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of Africa : the genus is therefore quite foreign to the continent 
of America. It may be here observed that the hairs of the 
pubescence, whenever found in this genus, are short and articu- 
lated, as they are likewise in Clypea. 
Stephania, Lour. ; — Clypea, W. ^ A. {non Bl.) ; — Cissampelos 
{in parte) auctorum) — Flores dioici. Masc. Sepala 6, spa- 
thulato-oblonga vel linearia, biseriata, quorum 3 interiora 
latiora, membranacea, sestivatione imbricata. Petala 3, sepalis 
exterioribus opposita, cuneato-rotunda vel ovata, breviora, 
carnosula. Stamen unicum, centrale; filamentum teres, se- 
palis sequilongum vel brevius ; anthera annularis, 6-locellata, 
ad marginem connectivi peltatim affixa, rima horizoutali dehis- 
cens. — Fcem. Sepala 3, cuneato-oblonga. Petala 3, sub- 
rotunda, subcuneata, carnosula. Stamina nulla. Ovarium 
ovatum, gibbum, glabrum, 1-loculare, ovulo solitario parieti 
appenso. Stylus subnullus. Stigma subsessile, excentricum, 
inaequaliter 3-6-laciniatum; laciniis acutis, subreflexis. Drupa 
carnosa, glabra; osseum,obovatum,valde compressum, 
1-loculare, loculo peripherico et hippocrepiformi circa con- 
dylum voluto, utrinque seriebus 2 concentricis tuberculorum 
liris s 0 epe connexis extus armato ; condylus excentralis, lamini- 
formis, discoideus, uti’inque subconcavus, medio foramine 
distincto perforatus. Semen hippocrepiforme, dorso convexum, 
ventre subplanum ; integumentum tenuiter membranaceum, 
linea longitudinali ad condylum affixum ; embryo in albumine 
simphci carnoso, hippocrepiformis, tenuiter elongatus, teres, 
cotyledonibus semiteretibus, incumbentibus, radicula supera 
tereti ad stylum spectante, iis sequilonga et sequilata. 
Frutices scandentes, in Asia intertropica, in insulis adjacentibus, 
necnon in Australia et Africa crescentes ; radix srepe tu- 
berosa ; csluMs' ramosus ; folia alterna, prof unde peltata, sub- 
orbicularia, deltoideo-ovata vel oblonga, integra vel sinuato- 
angulata, imo rotundata, truncata vel cordato-sinuata, palmati- 
nervia, scepius glabra : panicula in utroque sexu supra- axillaris, 
scepe longissime pedunculata, umbellatim ramosa ; umbellis 
iterum umbellulatis, multifloris ; flores minuti, in capitulum 
dense aggregati, vel laxe corymbulosi. 
1. Stephania longa, Lour. Coch. ii. 747; — Cocculus Roxburghi- 
anus. Wall, in parte {non DC.) ; — ramulis angulato-striatis, 
glaberrimis; foliis profunde peltatis, deltoideo-oblongis, imo 
late semiorbiculatis vel rotundatis, a medio gradatim acutis 
aut longiuscule acuminatis, acumine augusto, obtuso, mucro- 
nulato, 10-12-nerviis, utrinque glaberrimis, supra nitidis, 
viridibus, subtus cano- vel brunneo-glaucis, nervis venisque 
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