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fleeted basal lobes ; the stamens are as long as the petals : the 
$ raceme is somewhat longer ; the putamen is about 2 lines in 
diameter, with a large lunate aperture on each side of the 
condyle. 
9. Nephroica triloba, nob, ; — Menispermura trilobum, Thunb. FI. 
Jap. 194 ; Lam. Diet. iv. 95 •, Willd. Sp. ii. 825 j — Cocculus 
trilobus, DC. Syst. i. 522, Prodr. i. 98; — ramulis scandentibus, 
cinerascentibus, retrorsum hispidulis; folds profunde tri- 
lobatis, imo latis et subcordatis, lobis basalibus subdivaricatis, 
subfalcatis, acutis vel obtusis, lobo intermedio deltoideo vel 
lanceolato-triangulari, acuto et mucronato, e basi 5-nerviis, 
utrinque sparse villosulis, supra lucidis, subtus glaucis ; pe- 
tiole brevi, tereti, imo reflexo, subsericeo-villoso, limbo 5-6- 
plo breviore : panicula (J axillari, petioli longitudine vel bre- 
viore, pilosulo ; pedunculo apice pedicellos 3-5 crebre alternos 
gerente ; floribus hinc corymbulosis ; sepalis 6, bracteis 2-3 
villosis sufFultis, interioribus majoribus, glabris, membrana- 
ceis, orbiculatis, concavis; petalis 6, lineari-oblongis, fere ad 
medium acutissime fissis, laciniis denticulatis, imo lobis par- 
vulis inflexis. — In Japonia et China: v. s. in herb. Hook. ^ , 
Nagasaki (Oldham, 28 in parte) ; hort. Kew. cult. ; ins. For- 
mosa (Oldham, 8) ; in herb. Mus. Brit., prov. Kianang 
(Staunton). 
A species very different from N. hastata, the leaves being 
more deeply cordate, the basal lobes more auricular, more salient, 
and sometimes acute at their extremity, leaving a deep sinus 
between each and the terminal lobe, which is in the form of a 
long acute triangle. The leaves are l|-2 inches long, the basal 
sinus being 1-2 lines deep ; they are 1^-2 inches broad across 
the auricular. lobes, which, when acute, are 1 inch long; when 
the lobes are rounded, the terminal part is broader, being |-1 
inch broad at its base ; when they are acute, the middle portion 
is only |-| inch broad, thus forming an acute triangle 1-1^ inch 
long; the petiole is 4 lines long. The $ panicle (or rather 
corymbulose raceme) scarcely exceeds 4 lines in length, the 
peduncle being furnished at its apex with from three to five 
closely alternating pedicels ^-1 line long; the flowers are mi- 
nute, scarcely more than ^ line in diameter in bud ; the margins 
of the sepals are more or less denticulated ; the petals are some- 
what shorter, with their acute segments denticulated, the sta- 
mens being half their length. 
10. Nephroica cuneifolia, nob.; — ramulis valde teuuibus, volubili- 
bus,subpuberulis; foliis oblongis,imo longe cuueatis, apice trun- 
cato-rotundis, profunde emarginatis et breviter mucronulatis, 
