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parvum aggregates apice gerentibus; in sepalis 6, sub- 
sequalibus, oblongo-ovatis, meinbranaceis, glabris; petalis 3, 
dimidio brevioribus, cuneato-orbicularibus ; in $ drupis gla- 
bris. — In Japonia, India orientali et insulis Philippinis : 
V. s. in herb. Lindl. et aliorum, cJ et $ ins, Philipp. (Cuming, 
1160) ; in herb. Hook. ? , Kurg (Hoot. & Th.) ; 2 , Concan 
(Gibson) ; J', Concan (Law), Ind. pen. cJ et 2 (Wight, 953). 
The above specimens are referred here because they accord 
with the descriptions of the Japanese plant as given by De Can- 
dolle and Lamarck. They are all glabrous, with slender branches, 
and with leaves 3-3| inches long, 2^-2| inches broad, scg^cely 
sinuated at base, with a very slender petiole 1^-2^ inches long, 
inserted 6-9 lines within the basal margin. The almost capil- 
lary ^ peduncle is Ij-l^ inch long; the umbels are 4-6 lines 
long ; the sepals are ovate, somewhat narrower at both extremi- 
ties, membranaceous, and glabrous; the drupe has a putamen 
with only eight radiating ridges on each side of the hippocrepical 
ring surrounding the perforated condyle. 
3. Stephania Walp. Rep. i. 96; — Clypea glaucescens. 
Dene. Nouv. Ann. Mus. iii. 423, tab. 18; — Cocculus Japonicus, 
var. Timoriensis, DC. Prodr .i.^Q •, — ramulis teneris, teretibus, 
striatis, glabris ; folds peltatis, deltoideo-orbicularibus, imo 
truncatis, a medio triangulatim angustioribus, apice acutis et 
mucronatis, 9-11-nerviis, utrinque glaberrimis, supra viridi- 
bus, subtus cano-glaucis, uervis extus ramosis venisque reti- 
culatis paulo prominulis ; petiolo tenui, glabro, limbo dimidio 
breviore ; paniculis ^ axillaribus, geminis vel solitariis, um- 
bellatis, glaberrimis ; pedunculo petiolo paululo breviore; um- 
bellis 3-5, pedunculo 5-plo brevioribus, imo subbracteolatis; 
umbellulis,3-5, brevibus, flores numerosos in capitulum glo- 
bosum apice gerentibus ; sepalis 6, spathulato-oblongis, sub- 
aequalibus, glaberrimis, tenuiter membranaceis ; petalis 3, 
carnosulis, margine tenuibus, suborbicularibus, 3-plo breviori- 
bus ; filamento brevi ; anthera 6-loba ; panicula 2 simillima, 
capitulis paucifloris ; sepalis 3, lanceolato-oblongis, membra- 
naceis; petalis 3, subrotundis; drupis glabris. — In insula 
Timor: v. s. in herb. Lindl. ^ , Timor (Decaisne). 
This species differs from the preceding in its more orbicular 
leaves, on much shorter petioles, and in its shorter inflorescence. 
The leaves in the above typical specimen are 3 inches long, 
2| inches broad, on a very slender petiole, 1| inch long, inserted 
5 lines within the basal margin. 
According to M. Decaisne, the leaves are acute and mucronated 
at the summit, 3-4 inches long, 2-3^ inches broad, on a petiole 
nearly 3 inches long; but in the plate above cited they are much 
