61. cucurbitacejE. 319 



Formosa. : north-west (Swinhoe !),Tamaui (Oldham, 128, 134 !). 

 Herb. Kew. 



India and Malaya to the Philippine Islands and New Guinea. 



1. Mukia scabrella, Am. in Hook. Journ. Bot. iii. p. 276 ; 

 Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. ii. p. 623 ; Wight, Illustr. 

 Ind. Bot. t. 105 bis. 



Melothria maderaspatana, Cogn. in DC. Monogr. iii. p. 623. 



Bryonia scabrella, Linn.f. Supp. p. 424 ; Wight, Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t. 501. 



Cucumis maderaspatanns, Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 1, p. 1012. 



Formosa : without locality (Swinhoe 1), Tamsui (Oldham, 129 !). 

 Herb. Kew. 



Tropical Asia, Africa, and Australia. 



1. Melothria cucumerina, Naud, in Ann. Sc. Nat. 5 me aerie, vi. 

 p. 10 ; Cogn. in DC. Monogr. iii. p. 590. 



Eastern China : without locality (ex Naudin). 



2. Melothria indica, Lour. Fl. Cochinch. p. 35 ; DC. Prodr. iii. 

 p. 313 ; Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat. 4 me serie, xvi. p. 1G9, t. 2 ; Clarke 

 in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. ii. p. 626 ; Cogn. in DC. Monogr. iii. 

 p. 598. 



JEchmandra indica, Am. in Hook. Journ. Bot. iii. p. 2/4. 



Chekiang : Ningpo mountains (Faberl); Kiangst : Kiukinng 

 (Shearer !) ; Kwajsgtung: Whampoa (Hance, 12460!), Pakhoi 

 (Playfair !). Mus. Bnt. ; Herb. Kew. 



India and Malaya to the Philippine Islands. 



3. Melothria odorata, Hook.f. et Thorns, ex Clarke in Hook. f. 

 Fl Brit. Ind, ii. p. 626. 



Melothria leucocarpa, Cogn. in DC. Monogr. iii. p. 601. 



iEchmandra odorata, Hook.f. et Thorns, ex Benth. Fl. Hongk. p. 124. 



Rhynchocarpa odorata, Hance in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 104. 



Kiangsu : Shanghai (Maingay?); Hongkong (Harland Sf 

 Hance, 779 ! 1149 !). Mus. Brit, ; Herb. Kew. 



India and Malaya to the Philippine Islands. 



Cogniaux, loc cit., although he cites the ' Flora Hongkong- ■ 

 ensis,' does not record this species as Chinese ; and Hance's 779 

 he refers to M. indica. Perhaps all the Chinese specimens 

 belong to the latter species. 



[Melothria pendula, Linn., a native of eastern North America 



