518 MONOECiA MONANDRiA. Gnetum, 



iiig a single filament Avith a two-lobed anther. Females 

 above the males in the same scale of the ament. Perianth 

 proper or corol urccolate. Germ superior, one-celled, ovula 

 solitary, superior. Sttjle ^\ox\. Stigma ix'\^(\. Drupe one- 

 seeded. Embryo inverse, with an ample perisperm. 



1. G. gnemon. Willd. \v. 591. 



Leaves opposite, elliptic; aments axillary, compound. 



Gnemon domestica. Rumpli. Ainh, i. t. 71. 



A nativeof 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 with a number of slen- 

 der, short filaments, which may be called perianths. 



2. G. scandens. R. 



Shrubby, scandent. Leaves opposite, oblong. 



Ula. Rheed. Mai. vii. p. 41. t. 22. 



Gnemon fanicularis. Rumph. Anib. v. p. 12. t. 7, and 8. 



Nanu-witi, 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 a 

 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 ; the whole intermixed with much 



