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smaller and obtuse at the apex, the largest leaf being 2| inches 
long, 2^ inches broad, on a petiole If inch long — dimensions 
which conform with the specimen I have seen. The slender ^ 
peduncle is 11-15 lines long, the umbels 2-3 lines long, the 
umbeUules | line, bearing a globular head 1 line in diameter, 
consisting of about one hundred very minute glabrous dowers. 
i\I. Decaisne considers this species to be similar to the Clypea 
venosa of Blume, with whose description Cuming’s plant from 
the Philippine Islands well accords, and which I have referred 
to Stephania Japonica. The latter plant differs from that from 
Timor in its more slender habit, in its narrower, more oblong, 
and decidedly acuminate leaves upon much longer and far more 
delicate petioles, and a much more slender and more elongated 
panicle, with longer umbels in both sexes. 
4. Stephania rotunda, Lour, (non H. & Th.) Coch. ii. 747 ; Hook. 
& Th. in parte, FI. Ind. i. 197 ; — radice elongata, fusiformi, 
apice in tuber magnum, subrotundum, fuscum, epigseum di- 
latata; ramulis teretibus, striatis, glabris, nigrescentibus ; foliis 
profunde peltatis, deltoideo-rotundatis, imo truncatis, vel sinu 
latissimo leviter subcordatis, a medio sensim angustioribus, 
apice acutis vix acuminatis, membranaceis, fuscis, utrinque 
glaberrimis, 9-11-nerviis, supra viridibus, nervis tenuibus vix 
prominulis, subtus paulo pallidioribus, cinereo- vel fusco- 
glaucis, nervis prominulis venisque rufescentibus aut uigres- 
centibus ; petiolo tenui, striato, glabro, limbo subsequilongo : 
panicula ^ axillari, umbellata, glaberrima, nigrescente ; pedun- 
culo liliformi, petiolo dimidio vel triplo breviore ; umbellis 8- 
12, sextuplo brevioribus ; umbellulis 4, crebre et alternatim 
3-4-floris ; floribus subnigris, brevissime pedicellatis, in capi- 
tulum congregatis ; sepalis 6, glaberrimis, spathulato-oblongis, 
submembranaceis, nervo mediano fusco et extus ruguloso; 
petalis 3, cuneato-orbiculatis, imo carnosulis ; anthera 6-loba. 
— In Cochin-China et Himalaya : v. s. in herb. Mus. Brit. ^ , 
Cochin-China (Loureiro) ; in herb. Hook. $ , Kumaon (Thom- 
son, 1227). 
This species, well identified by the original type in the British 
Museum and by Loureiro’s description, is distinct from many 
plants that have been referred to it by botanists. The authors 
of the ‘Flora Indica’ have confounded it with the Cissampelos 
glabra of Roxburgh, the Cocculus Roxburghii of Wallich (not of 
De Candolle), and with several other species here described. It 
differs from S. glabra in its smaller, dusky leaves upon much 
shorter petioles, and in its very short J* panicles with eglandular 
petals; from S. glandulifera for the same reasons and other ob- 
vious characters. It is evidently a somewhat succulent plant. 
