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Har. Suibi, Pachina, Shintiku, Taihoku, : Byokosha, T'amsui, Takow. 
Disrnrp.  "Phroughout India and Malaya to North Australia. 
14. Melothria Laisw. 
Key to the. F'ormosan Species. 
(1) Leaves triangular-eordate obtusely dentate, slightly lobed. .M. /ormosena. 
Leaves more or less eordate entire or somewhat 3-lobed. .. M. odorata. 
Melothria formosana Ha3vara Materials for a. Flora of. Formosa, p. 120. 
Glabrous, seandent, striate, tendrils simple, papilliferous at the apex. Leaves 
alternate, petiolate, sagittately cordate, or triangularly cordate, 21 em. long 
as broad, sagittately cordate at the base, acute at the apex, obtuse at 
the extremity, margin irregularly dentate, teeth obtusely mueronate or lobu- 
late, very seabrous and punetate above, hispid on the nerves beneath, 5- 
nerved, herbaceo-membranaceous, somewhat thick at the margin, petioles seabrous 
lem.long.  Racemes 2-3-flowered, axillary, pedicels 3 em.long. Flowers 
diccious? fl. 2: 1l mm.long, calyx campanulate 3 mm. in diameter, shortly 
5-toothed, teeth 1 mm.long. Corolla 5-parted, segments ovate, obtuse, 3 mm. 
long, 21mm. broad, patent, yellowish. | Ovary oblong, 4mm.long 3 mm.in 
diameter, rostrate at the apex, beak 1i mm.long, style 3 mm.long, inserted 
on a annular dise, stigma 23, capitate, 2-lobed. Mile flowers not yet known. 
Berry globose, 1 em. in diameter, many-seeded, stipes very slender thread- 
like, 2-3 em.long. Seeds ovate, complanate albescent 4 mm. long, glabrous. 
Har. Banehuryo, Rokkirisha. 
Melothria odorata Hook. f. et ''nows. ; Marsuw, et Hayara Enum., PI, 
T'ormos. p. 164. 
Har. Bankinsing. 
Disrarb, India, Malay, the Philippines. 
15. Gynostemamma Drvwr. 
Gynostemma pedatum Drvuxr; Hayara Fl, Mont, Formos, p. 100. 
Har, Arisan, 
