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ramulis brevissimis, apice 3-floris; pedicellis brevissimis, gla- 
bris ; sepalis 9, 3-seriatis, glabris, fusco-membranaceis, exte- 
rioribus bracteiformibus, interioribus majoribus, suborbiculari- 
bus, concavis ; petalis 6, paulo brevioribus, oblongis, apice bre- 
viter bifissis, laciniis subdivaricatis, imo lobis parvis auricu- 
latis iuflexis, glabris, fuscis; ovariis 6, glabins; drupis pisi- 
formibus. — In Japonia: v. s. in herb. Hook., Azama (Oldham, 
30), Semada (Oldham, 231), Nagasaki (Oldham, 28 in parte). 
This species has long been known : it is a plant climbing 
upon shrubs, with somewhat slender branches and distant axils; 
its leaves are inches long, 2f-2^ inches broad, with a wide 
basal sinus 1^-2 lines deep, the petiole measuring 6-7 lines. 
1 have seen only the female plant, whose raceme-like axillary 
inflorescence is 2^-3| inches long, with alternate branches 
2 lines long and 4—5 lines apart, the ultimate pedicels bearing 
two alternate bracteoles in the middle ; the flowers are rather 
more than a line in diameter in bud ; the drupes are of a dark 
colour, with a bluish bloom, enclosing a putamen 2| lines in 
diameter. Sometimes the axillary inflorescence is much shorter 
than the usual length given above. 
6. Nephroica dilatata, nob.; — Cocculus Bantamensis ?, Bl. Bijd. 
26; Walp. Rep. i. 93; — ramulis teretibus, striatis, subpube- 
rulis; folds deltoideo-orbicularibus, imo sinu rotundo cor- 
datis, hinc sursum gradatim angustioribus, in medio paulo 
constrictis, apice valde obtusis, emarginatis et mucronatis, 
coriaceis, e basi 5-nerviis, utrinque glaberrimis, supra pallidis, 
subtus pallidioribus, nervis tenuibus prominulis; petiolo brevi, 
striato, subpuberulo : racemo $ axillari, petiolo longiore ; 
ramis paucis, alternis, flores paucos brevissime pedicellatos 
gerentibus ; drupis glabris, piso minoribus. — In China et Java: 
V. s. m herb. Hook., prov. Kianang (Staunton). 
This species appears to correspond with the Cocculus Banta- 
mensis, Bl. ; but, uncertain of this, I do not adopt that specific 
name. It differs from all the preceding in its comparatively 
broader, more deltoid leaves, cordate at base, glabrous below, 
and in having much stouter and shorter petioles. The leaves 
are 2^-3 inches long, 2^ inches broad, with a basal sinus 2 lines 
deep, on a petiole 6-9 lines long ; the fructiferous raceme is 
1 inch long, bearing about three branches, each with one to 
three pedicellated drupes 3 lines in diameter. 
7. Nephroica hastata, nob. ; — Menispermum hastatum, Lam. 
Diet. iv. 98; — Cocculus hastatus, DC. Syst. i. 522, Prodr. i. 
98; — Cocculus dianthera. Hook. Arn. Bot. Beechey Voy. 
p. 167 ; — ramulis teretibus, flexuosis, pilis brevibus, retrorsis. 
