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tails 6, his brevioribus, lineari-oblongis, apice fere ad medium 
in lacinias acutas subdenticulatas fissis, imo auriculatis, sta- 
ininibus vix dimidio longitudinis unguibus affiKis. — In China 
et ins. Sandwichensibus : v. s. in herb. Hook., Mas. Brit., el 
Lindley, Chusan ; Korea, Cbusan (Welford, 924) ; Woabu 
(Barclay, 1271). 
This species is easily distinsiuished from the two preceding 
by the more acuminated shape of its oval leaves, its longer 
petioles, and its shorter axillary ^ panicles ; the bitid apical 
segments of the petals are eroso-denticulated. The leaves are 
2^ inches long, 1^ inch broad, on a petiole 9 lines long. The 
(^panicles are 6-8 lines long, their brauchlets 1-2 lines long. 
4. Nephroica caudata, nob. ; — ramulis tenuibus, pilis retrorsis 
dense vestitis ; folds ellipticis, imo acutis et interdum breviter 
constrictis, apicem versus subito angustatis et breviter acu- 
minatis, acumine angusto et obtusulo, e basi 5-nerviis, uervis 
subrectis, ultra medium productis, et cum alteris e costa 
euatis et parallelis anastomosantibus, submembranaceis, supra 
viridibus, sparse pilosis, subtus paulo pallidioribus, subpubes- 
ceutibus, et in nervis vix prominulis valde pilosis ; petiolo 
tenui, pubescente, limbo 3-plo breviore : paniculis J'geminis, 
supra-axillaribus, petiolum sequantibus, breviter ramosisj 
ramis alternis, circiter 6, sub-3-tloris; rachi, ramulis, pedicei- 
lis bracteolisque pubescentibus ; sepalis 9, suborbiculatis, 
glaberrimis, quorum 3 exteriora minora, margine ciliata ; 
petalis liueari-oblongis, imo breviter auriculatis, apice in la- 
ciuias 2 acutas ad tertiam partem fissis.— In Japonia : v. s. in 
herb. Hook., Nagasaki (Oldham, 29). 
A species allied to N. ovalifolia, from which it differs in its 
larger, more acuminated leaves, cuneately narrowed at base, and 
in its longer petiole. The leaves are 3|-4 inches long, 2- 
2^ inches broad, on a petiole 12-13 lines long. The axillary 
panicle is 1 inch long, the rachis slender and bare for half its 
length, its branches 2 lines long, about 3-flowered. 
5. Nephroica Thunbergii, nob.; — Cocculus Thunbergii, DC. Syst. 
i. 524, Prodr. i. 98; — Menispermum orbiculatum, Thunb. 
[non Linn.) FI. Jap. 194; Lam. Diet. iv. 97 ; — ramulis teneri- 
bus, striatis, pubescentibus; folds obovatis, imo sinu levi 
cordatis, ultra medium gradatim angustioribus, apice obtusis 
et calloso-mucronatis, e basi 5-nerviis, nervis extus valde 
ramosis, supra subnitidis, sparse puberulis, subtus pallidiori- 
bus, glaucis, subpuberulis, in nervis pilosulis ; petiolo tenui, 
pubescente, limbo 5-plo breviore : panicula $ axillari, pubes- 
cente, folium sequante ; ramis brevibus, alternis, bracteolatis ; 
