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as it grows black in drying, and is remarkable for its large 
tuberous root, wbicb is, perhaps, not of unfrequent occurrence in 
the genus and has been noticed in two other species ; but there 
it is hypogeous, while here it is epigeous and is elongated be- 
neath into a long fusiform root. Its very twisting branches are 
slender; the only full-grown leaf in the typical specimen is 
3^ inches long, 3 inches broad ; the petiole, which is incom- 
plete, appears to have been nearly of equal length, and is in- 
serted 6 lines within the margin of the very shallow basal sinus; 
in a young leaf on the same specimen, the petiole is about the 
length of the blade. The ^ peduncle is 7 lines long, the umbels 
2 lines long. I have referred here the specimen from Kumaon, 
which agrees well in the same characters : its leaves are 3^-3| 
inches long, 3^-3^ inches broad, on a petiole 2|-3f inches long, 
inserted 9-10 lines within the basal margin ; its peduncle is 
7 lines, its umbels 2 lines long : its floral parts are similar, and 
all equally dark and glabrous. 
5. Stephania Roxhurghiana, nob. ; — Stephania rotunda, H. ^ Th. 
in parte {non Lour.) FI. Ind. i. 197; — Cocculus Roxburghianus, 
DC. SysL i. 516, Prodr. i. 96 {non Wall.) ; — Cissampelos hex- 
andra, Roxb. FI. Ind. iii. 841 ; — Cissampelos Fata, Buck, {non 
Roxb.) ; — Cissampelos Finlaysoniana, Wall, {in parte) ; — 
ramulis teneribus, teretibus, subglabris ; foliis profunde pel- 
tatis, deltoideo-ovatis, imo rotundis vel truncatis, a medio 
angustioribus, apice subacutis vel obtusis et emarginatis, 
margine integro, 10-nerviis, supra glaberrimis, Isete virentibus 
aut pallescentibus, venis reticulatis immersis, subtus cano-, 
flavido- vel thalassino-glaucescentibus, opacis, nervis paulo 
prominulis, rarius subpuberulis, saepius omnino glabris; petiolo 
limbo dimidio vel 3-plo breviore: panicula (Jaxillari; pedunculo 
petiolo breviore, apice 6-unibellato; umbellis pedunculo brevio- 
ribus; floribus globoso-capitatis : in $ umbellis pedunculo 
dimidio brevioribus, fructiferis cunctis longioribus. — In India 
orientali : v. s. in herb. Mus. Brit. $ , sub Ciss. hexandra, 
Roxb. j^species typica) ; $ , Ciss. Pata, Buch. (non Roxb.) ; 
in herb. Hook, prope Pubna, Bengal (H. & Th.), Bunsal 
(Thwaites), Wall. Cat. 4977 ; in herb. Soc. Linn. $ , Madras 
(Wall. Cat. 4977 d a, non i); et $ , Siam (ibid. 4974, sub 
Ciss. Finlaysoniana), Moulmein (ibid. 4977 h), Moulmein 
(Wall. 1291), Sylhet (Wall. Cat. 4977 f).. 
This species must not be confounded with the Cissampelos 
hexandra, Ham., in the Wallichian Collection (4977 a and 
4977 b), which is Stephania hernandifolia. It is also veiy dis- 
tinct from the C. Roxburghianus, Wall. The authors of the 
‘ Flora Indica ’ doubt the validity of this species, established by 
