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length 1-75-2 in., breadth •8-2-25 in., petiole •45-*65 in. Flowers monoe- 

 cious, all solitary, axillary and bracteate, the male peduncle 1'5 in. long, 

 the female only -25 in. Calyx-tube in both sexes elongate, densely 

 covered with long brown hairs ; the teeth 5, lanceolate ; corolla white, 

 about 1-35 in. in diam., its lobes obovate, entire, pubescent, veined. 

 Fruit about "75 in. in diam., globular, smooth, orange-red. Kurz in 

 Flora for 1871, p. 295; Clarke in Hook. fil. Flor. Br. Ind. II, 612. 

 Cucumis integrl f alius, Roxb. Flor. Ind. Ill, 724 ; Wall. Cat. 6730. 

 Trichosanthes officinalis, Wall. Cat. 6694. T. integrifolia, Kurz in Journ. 

 As. Soc. Beng.' XLVI, Pt. II, 99 ; Cogn. in DC. Mon. Phan. Ill, 386. 

 Perak ; Wray 2167 : Ridley 3107. 



Kurz named tliis Gymnopefalium integrijolium in the Journal of the Asiatic 

 Society of Bengal which was issued in March 1871. His publication of it in Flora 

 dates only from October of the same year. 



2. Gymnopetalum Cochinchinensis, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 

 XLVI, Pt. II, 57. Stems slender, angled, slightly scabrid-hairy. Leaves 

 reniform to triangular in outline, 5-angled or 3-5-lobed half way 

 down ; the lobes triangular, acute, the edges crenate-dentate and 

 thickened, the base deeply and widely cordate, both surfaces more or 

 less scabrid, length 2 to 4 in., breadth 2 to 3-5 in. ; petiole scabrid- 

 pubescent, 1-1*5 in. long ; tendrils simple or bifid. Male peduncle 

 longer than the leaves, the flowers racemose, or sometimes solitary ; 

 bracts large, incised-serrate, -5-* 75 in. long ; calyx-tube sub-cylindric, 

 villous, the mouth closed by deflexed hairs, the teeth erecto-patent ; 

 petals ovate-oblong, '5 in. long, entire or sub-crenate. Peduncle of 

 female flower shorter than the leaf-petiole, sparsely puberulous ; friiit 

 about 2 in. long, and '75 in. in diam., somewhat scabrid, 10-ribbed, 

 orange-red, the beak long ; seeds about '25 in. long. Kuiz in Flora 

 for 1871, p. 295 ; Clarke in Hook. fil. Flor. Br. Ind. II, 611 ; Cogn. 

 in DC. Mon. Phan. Ill, 391. Bryonia cochinchinensis, Lour. Flor. 

 Cochinch. 595 ; DC. Prodr. Ill, 305. Momordica tuhiflora, Boxb. 

 Flor. Ind. Ill, 711, (not of Wallich). Tripodanthera cochinchinensis 

 Boem. Synops. II, 48. Scotanthns tuhifiorus, Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 

 4, XVI. 172, t. 3. Triclwsanthes cucumerina, Wall. Cat. 6690 E. 

 T. ? Fatoa, Ham. in Wall. Cat. 6695. Bryonia grandis, Wall. Cat. 6700 

 K. L. Trichosanthes costata, Bl. Bijdr. 933 ; Ser. in DC. Prodr. Ill, 314. 



Pahang ; Ridley 2446. Kedah ; Curtis 2592. Perak ; King's Col- 

 lector 10563. DiSTRiB. British India, Malayan Archipelago, China. 



3. Gymnopetalum qdinquelobum, Miq. in Flor. Ind. Bat. I, Pt. I, 

 681. A slender annual; stem striate, with short pubescence or 

 glabrous. Leaves orbicular in general outline, deeply 5-lobed ; the lobes 

 sinuately 2- or 3-lobulate, or oblong and subentire ; both surfaces 

 sparsely covered with thick whitish hairs with balbous bases, length 



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