53 MaterioJs for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Note. — The name used for this genus in Hooker's Flora of British India is 

 Modecca, Lamk. -which dates from 1797. Following Engler, I have here used 

 Forskal's name Adenia, which dates from 1775. 



Leaves always deeply 3-lobed ... ... ... 1 A. trilohata. 



Leaves entire : — 



Leaves minutely peltate at the base; lobes of calyx 



long, narrow and reflexed ... ... ... 2 A. nicoharica. 



Leaves cordate at the base : — 



Base broadly and deeply cordate, main -nerves 

 radiating from the base : flowering peduncles 

 up to 6 in, long ... ... ... S A. cardiophylla. 



Base slightly cordate: main-nerves pinnate : 4i A. popvlifolia var. 

 flowering peduncles less than 2 in. long ... pentamera. 



Leaves not cordate at the base or only occasionally very 

 slightly so : main-nerves usually 2 sometimes 3 pairs : — 

 Nerves and reticulations of leaves distinct ... 5 A. acuminata. 



Nerves and reticulations of leaves invisible, the lower 



surface of the leaves whitish ... ... 6 A. singaporeana. 



1. Adenta TRiLOBATA, Engl. Jalirb., XIV, 375. Many feet in length, 

 glabrous, the bark on the old slioots cinereous, on the young smooth 

 green. Leaves remote, membranous, broadly cordate at the base, deeply 

 3-lobed ; the lobes lanceolate, tbe two outer often auriculate at the 

 base, the sifiuses wide, rounded, and each bearing a small gland; main- 

 nerves 5, palmate ; the lateral nerves and the reticulations few ; length 

 6 to 9 in. ; width 4*5 to 6*5 in. ; petioles from half as long to nearly as long 

 as the leaf-blades, terete, smooth, not enlarged at the base, the apex 

 with two conical recurved glands. Peduncles slender, smooth, terete, 

 axillary, longer than the petioles, umbellulately cymose ; flowers few, 

 •3 to "5 in. long, the females somewhat longer than the males. Calyx 

 tubular, the lobes short, oblong, subacute. Petals narrowly oblong, 

 inserted near the. base of the calyx-tube. Filaments united into a tube 

 springing from the fundus of the calyx ; anthers linear-oblong, abruptly 

 acute, the connective produced into a minute point. Glands narrowly 

 oblong, blunt, incurved. Staminodes in female flower united into a 

 membranous cup. Rudimentary ovary in male flower trifid. Fruit 

 oblong, scarlet, from 2 to 25 in. long when ripe, and 1"5 in. in diam. 

 Seeds compressed, sub-obcordate or sub-rotund, scrobiculate, the arillus 

 thin, clear. Modecca trilohata, Roxb. Hort. Beng., 49 ; Roxb. Corom. 

 Plant. Ill, t. 297 ; Fl. Ind., Ill, 133 ; Wall. Cat., J 234 ; Kurz, in Journ. 

 As. Soc, Beng., 1877, II, 95; Masters in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind., II, 602. 



Andaman Islands ; common. — Distrib. Northern parts of British 

 India and Burma. 



2. Adenia nicobarica. King. Slender and slightly branched, 

 glabrous Stems minutely sulcate, thin, wiry. Leaves membranous, 



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