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entire, narrowly elliptic-oblong or lanceolate; the base rounded and 

 minutely bi-glandular, slightly peltate; the apex acuminate, rarely 

 abruptly acute; both surfaces shining; main-nerves only about 4 pairs, 

 interarching broadly and far from the edge ; intermediate nerves 

 horizontal ; reticulations wide ; length 2'5 to 4*5 in. ; width '6 to 1*8 in. ; 

 petiole '4 to '8 in., compressed, not enlarged at the base. Peduncles 

 longer than the petioles but much shorter than the leaves, bearing a 

 filiform tendril and only one or two flowers. Flowers rather less than 

 •5 in. long, green. Female flower unknown. Male flower "4 to '5 in. long 

 Calyx campanulate, deeply divided into 5 linear-oblong, subacute, much 

 reflexed lobes. Petals shorter than the calyx and inserted into it below 

 the middle, membranous, reticulate, oblanceolate, their apices truncate 

 and broad. Glands short, oblong, truncate. Anthers about equal to the 

 petals, oblong, obtuse, cordate at the base ; the filaments united into 

 a wide tube. Fruit elliptic-oblong, tapered to each end, from 1'6 to 

 23 in. long, and 75 in. in diam., reddish when dry, smooth. Seeds mnch 

 compressed, sub-orbicular, with a few shallow pits in the centre, and 

 a row of short depressed radiating grooves round the edge, the aril 

 very thin. Modecca nicobarica, Kurz in Trimen's Journ. Bot. for 1875, 

 p. 327 ; Mast, in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 603. 



Andaman and Nicobar Islands ; not uncommon. Malacca ; Maingay 

 (Kew Distrib.) 670. Perak; Wray 651, 2781; King's Collector 2id9 ; 

 Scortechini 633 ; Bidley 10280. Penang; Curtis 1521. 



A species distinguished by its entire oblong leaves minutely peltate at the base, 

 by its long narrow reflexed calyx-lobes, and by its rotund seeds with shallow pits 

 in the centre and radiating grooves at the edges. 



3. Adenia CARDiOPHYLLA, Engl, in Jahrb. XIV, 376. Ratlier stout, 

 glabrous. Stems almost terete. Leaves membranous, remote, broadly 

 ovate, rotund-ovate, sometimes almost sub-reniforrn, the base deeply 

 cordate, the auricles rounded ; the apex with a short triangular point ; 

 both surfaces smooth ; the lower with numerous distinct reticulations ; 

 main-nerves about 9, radiating from the base; the secondary nerves 

 sub-horizontal, numerous ; length 5 to 9 in. ; breadth 3*5 to 7*5 in. ; petiole 

 2 to 4"5 in. long, not thickened at the base but with 2 sessile glands at 

 the apex. Peduncles 4 to 6 in. long, longer than the petioles, with several 

 widely-spreading cymose branches and usually one tendril. Male flower 

 narrowly ovoid, '2 in. long. Calyx leathery, spotted inside, tlie mouth 

 with blunt short teeth. Petals thin, broadly oblong-lanceolate, sub- 

 acute, spotted, their apices level with those of the teeth of the calyx, 

 their bases inserted about the middle of the calyx-tube. Glands short, 

 oblong-cuneiform. Anthers linear-ovate, acute, the filaments united into 

 a tube inserted into the fundus of the calyx. Female flower twice as 



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