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the largest, ovate-oblong, shortly acuminate or sub-acute ; the base 

 slightly narrowed, oblique, not cordate, the edges quite entire ; both 

 surfaces ghibrous, minutely reticulate when dry, the upper minutely 

 punctate ; length of leaflets 3-45 in., breadth 1 •5-2-5 in. ; petiole 1-1*5 

 in. long, stout; petiolules '15 in. ; tendrils short, bifid. Male 'pedunch 

 shorter than or equal to the leaves, stout, deeply sulcate, adpressed- 

 pubescent, floriferous for half its length ; bracts deltoid, pectinate, 

 tawny glandular- tomentose. Calyx-tuhe narrowly infundibuliform, 

 minutely pubescent ; the teeth lanceolate, acuminate, entire, erecto- 

 pntent. Female floioer unknown. Fruit ovate, smooth, 8 in. long 

 and 3 or 4 in. in diam. with a leathery rind, bright red with 10 yellow 

 stripes when ripe; seeds obliquely oblong, compressed, smooth, '6 in. 

 long and '4 in. broad. 



Perak ; Wray 2460; S cort echini ; King's Collector iOSH. SrxGA- 

 rORE; i^i't^Ze?/ 2051, 4592, 6783; HiUlett 24^7. Distrib. Celebes, Beccari. 



3. Gymnopetalitm, Arn. 



Twining herbs, tendrils usually simple or 2-fid. Leaves petioled,' 

 5-angular, nearly entire or deeply lobed. Floivers white for yellow ?), 

 somewhat large; occasionally monoecious; male peduncles in fully 

 developed plants 2 from each axil, the earlier 1 -flowered, the later 

 longer with racemes, either often suppressed; bracts on the racemes 

 persistent, large, lanceolate, incised or small ; females 1-flowered, usually 

 in separate axils. Male calyx-tube long, contracted near the mouth 

 limb of 5 lanceolate segments ; petals 5, not fimbriate on the mai-gin ; 

 stamens 3; anthers included, connate, elongate, 1-2-celled, cells, 

 conduplicate ; rudiments of the ovary 1 or 3, small, linear. Female 

 calyx and corolla as in the male ; ovary oblong ; style long, stigmas 3, 

 short linear; ovules horizontal, many ; placentas 3, long, vertical. Fruit 

 ovate-oblong, acute at both ends. Seeds many or few, ellipsoid, com- 

 pressed, margined, nearly smooth. Distrib. Species 6 ; in India, China 

 and Malaya. 



Leaves not lobed ... ... ... ... 1. G. integnfolium. 



Leaves lobed : — 



Leaves 3-5-lobed half way down, reniform to trian- 

 gular in general outline ; lobes triangnlar acute, not 



lobulate ... ... ... ... 2. G. Cochinchinensis. 



Leaves deeply 5-lobed, the lobes lobnlate-sinuate, 



blunt, their general ontline orbicular ... ... 3. G. qumqueloculare. 



1. GrYMNOPETALLTM INTEGRIFOLIUM, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 



XL, 58. Creeping, only a few feet long ; stem scabrid, tendrils simple 



or bifid. Leares reniform, obtuse; the margin undulate or denticulate 



not lobed ; upper surface very scabrid, the lower softly tomentose 



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