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many characters, especially in its glabrous habit. The leaves in 
the plant are 2^ inches long, 2^ inches broad, on a petiole 
1-1^ inch long, inserted 5-6 lines within the basal margin ; in 
the ? plant they are 2^-4 inches long, 2|:-3f inches broad, on 
a petiole 2 inches long, inserted 10 lines within the margin. 
The (J peduncle is 6 lines long, its umbels 4 lines : the ? pedun- 
cle is |-1 inch long, its umbels 4-5 lines, the umbellules in fruit 
2| lines long. 
17. Stephania hypoglauca, nob.; — Cissampelos discolor. Wall, in 
parte ; — ramulis tenuibus, glabris ; foliis minus peltatis, del- 
toideo-orbiculatis, imo sinuato-truncatis, deinde angustioribus, 
apice rotundato-obtusis et valde emarginatis, coriaceis, mar- 
ginibus revolutis, sub-lO-nerviis, utrinque glaberrirais, supra 
pallidis, subtus pallidioribus, nervis prominulis ; petiolo tenui, 
striato, glabro, limbo dimidio breviore : panicula ? axillari, 
umbellata, folio duplo longiore, glaberrima ; pedunculo tenui, 
elongate, petiolo 3-plo longiore, suberecto ; umbellis 3, diva- 
ricatim radiatis, subinsequalibus, pedunculo dimidio vel tertia 
brevioribus, apice capitato plurifloris ; floribus sessilibus, in 
receptaculo arete agglutinatis ; sepalis et petalis (utrisque 3) 
ovarioque glabris. — In India orientali : v. s. in herb. Soc. Linn. 
$ , Nielgherries, Noton (Wall. Cat. 4982 a. a, non a. b). 
This specimen was considered by Dr. Wallich identical with 
the ? plant of Cyclea versicolor (his Cissampelos discolor), which 
is fastened on the same sheet, but which is a very different 
plant : it resembles it somewhat in the form and texture of its 
coriaceous leaves, but has a widely diflferent kind of inflorescence, 
and flowers of another structure. In the rigidity of its leaves 
it approximates somewhat to another Nielgherry species, S. ap- 
pendiculata ; but the difference between them is very wide. It 
is a climbing plant, of very glabrous habit, having very slender 
branches with axils |-1 inch apart ; the leaves are 1^-2 inches 
long, If inch broad, on a very slender petiole 1-lg- inch long, 
inserted 2^-3 lines within the margin of the basal sinus. The 
very slender $ peduncle is 2| inches long, its umbels ^-1 inch 
long, obsoletely umbellulate at their apex, with numerous gla- 
brous flowers and half-grown drupes. 
18. Stephania elegans, Hook. & Th. FI. lud. i. 195 ; — ramulis 
tenuibus, striatis, glabris, triangulari- et lanceolato-oblongis, 
imo truncatis aut subcordatis, dehinc sensim acutis, apice 
mucronulatis, margine reflexo sublimbatis, 10-nerviis, utrin- 
que glaberrimis, reticulatis, supra nitidis, viridibus, subtus 
pallidioribus, nervis rufescentibus prominulis ; petiolo sub- 
tenui, nitido, striato, limbo breviore vel rarius aequilongo ; 
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