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puberulis ; petiolo subvalido, valde compresso, sulcato-striato, 
fusco, subpubescente, limbo paulo dimidio vel triple breviore : 
panicula ^ axillari, umbellata, puberula, pedunculo petiolo 
multo breviore; umbellis circiter 5 aut 6, pedunculo dimidio 
vel triple brevioribus; umbellulis 5 vel 6, singulis flores 15 
parvulos brevissime pedicellatos in capitulum aggregates 
gerentibus ; sepalis 6, subaequalibus, spatliulato-ovatis, extus 
molliter puberulis ; petalis 3, dimidio brevioribus, cuneato- 
orbicularibus, carnosis, glaberrimis; anthera 6-locellata. — In 
Khasya: v. s. in herb. Hook. ^ , Mucklow (Hook. & Th.). 
This agrees with the two preceding species in the pubescence 
of its leaves, but differs in their being still larger, more orbicular, 
upon much longer, thicker, compressed petioles, which are more 
deeply inserted within their nearly orbicular basal margin. The 
internodes are 3^ inches long; the leaves are 5-6 inches long, 
4j-4| inches broad, on a petiole 2-3^ inches long, inserted 15- 
20 lines within the basal margin : the peduncle of the panicle 
is Ij-l^ inch long, the five umbels 4-5 lines long, with six 
umhellules 1 line long, each bearing a globular head, 1 line in 
diameter, consisting of fifteen very shortly pedicellated very 
minute flowers ; the sepals are densely pubescent outside. 
14. Stephania Gaudichaudii, A. Gray, in Bot. Wilkes’s Exped. i. 
37 ; — ramulis tenerrimis, striatis, glabris ; foliis parvulis, pel- 
tatis, deltoideo-ovatis, imo truncatis aut levissime sinuatis, 
ultra medium angustioribus, summum versus subito con- 
strictis, acumine brevi obtuso et mucronato, 10-nerviis, reti- 
culatis, supra fuscis, nitidis, glabris, subtus ferrugineo- vel 
sordide glaucis, pilis brevissimis articulatis tomentellis, nervis 
rufescentibus ; petiolo tenui, limbo dimidio vel triplo breviore, 
subpuberulo : panicula ^ axillari, umbellata, puberula ; pedun- 
culo petiolo breviore; umbellis 3, apice flores plurimos dis- 
cretes in capitulum aggregates gerentibus; sepalis 6, bi- 
seriatis, spathulato-oblongis, extus pilosulis ; petalis 3, dimidio 
brevioribus, cuneato-orbiculatis, glabris. — In Australia : v. s. 
in herb. De Candolle ^ , Port Jackson (Gaudichaud, 34). 
This is the most slender and smallest species of the genus ; 
its branches are extremely slender and flexuous, with internodes 
1^-1| inch long; the leaves are 1^-2 inches long, lf-l| inch 
broad, on a petiole 10-12 lines long, inserted 4-5 lines within 
the margin of the limb. The axillary peduncle is 6 lines long, 
the umbels 3 lines long, each with three secondary umbels 1 line 
long, and floriferous at the apex; many minute flowers, on ex- 
tremely short or almost obsolete pedicels, are aggregated in a 
capitular head ; the bracts at the base of the primary and se- 
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