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reticulatis, paulo prominentibus, nervis circa petiolum mem- 
brana ssepe nexis ; petiolo glabro, striato, limbo breviore : 
panicula umbellata, tomentosa; pedunculo petiolo dimidio 
vel triplo breviore ; umbellis 6, paulo brevioribus ; umbellulis 
3, 4-plo brevioribus; pedicellis plurimis, fasciculatis, apice 
flores 3 sessiles gerentibus ; floribus miuutis pedicellisque in 
capitulum aggregatis ; sepalis 6, spathulato-oblongis, extus 
subpuberulis ; petalis 3, cuneatim deltoideis, fuscis, glabris ; 
anthera exserta, 6-loba. — In India et China; Cocbin-China 
(Loureiro) : v. s. in herb. Miis. Brit. ^ , China (Staunton), 
hort. bot. Calc, culta (Roxburgh) ; in herb. Soc. Linn. , hort. 
bot. Calcut. cult. (Wall. Cat. 4972 h'., b, c, non a, nec b, nec c) ; 
in herb. Hook. ^ , ad pedes montium Khasyse (Hook. & Th.). 
This plant, in the Wallichian collection, obtained from the 
Botanic Garden of Calcutta, was probably introduced there from 
China. It accords well with Loureiro’s character ; it is very 
distinct from the same numbers marked a, b, and c in Wallich’s 
Catalogue. It may be recognized by its more deeply peltate 
leaves, semiorbicular at base, with the upper moiety in the shape 
of a long acute-angled triangle, more or less attenuated towards 
the summit, and upon a slender petiole, around which the nerves 
are united by a webbed membrane. It differs from C. Japonica 
in having a membrane at the origin of the nerves, and in its 
shorter petiole. The leaves are 3-4j inches long, 2^-2| inches 
broad, on a petiole 1 inch long, which is inserted 9-10 lines 
within the basal margin. The (j' peduncle is f inch long, the 
primary umbels f inch long, the secondary rays 2 lines long; 
the sepals are membranous, nearly glabrous, clothed outside at 
base with a few articulated hairs. 
2. Stephania Japonica, nob.; — Cocculus Japonicus, DC. Syst. i. 
516, Prodr. i. 96; — Menispermum Japonicum, Thunb. Jap. 
195; Lam. Diet. iv. 96; — Clypea venosa, Bl. Bijdr. 27; — 
Stephania venosa, Walp. Rep. i. 96 ; — ramulis teneris, con- 
tortim sulcato-striatis, glabris; foliis peltatis, deltoideo-ob- 
longis, imo sinu levissimo truncatis vel rotundiusculis, a 
medio sensim angustioribus, apicem versus acuminatis, acu- 
mine angusto, acuto vel ssepe obtusulo, mucronato, 9-11- 
nerviis, reticulatis, utrinque glaberrimis, marginibus tenuibus 
revolutis, supra pallide viridibus, nitidis, subtus glaucis, 
opacis, nervis nitidis rufulis prominulis ; petiolo valde tenui, 
limbo subsequilongo vel paulo breviore, striato, glabro, imo 
torto et tumidulo, apice fusco : paniculis in utroque sexu 
axillaribus, solitariis vel geminis, umbellatis, glabris ; pedun- 
culo tenui, petiolo breviore ; umbellis 3-8 iteramque umbel- 
lulatis, ramulis ultimis flores numerosos minutos in capitulum 
