- 
sequalibus, cuneato-oblongis, membranaceis, omnino glabris ; 
filamento brevi; anthera 8-loba: panicula $ axillari, umbel- 
lata ; pedunculo petiolo paulo breviore ; umbellis 6, dimidio 
brevioribus; umbellulis 4, apice pedicellis 3 fructiferis mu- 
nitis. — In CafFraria: v. s. in herb. Hook. et ? , Natal 
(Gerard, 1468), sub nom. “ Homocnemia Meyeriana." 
These are the specimens to which I have previously alluded 
[ante, p. 127), which I found affixed upon the same sheet as the 
typical specimen of Homocnemia Meyeriana, and supposed by 
the collector to be identical with it; but they are extremely 
difierent in all respects. It is the only African species of Clypea 
yet known, and is remarkable for being found as far beyond the 
southern tropic, as the two preceding species extend beyond the 
northern tropical zone. The internodes are S^-4< inches long ; 
the leaves iu the plant are 3^-4 inches long, 2|-3 inches 
broad, on a petiole 1| inch long, inserted 9-10 lines within the 
orbicular basal margin : in the $ specimen they are 2-2| inches 
long, 2^-2^ inches broad, on a petiole 1;^ inch long, inserted 
7-9 lines within the margin. The ^ peduncle is inch long, 
the umbels 3 lines, the umbellules 1 line, the pedicels | line long : 
the ? peduncle is 8 lines long, the umbels 4 lines, the umbellules 
2 lines, the fructiferous pedicels 1^ line long; the putamen is 
3 lines long, 2| lines broad, with an imperforate condyle. 
29. Stephania. 
This genus, proposed by Loureiro in 1793 for two plants of 
Chinese origin, was for a long time wholly neglected; at length 
it was acknowledged by botanists, and so far extended by some 
as to embrace Blume's genus Clypea ; others, on the contrary. 
