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verrucose bark, the wood beneath being simply striated. The 
leaves are 3-4 inches long, 3-3^ inches broad, on a flattened 
petiole 4-4h inches long, inserted 7-9 lines within the basal 
margin. The peduncle is 1^-2^ inches long, much flattened, 
narrow, ribbon-shaped, terminated by six filamentous umbels 
3-6 lines long, each with from three to four umbellulesl^-2 lines 
long, and bearing a capitate head of few pedicellated flowers ; 
pedicels 1| line long; flower expanded 2 lines, all quite glabrous 
and black in drying ; sepals six, spathulate-oblong, 1 line long, 
fuscous, covered outside at the apex with close papillose glands; 
petals three, f line long, orbicular, with inflected margins, some- 
what cuneate at base, dark, very fleshy ; filament as long as the 
petals : in the ? flower the fructiferous peduncle is often 5 inches 
long, very dark, expanding gradually towards its summit to a 
breadth of 1| line, where it has several umbels, varying in length 
according to the maturity of the ovules, flattened and dilated at 
the apex, and bearing several pedicellated drupes ; the pedicels 
2-3 lines long ; the drupes 4 lines long, 3 lines broad ; the pu- 
tamen 3 lines long, 2^ lines broad, with long, erect, and singu- 
larly clavated tubercles ; the condyle is perforated. 
9. Stephania appendiculata, nob. ; — ramulis teretibus, subspira- 
liter sulcato-striatis, glaberrimis; foliis profunde peltatis, 
deltoideo-oblongis, imo truncato-rotundatis, a medio sensim 
acutioribus, subacuminatis, acumine acutiusculo vel obtusulo, 
mucronato, 12-nerviis, utrinque glaberrimis, marginibus sub- 
reflexis, supra nitidis, nervis venisque reticulatis prominulis, 
subtus pallide glaucis, nervis prominentibus ; petiolo com- 
presso, striato, glabro, limbo dimidio breviore : panicula $ 
axillari, umbellata, glaberrima; pedunculo subtenui, com- 
presso, striato, petiolo paulo longiore; umbellis circiter 5, 
florescentibus pedunculo 4-plo, fructiferis dimidio breviori- 
bus; bracteis raajusculis, foliiformibus, palato-petiolulatis vel 
bracteolis setaceis donatis ; floribus minutis, capitato-agglo- 
meratis ; sepalis 3, spathulato-ovatis, membranaceis, glabris ; 
petalis 3, brevioribus, cuneato-orbicularibus, crenulatis, fus- 
cioribus, glabris ; ovario glabro ; drupis majusculis, stipitatis. 
— In Indise peninsula ; v. s. in herb, meo et Hook,, Neilgherries 
(Gardner). 
A species easily recognized by its rigid and very glabrous 
habit, and by the presence of leaf-shaped petiolated bracts at the 
base of, and as long as, the umbels. In habit it somewhat re- 
sembles S. hypoglauca, but it differs in its larger, more peltate, 
and more pointed leaves. The leaves are 5 inches long, 4 inches 
broad, on a petiole 2 inches long, inserted 9 lines within the 
basal tnargin. The ? peduncle is 2f inches long; in the flori- 
