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De Candolle upon characters which the above diagnosis amply 
confirms. Wight and Arnott (FI. Penin. i. 450) have not suc- 
ceeded in clearing the confusion respecting it. It differs from 
Stephania rotunda, to which it has been referred as above cited, 
in its smaller leaves, often puberulous below, with a peculiar 
glaucous hue, and with shorter petioles, shorter panicles with sub- 
puberulous flowers. From S. hernandifolia it differs in its shorter, 
broader, more trigonoid, not acuminated, leaves, which are ge- 
nerally glabrous, in its more glabrous flowers, for the sepals 
bear only a few hairs on the midrib, not altogether externally 
pubescent as in the other instance, and in its putamen, which is 
larger, has fewer crenulations, and a more expanded condyle 
with a larger perforation. The leaves are 2|-4^ inches long, 
2|^-3^ inches broad, on a petiole 11-18 lines long, inserted 
6-9 lines within the basal margin ; the peduncle is 9 lines long, 
with six umbellate pedicels 4 lines long. 
6. Stephania glabra, nob.; — S. rotunda, H. Th. in parte {non 
Lour.) FI. Ind. i. 198 ; — Cissampelos glabra, Roxb. FI. Ind. 
iii. 840; — Clypea Wightii, Arn. in Wight. III. i. 22; — 
Cocculus Roxburghianus, Wall. Cat. {non DC.) ; — Cocculus 
Finlaysonianus, Wall. Cat.-, — alte scandens, radice tuberosa, 
compresso-globosa, ssepe gigantea; caule brevi, mox ramoso, 
ramulis teretibus, ssepe tenuibus, profunde striatis, glabris; 
folds ssepius majusculis, longissime petiolatis, profunde pel- 
tatis, deltoideo-orbiculatis, imo subrotundatis, a medio sensim 
angustioribus, apice obtusulis aut fere acutis, marginibus 
ssepe sinuato-angulatis, submembranaceis, 10-12-nerviis, 
nervis tenuissimis extus ramosis, venis inconspicuis, utrinque 
glaberrimis, supra opace viridibus, planis, subtus fulvido- 
glaucis, nervis venisque vix prominulis, valde reticulatis, ni- 
grescentibus aut rubescentibus ; petiolo tenui, sulcato-striato, 
subcompresso, glabro, limbo subsequilongo aut valde longiore: 
panicula supra-axillari, umbellata, glaberrima, elongata ; 
pedunculo gracili, petiolo breviore; umbellis 6-8, filiformibus, 
dimidio brevioribus, imo bracteolis totidem subulatis donatis; 
umbellulis 6, apice laxe capitato-corymbulosis ; floribus alter- 
natim longiuscule pedicellatis, parvis ; sepalis 6, spathulato- 
oblongis, membranaceis, glabris ; petalis paulo brevioribus, 
latioribus, cuneato-ovatis, crassioribus, glabris, glandulis 2 
collateralibus elevatis intus ad medium notatis ; panicula $ 
supra-axillari, umbellata, glaberrima; pedunculo brevi, um- 
bellisque 5-14 triple brevioribus, compresso-striatis, apice 
dilatatis, iterum umbellatim brevissime 4-5-radiatis, radiis 
alternatim paucifloris et corymbulosis ; sepalis nullis aut 
rarius unico (2 abortientibus) ; petalis 3, oblongis aut ovatis, 
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