518 MONOECIA MONANDRIA, Gnetum. 
ing a single filament with a two-lobed anther. FEMALEs 
above the males in the same scale of the ament. Perianth 
proper or corol urceolate, Germ superior, one-celled, ovula 
solitary, superior. Style short. Stigma trifid. Drupe one- 
seeded. Embryo inverse, with an ample perisperm. 
1. G. gnemon. Willd. iv. 591. 
Leaves opposite, elliptic; aments axillary, compound, 
Gnemon domestica. Rumph. Amb. i, t. 71. 
A native of Sumatra, and the Molucca Islands, Strong cords 
are made of the fibres of its bark, at Sumatra, and its leaves 
are used as spinage. In both male and female, the corol is 
very distinct, and of a pitcher shape, with a small perforation 
at top, they are separately surrounded witha number of slen- 
der, short filaments, which may be called perianths. 
~ 2, G, seandens, R.- 
: ‘Shrubby, scandent. Leaves opposite, oblong. 
Ula. Rheed. Mal. vii. p. 41. t. 22. 
~~ Gnemon funicularis. Rumph. Amb. v. p. 12. t. 7, nih 
~ Nanu-wit?, the vernacular name in the Silhet district. A 
stout scandent shrub, a native of the hilly parts of Chitta- 
gong, and the eastern parts of Bengal, as well of Malabar and 
the Moluccas. Flowering time in the former, March and 
April, fruit edible, ripening in September and October. 
~ Young shoots round, smooth, jointed at the insertion of the 
leaves and there swelled. Leaves opposite, short-petioled, 
oblong, firm, glossy, entire, rather obtuse, about six inches 
long, by three broad. Petioles rather short, enlarged at the 
base on the inside, “Stipules none. Peduncles axillary and — 
terminal, generally one or two opposite pairs of peduncled 
cylindric aments and a terminal one; all are round and 
smooth. Scales of the aments short, cyathiform, forming @ 
complete ring ‘around the rachis at every eighth part of an 
inch, embracing a double whorl of male and a single whorl 
of female florets, over them ; alsiorscd intermixed with much 
