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HAB. Suibi, Pachina, Shintiku, Taihokn, : Byokosha, Tamsui, Takow. 

 DISTHIB. Throughout India and Malaya to North Australia. 



14. Melothria LINN. 



K'\i to the. Formosan Species. 



( \ ) Leaves triangular-cordate obtusely dentate, slightly lobed. .M.formosana. 

 Leaves more or less cordate entire or somewhat 3-lobed. . . JJ7. odomfct. 



Melothria formosana HAYATA Materials for a Flora of Formosa, p. 120. 

 Glabrous, scandent, striate, tendrils simple, papilliferons at the apex. Leaves 

 alternate, petiolate, sagittately cordate, or triangularly cordate, 24- cm. long- 

 as broad, sagittately cordate at the base, acute at the apex, obtuse at 

 the extremity, margin irregularly dentate, teeth obtusely mucronate or lobu- 

 late, very scabrous and punctate above, hispid on the nerves beneath, 5- 

 nerved, herbaceo-membranaceous, somewhat thick at the margin, petioles scabrous 

 1 cm. long. Racemes 2-3-flowered, axillary, pedicels 3 cm. long. Flowers 

 dioecious? fl. : 11 mm. long, calyx campanulate 3mm. in diameter, shortly 

 5-toothed, teeth 1 mm. long. Corolla 5 -parted, segments ovate, obtuse, 3mm. 

 long, 2.} mm. broad, patent, yellowish. Ovary oblong, 4 mm. long 3 mm. in 

 diameter, rostrate at the apex, beak 1.1 mm. long, style 3 mm. long, inserted 

 on a annular disc, stigma 3, capitate, 2-lobed. Male flowers not yet known. 

 Berry globose, 1 cm. in diameter, many-seeded, stipes very slender thread- 

 like, 2-3 cm. long. Seeds ovate, complanate albescent 4 mm. long, glabrous. 



HAB. Banchuryo, Rokkirisha. 



Melothria odorata HOOK. f. et THOMS. ; MATNUM. <'t HAYATA Enum. PI. 

 Formos. p. 1<>4. 



HAB. Bankiusiiig. 



DISTTUB. India, Malay, the Philippines. 



15, G-ynostemma BLUME. 



Gynostemma pedatum BLUME; HAYATA Fl. Mont. Formos. p. KM). 

 HAB. Arisan. 



