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Mitrosicyos lobatus, Maxim, in Prim. Fl. Amur. 112, t. vii 



i^maaterion japonicum, Mia. Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. ii, 80. Sicyoa oiyacanthus 



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I^^<^^ea 4 by 2^ in., acute, scarcely lobed in tte Bengal specimens, palmately lobed 

 Maximowicz' ; petiole often 2 in. Panicles 3-6 in. Fruit | by | in., not at all 

 gonous, upper part muricated as well as the lower. Seeds J by f in. ' 



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;^..^ climbing terb; tendrils simple. Xea2Je« pedate ; leaflets 3-6, ovate-lanceoiate, 

 serrate^ membranous, Tlowers small, dioBcious, in axillary diffuse panicles, 

 greemsn. Male: calyx snort, with 5 small lobes; corolla rotate, 5-partite, 

 ^th lanceolate segments ; stamens 5, filaments connate below ; anthers 2- 

 ceUed ; cells long, straight. Female : calyx and corolla as in the male ; ovary 

 spherical, 3-2-celled ; styles 3-2, united at the base, at the apex 2-fid ; ovules 

 in each cell 2, pendulous. Fi^it globose, size of a pea, umbonate, indehiscent, 

 *;i^eeded. Seed not winged, verrucose, submuricate. 



:.^5; G*. pedataf Blume Bijd, 23; leaflets glabrous beneath or slightly 

 pubescent, panicles more or less pubescent. Miq. Fl. Ind, Bat. i. pt, ii. 687. 

 W. cissoides, pedata arid Wightiana, Bth. ^ Hk. / Gen. PL i. 839. Enkylia 

 ^i?yna and trigyna, Griff. PI. Cantor. 27. Zanonia Wightiana, Am. in Hook, 

 ^rn. Bot. ii. 272. Z. cissoidea and laxa, Wall. PL As. Bar. ii. 28, 29; 

 Wm. Cat. 3726, 3727. Z. pedata, Miq. FL Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 683. Pestalozzia 

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Nipal; Wallich. SnuuM, Assam, Kjiasia, 

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Glabrous or pubescent. Leaflets 5 or 3 by 1^2 in., lanceolate or obovate-lanwo- 

 . ., tiolules ^-^ in. ; petiole 1-1^ in., often pubescent with a line of crisped hairs. 

 panicles usually 3-6 in., sometimes 15 in. by nearly a foot broad, leafless.. Styles 

 o and 2 on the same plant. Fruit i in. diam., glabrous or puberulous. ' >Secrf ^ in., 

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Climbing herbs ; tendrils simple. Leaves long-petioled, simple, ovate or ob- 

 long. Flowet^s dioecious, in large compound pendulous racemes, males pedicelled, 

 J^niales subsessile. Male: sepals 3, oblong or orbicular, concave; corolla 

 ^tate, &-partite, segments subacute ; stamens 5, free, inserted on a fleshy disc, 

 *^laments verv abort.. Anthprs l-rftllftd. transverselv oblonir. Female: calyx 



wnents very short ; anthers 1-celled, transversely ol 



^lid corolla as in the male ; ovary subclavate, at first 3-celled, styles 3, spread- 

 *% 2-fid at the apex ; oi-ules in each cell 2 or many, pendulous, attached in 2 

 ^^es to a fleshy parietal placenta. Vapsute large, elongate-cylindric, clavate, 

 ^^alved at the truncate apex. Seeds large, oblong, pendulous, compressed, 

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%e base glabrous or nearly so, fruit 4 in., seeds few pendulous from the sum- 



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