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ferous state the umbels are 4 lines long, with setaceous bracts ; 
but when fructiferous they grow to a length of from | to inch, 
bearing on their summit a small globular head of abortive flowers 
and from one to three glabrous drupes 5 lines long, 4 lines 
broad ; the putaraen is marked with rather distant, raised, ra- 
diating striae. 
10. Stephania intertexta, nob.; — ramulis teretibus, subcom- 
pressis, striatis, glabris ; foliis profunde peltatis, suborbiculari- 
ovatis, imo sinu levissimo aut obsoleto subtruncatis, ultra 
medium angustioribus, apice rotundiuscule obtuso et emargi- 
iiato, 10-nerviis, utrinque glaberrimis, supra nervis paulo 
prominulis, subtus pallidioribus vel rufo-glaucis, nervis venis- 
que paulo prominulis, rubescentibus ; petiolo compresso, limbo 
paulo breviore, glabro, striato, imo torto : panicula ^ axillari, 
umbellata, glaberrima, pedunculo petiolo 3-plo breviore ; um- 
bellis 5-8, pedunculo 3-plo vel dimidio brevioribus, apice 
flores plurimos minimos in capitulum aggregates gerentibus ; 
sepalis 6, cuneato-oblongis, glaberrimis, fusco-membraniceis ; 
petalis obovatis, dimidio brevioribus, aut multo minoribus, 
fuscis, carnosulis : panicula $ axillari, glabra; pedunculo pe- 
tiolo dimidio breviore ; umbellis 5-8, imo bracteolatis, pedun- 
culo 3-plo brevioribus, flores 5-9 sessiles in capitulum ag- 
glomerates apice gerentibus; sepalis 3, cuneato-ovatis, fusco- 
submembranaceis, glabris; petalis 3, cuneato-orbicularibus, 
paulo brevioribus, fuscis ; ovario glabro; drupis glabris, pericarpio 
laxo, putamine hippocrepice radiatim et crebre lirato, condylo 
perforate. — In Ceylonia : v. s. in herb. Hook. et $ , Ceylon 
(Mrs. Gen .Walker; Gardner, 32); Kandy (Thwaites, 2757). 
This species appears peculiar to the island of Ceylon, and is 
recognized by its very glabrous habit, very broad leaves upon 
long petioles, its short ^ glabrous panicles, which in the $ are 
much larger. The leaves are 3|^'| inches long, 3|-4| inches 
broad, on a petiole 3-4 inches long, inserted f-1 inch within the 
basal margin : the peduncle in the ^ panicle is 9 lines long, its 
six or seven umbels 3 lines long, with many almost sessile 
flowers closely aggregated into a globular head, each generally 
with an oblong bract : the peduncle in the $ raceme is l|-lf 
inch long, the umbels 6-9 lines long. 
11. Stephania hernandifolia, M'^alp. Rep. i. 96; nob. in Ann. Nat. 
Hist. 2 ser. vii. 40; Hook. & Th. (in parte) FI. Ind. i. 196 ; — 
Cissampelos hernandifolia, Willd. iv. 861 ; Roxb. FI. Ind. iii. 
482; DC. Syst. i. 533, Prodr. i. 100; — Cissampelos hexandra, 
Roxb. ibid. 841 ; — Clypea hernandifolia, W. ^ A. Prodr. i. 14; 
Wight. Icon. tab. 939; — ramulis teneribus, striatis, breviter 
