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and 3 in. in diam. Seeds flattened, about "l in. tliick, ovate, with 6 

 unequal deep narrow marginal lobes (those at the ends being the 

 longest), the seed proper or nucleus papillose, 1 in. long and -75 in. 

 broad, surrounded on all sides by a thin membranous wing nearly ] in. 

 wide. 



Peeak ; King's Collector 7230. 



This fine species is known only from a single gathering of six specimens, none 

 of which bears a flower. My friend Mr. C. B. Clarke, F.R.S., who was so kind 

 as to compare for me at Kew the whole of my Malayan Cucurbits, notes on this as 

 follows : " This is either a new Zanonia near Z. indica, Linn., or a new Alsomitra 

 near A. Capricornica, F. Miill. — I think a Zanonia, whether the sepals turn out to be 

 5 or not. The 2-fid cirrhi may do for either genus. The spinose-margined seeds are 

 not liivo those of Zanonia ; but the ovoid, or sub-globose fruit is like nothing out 

 of section Macrozanonia, Cogu. I call it Zanonia, n. spec." 



10. Alsomitra, Bth. & Hk. f. 



Large climbers ; tendrils simple or 2-ficl. Leaves with 3 oblong 

 entire leaflets. Flowers small, dioecious, white, in compound panicles 

 Avith filiform branches. Male ; calyx rotate, 5-partite, segments oblong, 

 acute ; corolla rotate, 5-partite, segments obtuse ; stamens 5, filaments 

 short, near together at the base ; anthers small, oblong, straight, 1- 

 celled. Female; calyx and corolla as in the male; ovary elongate- 

 clavate, 1-celled ; styles 3-4, conical, with semi-lunate stigmas ; ovules 

 very many, pendulous ; placentas 3, thick, vertical, parietal. Capsule 

 large, elongate-clavate, truncate and 3-valved at the apex. Seeds very 

 many, compressed, vertical, in six rows, much corrugated, incised or 

 horned on the margin with a terminal membranous wing longer than 

 the seed. Distrib. Species 9; British India, Malaya, North Aus- 

 tralia, S. America. 



Alsomitra clavigera, Roem, Syn. fasc. II, p. 118. A slender 

 glabrous climber. Leaflets fleshy, the middle the largest, oblong or 

 oblong-lanceolate, the apex obtuse, the base narrowed,- the edges entire, 

 subsessile, eglandular, length 1*5-3 in., breadth '65-1 in. Panicles 

 slender, twice as long as the leaves, longer in fruit. Capsule smooth, 

 1'25-1"5 in. long and '4 in. broad. Seeds dark, cinereous, shortly 

 muricate. Cogniaux in DC. Mon. Phan. Ill, 927 ; Hook. fil. in Bot. 

 Mag. t. 6017 ; Clarke in Hook. fil. Plor. Br. Ind. II, 634. Zanonia 

 sarcophylla, Wall. Cat. 3724; PL As. Rar. II, 28, t. 133. 



Kedah ; Curtis 2504. 



Ordered LVI. ARALIACE^. 



Trees or shrubs, very rarely herbs, often scandent, sometimes 

 prickly. Leaves alternate, the uppermost rarely sub-opposite, long- 

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