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CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOTANY. 
glaucis, subtus pallidissimis ; petiolo elongato, tenuissimo, 
pallidoj limbo fere duplo longiore. — la Australia: v.s. in herb. 
Hook., Fitzroy and Stokes range (F. Mueller). 
A specimen without flowers, with quite the habit of a Stepha- 
nia, growing on rocky declivities above the cataracts in the 
Fitzroy and Stokes range. The slender virgate branches have 
internodes l|-2 inches long; the leaves are 2-2f inches long, 
2j-2| inches broad, on a very slender petiole 3-4 inches long, 
inserted 8-9 lines within the basal margin. It has no resem- 
blance to any other species of the genus. 
22. Stephania prcelata, nob. ; — ramulis subangulatis, striatis, 
compressis, sordide tomentellis; foliis profunde peltatis, del- 
toideo-ovatis, imo suborbicularibus et leviter sinuatis, gradatim 
angustioribus, apice subacutis, submucronulatis, submembra- 
naceis, 9-nerviis, supra subnitentibus, glabris, nervis strami- 
neis, reticulatis, subtus pallidioribus, glaucis, cinereo tomen- 
tosis, nervis paulo prominulis ; petiolo subtenui, imo crassiore, 
limbo sequilongo aut longiore, tomentello : panicula J' supra- 
axillari, iterum umbellata, tomentella; pedunculo petiolo 
breviore, tenuissimo; umbellis circiter 5, bracteolis 1 vel 2 
parvulis acutissimis munitis ; umbellulis 6-7, obsolete brac- 
teolatis, brevissimis; floribus minutis, subcorymbosis ; sepalis 
cuneato-ovatis, glabris ; petalis dimidio bi’evioribus, latioribus, 
imo cuneatis, apice sinuato-3-lobulatis ; anthera 6-locellata : 
panicula ? simillima. — In Africa austral! : v. s. in herb. Lindl. 
et $ (Cooper, 904). 
A species near S. hernandifolia, diflering in its broader, not 
acuminated leaves upon longer petioles, in their being tomen- 
tose, not pubescent, and a difi’erent modification of the inflores- 
cence. The axils are 1^-2^ inches apart; the leaves in the ^ 
are more orbicular, 2^ inches long, 2^ inches broad, scarcely 
sinuate at base, the petiole being 2 inches long, inserted 6 lines 
within the basal margin : in the ? they are 3 inches long, 2| inches 
broad, on a petiole 2-2f inches long, inserted 7 lines within the 
margin. The peduncle is slender, 1| inch long; the primary 
umbels are capillary, 6 lines long, with one or two basal acumi- 
nate or setaceous bracts 2 lines long; the secondary umhels and 
pedicels 1-2 lines long : the $ peduncle is stouter. If inch long; 
the umbels 3 lines long, quite bractless ; the three or four um- 
bellules or pedicels 2 lines in flower, 5 lines in fruit, all pubes- 
cent ; the immature drupes are glabrous. 
23. Stephania laevigata, nob. ; — alte scandens, ramulis teretibus, 
striatis, glabris ; foliis majusculis, peltatis, suborbiculari- 
