(248) TENTAMEN FLORJî: LUTCIIUENSIS. ülö 



Bryonia tenuis, Klotzscli, in " I'eters, Reise Älossamb. 

 Bot. p. lôO." 



Bryonia mriegata, Mill. *' Gard. Diet. ed. 8, ii. ') "; 

 Ser. in DC. Prodr. Ill, p. 308 ; '' M. Rœm. Syn. Tepon. 

 p. 39." 



Goccinia ^mlmata, Eœm. "Syn. Papon, p. 93." 

 CuGumis verrucosus. Herb. Rottl. ex Clarke, in Hook. f. 

 Fl. Brit. Ind. II, p. (323. 



Insula Utchinâ [Tashiro ! April. 1887, frf.). 

 Archipelago Ykma : insula Yunakuni ad rnonteni Ura- 

 bu-daki [S. TanaJcal n. 397, 13 Junio 1891, frf.). 



DiSïRiB. Formosa, Malaya, India, Ceylon, tropical 

 Africa, Mauritius and Australia. 



Leaves scabrous and white-punctuate above, suiooth below, 

 broad, 5-8 cm. long, (3-9 cm. wide, palmately 5-fid, lobes ovate 

 or ovate-lanceolate, slightly sinuate-toothed, teeth mucronate ; 

 petiole 4-6 cm. long, or often longer than the lamina, glabrous 

 or sometimes muricate. Tendrils 2-branched, one branch being 

 often smaller. "Flowers yellow" (Tashiro in msc). Fruit 

 baccate, globular, smooth, " bright red with white vertical stripes " 

 (Tashiro in msc. and ^'. Tanak a in sehe d.), nh out 2 cm. diameter. 

 Seeds obovoid, with a thickened corrugate margin, the faces 

 conical with protuberances, 7 mm. long, 4 mm. wide, 4^ mm. 

 thick. 



Mukia, Am. 



M. SCabrella, Am. in " Hook. Journ. Bot. Ill (1841) p. 

 270 "; Walp. Eepert. II, p. 199 ; " M. Rœm. Syn. Pepon. p. 

 47"; "Wight, lUustr. Ind. Bot. t. lOü bis"; " Naud. in Ann. 



