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in different specimens, being 3— 4| inches long, 2^-4^ inches 
broad, on a petiole 3-6 inches long, inserted |-lj inch within 
the basal margin. The peduncle is If inch, sometimes even 
4^ inches long, the umbels being 12-21 lines long, and their 
paniculated rays 3 lines long. The $ peduncle is 3 inches long, 
the umbels 4-6 lines, the linear acute bracts 3 lines long, the 
flowers being subagglomerated. The specimen from Rangoon 
has much smaller leaves, with very long petioles ; its ^ capillary 
peduncles and umbels are elongated in proportion ; that from 
Martaban has its leaves more suddenly acuminated towards the 
summit, and somewhat rounder at base, 4^-4f inches long, 
3| inches broad, on a petiole 2^-3 inches long, inserted 10 lines 
within the margin ; its ^ peduncle is 2^ inches long, its umbels 
1^ inch, their umbellules 2 lines long, furnished with alternate 
pedicellated flowers, forming subcorymbulose heads. 
8. Stephania glandulifera, nob. •, — Stephania rotunda. Hook, ^ 
Th. {non Lour.) FI. Ind. i. 197 ; — ramis lignosis, ligno striato 
et lurido, cortice brunneo, laxo, valde tuberculoso; ramulis 
sulcato-striatis, fuscis, tortis ; folds profunde peltatis, longis- 
sime petiolatis, subrotundis, imo rotundis vel sinu levi trun- 
catis, ultra medium gradatim angustioribus, marginibus in- 
tegris vel lobato-sinuatis, apice obtusis et mucronulatis, utrin- 
que glaberrimis, 10-nerviis, supra fusco-opacis, subtus glauco- 
pallidioribus; petiolo tenui, subeompresso, sulcato-striato, imo 
paulo incrassato et torto, limbo nonnihil longiore : pedunculo 
supra-axillari, petiolo dimidio breviore, apiee umbellas 9- 
12 imo bracteolatas fulciente, quarum 3-6 iterum umbelln- 
latse, in omnibus pedicellis brevibus imo bracteolatis l-floris 
in capitulum aggregatis; floribus progenere majusculis, siccis 
nigrescentibus ; sepalis 6, lequalibus, spathulato-ovatis, cras- 
siusculis, extus glanduloso-papillosis ; petalis 3, paulo bre- 
vioribus, cuneato-orbicularibus, carnosis, valde concavis; fila- 
mento petalis vix longiore ; anthera 6-loba : pedunculo ? 
supra-axillari, petiolo dimidio longiore, validiusculo, com- 
presso, apice dilatato; umbellis plurimis, iterum umbellulatis, 
vel ramis plurimis subsecundis plurifloris munitis ; putamine 
4-seriatim tuberculato, tuberculorum seriebus 2 periphericis, 
2 alteris lateralibus, tuberculis erectis, apice late clavatis. — In 
Sikhim et Khasya : v. s. in herb. Hook. cJet $ (Hook. & Th.). 
This is one of the several very distinct species amalgamated 
by the authors of the ‘ Flora Indica ’ with S. rotunda. It is 
easily recognized from all by the peculiar features above de- 
scribed : it is also distinguishable by the inflorescence becoming 
very black in drying. It is known in the country of Sikhim by 
the name of Kuntea-pot. The branches are covered with a lax 
