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long, f-lj inch broad, on a petiole 2 lines long ; in the cultivated 
specimen from Bourbon they attain a length of 2 inches and a 
breadth’ of inch, on a petiole 3 lines long; in the specimen 
from China the leaves are a little broader and more oval. Presl 
states that in the typical plants from Luzon the leaves are 
scarcely 1 inch long, and ovate ; and this occurs in one of the 
specimens above quoted. The $ axillary peduncle is only 1- 
2 lines long, bearing a few 1-flowered pedicels 1 line long; the 
flowers have nine sepals, six petals, and three ovaries. In the 
specimens I have seen the ^ panicle is 4-5 lines long, the 
branches 3 lines, the pedicels 1 line long. 
The authors of the ‘Flora Indica’ (p. 190) consider this spe- 
cies (which they had not seen) to be identical with my Hypserpa 
nitida from Hongkong; but in this they are certainly mistaken. 
12. Nephroica pycnantha, nob. ; — ramulis scandentibus, teneris, 
retrorsum pilosis; foliis deltoideo-oblongis, irao truncatis, 
sursum gradatim acutatis, apice obtusulo et mucronato, e basi 
5-nerviis, reticulatis, in nervis utrinque pilosis; petiolo brevi, 
pilosulo, limbo 6-plo breviore : panicula ^ e fasciculo pilorum 
supra-axillari orta, cinereo pubescente ; rachi petiolo sequi- 
longa, apice ramos 3-4 gequilongos umbellatos divaricates 
gerente ; ramis creberrime bracteolatis et spicatis, plurifloris ; 
bracteolis imbricatis ; pedicellis brevibus, e bracteolis enatis ; 
floribus pro mole majusculis ; sepalis 6, ovato-ellipticis, sub- 
carnosis, glabris, extus bracteis 2-3 puberulis donatis; pe- 
talis 6, paulo brevioribus, lineari-oblongis, apice minus pro- 
funde acute 2-dentatis, lobis basalibus parvis, involutis; sta- 
minibus 6 ; ovariis 6 rudimentariis supra gynsecium insitis. — 
In China ; v. s. in herb. Lindley., Macao (Vachel, 242) . 
A species much allied to the preceding, differing in its very 
triangularly oblong leaves truncated at base, and by the remark- 
able character of its inflorescence. The leaves are 17-20 lines 
long, 10-13 lines bi’oad, on a petiole 3 lines long; the peduncle 
is 3 lines long, its branches of the same length, which are 
crowded with minute imbricated bracts, from each of which is a 
pedicel ^ line long, supporting a flower which, in the bud, is 
oval and | line long. 
^ 13. Nephroica Ferrandiana, nob. ; — Ferrandia oleifolia, Gaud. 
Freyc. Voy. 477, tab. 101 ; — Cocculus Ferrandianus, Presl, 
Rep. Bot. i. 154; Walp. Rep. i. 94; — Cissampelos? acumi- 
nata, DC. Svst. i. 538, Prodr. i. 102; — ramulis tenuibus, 
scandentibus, retrorsum strigoso-sericeis, demum glabris; 
foliis oblongo-lanceolatis, utrinque attenuatis, imo obtusis, 
summum versus gradatim acutioribus et subacuminatis, mu- 
