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panieles 40 em. long 15 em. broad, pyramidal, very slender, loosely flowered, 
loosely branched, basal branehes 15 em.long, bracts at the base of 
the branches, pedately  3-foliolate, with additions of two small basal 
segments, lem.long including stalks. Fl. 1: patent, 6-7mm.in diameter, 
pediceels slender, 2mm.-5 mm.long. — Calyx flattened, 4 mm. in diameter, 
5-lohed, lobes elongately oblong broadest at the base, obtuse at the 
apex.  Petals 5 distinct, obovate; 9 mm.long, 21 mm. broad, round, shortly 
apieulate at the apex, cuneate at the base, hirsute towards the margin, 
horizontally patent. Stamens 5, distinct, clustered on the centre of. the. flowers, 
divarieate eaeh other, ineurved downwards at the apex, filuments 1 mm. long, 
anthers l-eelled, with a red round sland on the back.  Hudimental ovary 0. 
Fruiting panieles pendulous, 40 em.long, 20 em. wide, profusely fructiferous, 
pedieels 1-11 em.long.  Pods cylindrical, 5 em. long, 12 mm. in diameter in 
seetion, obtuse at the base, quite truneate at the apex, opening by a 
terminal round triangular mouth furnished — with three valves, each 
turning inside, walls light brown glabrous, rough or elevately punctate to- 
wards the base, or slightly muricate, with a line around the mouth; valves 
very broad, broadly triangular 1 em. broad at the bsse, 5mm.long. Seeds 
pentagonal in outline, stalked, flattened, 8 mm.long including stalks, 7 mm. 
broad, margin 2-lnmellate, blantly-toothed, teeth 5, 21 mm. broad 13 mm. long, 
stalks  3mm.long, 2-mm. broad; wings inserted between lamellas, very 
thin membranaeeous, semi-transparent, oblone-linear, 2 em.long, 5-6 mm. 
broad. | Embryo triangular-ovate, 5 mm.long, 23mm. broad, radicle very 
short 1 mm.long; cotyledons broadest at the base, truneate or emarginate at 
the apex. 
Alsomitra. clavigera Hxnv List Pl. Formos. p. 46; Marsuw. et. Havara 
Enum. Pl. Formos. p. 164, (non Hoox. f.). 
Gynostemimna. integrifoliola. CoaNrxUx. in DC. Monogr. Phanerog, TIT. p. 
916. 
'The present plant is mentioned in HzNnv's List of Plants from Formosa 
p. 46, as lsomitra. clavigera Hook. f. and is also referred to the same species 
by myself in * Enum. Pl. Formos. p. 164," as the description of Hooxznm's 
plant is, in greater part, in aecordance with my plant. Mr. F. D. MznnmL 
