Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peniristtla, 33 



1-0-2-25 in., breadtli 1*75-3 in.; petiole 'VS-l in., sparsely pubescent. 

 Male flowers usually solitary, rarely in racemes slightly longer than 

 the leaves, shortly pilose ; the bracts oblong, serrate, "S in. long. Calyx- 

 teeth erect, entire or dentate ; petals oblong, acute, puberulous outside. 

 Peduncle of female flower 'o-l in. long. Fruit brilliant scarlet when 

 ripe, oblong-fusiform, acutely ribbed, shortly pubescent, 15-2 in. 

 long ; seeds blackish, rugulose, obscurely raarginate, narrowed to the 

 base, -2 in. long and about '1 in. broad. Clarke in Hook. fil. Flor. Brit. 

 Ind. II, 611 ; Cogn. in UC. Mon. Phan. Ill, 392. Scotanthus PorteanuSy 

 Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. V, Vol. 5, 25. Gymnopetalum. hetero- 

 phyilum, Kurz in Trim. Journ. Bot. for 1875, p. 326. 

 Andaman and Nicobar Islands ; Kurz, 



4. Ldfpa, Cav. 



Climbers, large or small, pubescent or nearly glabrous ; tendrils 

 2-5-fid. Leaves cordate, usually 5-angular or 5-lobed ; petiole without 

 glands at its apex, ^'lowers yellow or white, monoecious, males and 

 females often from the same axil ; females solitary or panicled, males 

 on long or short racemes or clustered. Male ; calyx-tube turbinate, 

 lobes 5, triangular or lanceolate ; petals 5, obovate ; stamens 3, rarely 

 5, filaments 3, free or connate ; anthers exserted, free, one 1-celled, the 

 others 2-celled ; cells sigmoid, often on the margin of the broad con- 

 nective. Female ; calyx-tube shortly produced above the ovary ; lobes 

 and corolla as in the male ; ovary oblong, style cylindric, stigma 3-lobed; 

 ovules very many, horizontal. Fruit large or small, oblong (not 

 spherical), smooth or angular or spinous, ultimately fibrous, not succu- 

 lent, 3-celled, usually circumscissile near the apex. Seeds many, oblong, 

 compressed. Distbib, Species Qy in the wai-mer regions of the Old 

 World and one in America. 



LoPFA ^GYPTiACA^ Miller Gard. Diet. ed. VIII, ex Hook. fil. in 

 Oliv. Flor. Trop. Afr. II, 530. Stem stout, many yards in length; the 

 young branches glabrous, angled and very deeply sulcate ; tendrils 

 2-3-fid. Leaves large, reniform or reniform-orbicular in general outline, 

 palmately 5-lobed ; the lobes acute, lobulate and denticulate ; both sur- 

 faces scabrous or scaberulous, punctate, glabrous except the pubescent 

 nerves on the lower surface ; length 25-6 in., breadth 3-9 in., petiole 2-2*5 

 in., pubescent, eglandular. Male peduncle 6 in. long ; the flowers 4-12, 

 crowded near the summit, 1*5-2 in. in diam., their pedicels short, each 

 with a small ovate viscid bract, or ebracteate ; petals 5, yellow witk 

 green veins ; stamens 5. Female flower solitary on a peduncle 1-3 iu« 

 long, usually from the same axjl aa the male inflorescence ; fruit 5-1 ii 

 ia. loc^ %uU-cjliiiui2:ic, witk uumaioua bold ridges ; seed^ uaualiy black, . 



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