49 50. CUCURDITACE;E. 
of the Bureau of Scienee, P. L, when we were together looking over the For- 
mosan collections in the Herbarium at 'llokyo, told me that he thought the 
plant to be identieal with 6G'ynostemme. infegrifoliola Coav. To what species 
the present plant should be definitely referred was a very difficult question 
for me, until I saw the types of Hookzms and CoGNIAUX'S species and 
HrNRY's speeimen, all preserved in the Kew Herbarium. | À comparison 
of my plant with the specimens above mentioned showed me clearly that it 
is exactly the same as the specimen in HzwNnv's collection, (which lacks 
flowers), but quite different from Hookxzm's plant. I also found that 
my flowering specimen accords very well with Gynostemme integrifoliola. CoGx., 
the specimen of whieh lacks fruit. In the original description of CoaNrAUx, 
there is mentioned *fruetus fuseus elaber vel leviter puberulus, 7-8 miill., 
erassus." "The deseription must, I infer, have drawn up from a premature 
fruit, as there is given no account about seeds. "The fruits of this species are, 
as is seen in my specimen, as long as 4em.and have numerous winged 
seeds. "The Ganostemina of CoaNrAUX, as far as my collections with flowers 
and fruits are concerned, does mot aeeord with the general characters of 
Gapiostemima, but quite agrees with those of Z[somifra. My plant and also 
CocwraUx's plant, therefore, should be referred to the latter genus. — Accord- 
ingly, the new combination, 1. ?nfegrifoliola Hayr is much to be desired 
for the present plant. It comes very near to 44. clavigera Hoox. f. but dif- 
fers from it in having much smaller pods which are only half the size of those 
of the latter plant, and also in having much smaller seeds with thin wings, 
whieh seeds are bluntly and obseurely indented on the margin. "The seeds 
of HookrEm's plant are much larger, and acutely and grossly indented.* 
* Owing to a negligence when reading proofs, three lines in my * Materinls" p. 122, line 
9-7 from bottom, are misprinted. 'Phey should be corrected as '*also in having much smaller 
seeds with thin wings, which seeds nre bluntly and obseurely indented on the margin. The 
seeds of Hooxxm's plant are ncutely, elenrly nnd grossly indented." 
