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Pate 2645, 
ACTINOSTEMMA BIGLANDULOSUM, Hemsl. 9. 
CUCURBITACE. 
i Yagmmooed ed seats in Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 2622 Pi sienna ad 
scriptio hic emen cta) ; siete Sabie lobis 2 basilaribus 
conspicue 2- mre en facile distinguitu 
petioli gracillimi, 14~3 longi. Cirrhi capillares, simplices vel 
furcati, folia equantes vel longiores. lores masculi 6-8 lin. diametro, 
in paniculas laxas axillares quam folia longiores dispositi. Caly t 
quorum 4 fi filame is crassiuse $ per paria alte coherentia, quintum 
iberum ; antherz biloculares, loculis discretis, connectivo incrassato 
supra loculos in caudam te elongato s feminei 7-9 lin. dia- 
metro, nunc axillares, solitarii, breviter pedunculati, nunc pauci aggre- 
gati, cymosi, pedunculis longioribus. Calycis et corolla segmenta simi- 
oH Iineari-lanceolata. a nip ogee os loculis 
axis vel columna centralis cum calyptra oh ie ; semina compressa, 
tuberculato-lobulata, apice alata, cum ala circiter 10 lin. longa. 
CuINA : in woods near Mengtze, Yunnan, Hancock, 346; A. Henry, 
9390, 
A second figure of this plant, which has been cultivated both at Kew 
and Edinburgh, is given to elucidate the peculiar structure of the fruit, 
imperfectly described under plate 2622. The Edinburgh plant pro- 
e 
is carried away with the operculum in dehiscence.__W. Borrine 
Hemstey, 
Fig. 1, bud ofa — flower ; =! same pel ated 3, gc with shrivelled stigma ; 
4, stigma in mature : 5, cross section of an ovary; 6, longitudinal section of the 
same; 7, section of irae fruit; re section of Beted ae 9,aseed. All enlarged. 
SERIES Ty. VOL, VII. PART II. 
