Tap. 7244. 
GYNURA sarMeENTOsA. 
Native of the Malayan Peninsula and Islands. 
Nat. Ord. Composira.—Tribe SENECIONIDER. 
Genus Gynvura, Cass.; (Benth. et Hook. F. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 445.) 
GyNnuRa sarmentosa; fere glaberrima, caule tenni ramoso estriato laxe volubili 
scandente unacum panicule ramis involucroque parpureis, foliis 
petiolatis v. supremis sessilibus ovatis elliptico-ovatis lanceolatisve 
integerrimis remote denticulatis v. sinuato-dentatis, capitulis laxe pani- 
culatis ramis pedicellisque gracillimis, involucro anguste cylindraceo 
glabro bracteis externis ad 8 squalibus circumdato, bracteolis paucis 
linearibus, antheris basi rotundatis, styli ramis‘elongatis recurvis apicibus 
subulatis hispidis, acheniis glaberrimis multi-costatis. 
G. sarmentosa DC. Prodr. vol. vi. p. 298; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. iii. 
p. 335. 
G. Finlaysoniana, DC. 1. c. 299; Deless. Ic. Select. vol. iv. t. 55. 
Cacauta cylindriflora, reclinata et Finlaysoniana, Wall. Cat. n. 3150, 3151, 
3162. 
Soncuvs volubilis, Rumph Herb. Amb. vol. v. t. 103, f. 2. 
? ©. reclinata, Rowd. Fl. Ind. iii. 412. 
A very elegant climber, with richly coloured stem 
branches and involucres, but, from its lax habit of growth, 
not likely to become a horticultural favourite, except in 
tropical gardens where space is at its disposal. It is a 
common plant in the Malayan Peninsula and Islands, 
extending to the Moluccas and Philippines, and is quite 
the most graceful member of the rather coarse genus to 
which it belongs, and of which G. bicolor figured at 
Tab. 5123 is a better representative. Altogether about 
twenty species of the genus are known, all tropical Asiatic 
and African, with one Australian. 
G. sarmentosa was received at Kew from the Botanical 
Gardens of Singapore in 1891, under the name of G. 
aurantiaca, DC. (Cacalia aurantiaca, Blume), a Javan species 
JULY Ist, 1892. 
