Actmostemma.'] LXV. CUCURBITACE^. (C. B. Clarke.) 633 



1. A. tenerum, Griff. PI. Cantor. 25; Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 

 5, v. 39. Mitrosicyos lobatus, Maxim, in Prim. Fl. Amur. 112, t. vii. 

 Pomasterion japonicuni, Miq. Ann. Mus. Luyd. Bat. ii. 80. Sicyoa oxyacanthus, 



Wall. Cat. 6683. Momordica Paina, Wall. Cat. 6742. Cucurbitacese, Watt. 



Cat. 9060. 



Plain of EAST BENGAL, frequent. ASSAM. SILHET. DISTRIB. Amurland, Japan. 



Leaves 4 by 2 in., acute, scarcely lobed in the Bengal specimens, palmately lobed 

 in Maximowicz' ; petiole often 2 in. Panicles 3-6 in. Fruit f by ^ in., not at all 

 trigonous, upper part muricated as well as the lower. Seeds % by f in. 



27. GYNOSTElttBIA, Blume. 



A climbing herb ; tendrils simple. Leaves pedate ; leaflets 3-5, ovate-lanceolate, 

 serrate, membranous. Flowers small, dioecious, in axillary diffuse panicles, 

 greenish.. MALE: calyx snort, with 5 small lobes; corolla rotate, 5-partite, 

 with lanceolate segments ; stamens 5, filaments connate below ; anthers 2- 

 celled ; cells long, straight. FEMALE : calyx and corolla as in the male ; ovary 

 spherical, 3-2-celled ; styles 3-2, united at the base, at the apex 2-fid ; ovules 

 in each cell 2, pendulous. Fruit globose; size of a* pea, umbonate, indehiscent, 

 1-3-seeded. Seed not winged, verrucose, submuricate. 



1. Or. pedata, Blume Bijd. 23 ; leaflets glabrous beneath, or slightly 



Sibescent, panicles more or less pubescent. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. ii. 687. 

 . cissoides, pedata and Wightiana, Bth. $ Hk. f. Gen. PL i. 839. Enkylia 

 digyna and trigyna, Griff. PL Cantor. 27. Zanonia Wightiana, Am. in Hook. 

 Journ. Bot. ii. 272. Z. cissoidea and laxa, Wall. PL As. Rar. ii. 28, 29; 

 Wall. Cat. 3726, 3727. Z. pedata, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 683. Pestalozzia 

 pedata, Zoll. et Mor. Syst. Verz. 31. P. laxa, Thwaites Enum. 124. 



KTJMAON ; Strachey Sf Winterbottom. NIPAL ; Wallich. SIJUUM, ASSAM, KHASIA, 

 common up to 5000 ft. alt. CEYLON ; Thwaites. DISTBIB. Malaya, Japan. 



Glabrous or pubescent. Leaflets 5 or 3 by 1^-2 in., lanceolate or obovate-lanceo- 

 late ; petiolules in. ; petiole 1-H in., often pubescent with a line of crisped hairs. 

 Panicles usually 3-6 in., sometimes" 15 in. Ly nearly a foot broad, leafless. Styles 

 3 and 2 on the same plant. Fruit % in. diam., glabrous or puberulous. Seed in., 

 ellipsoid, subtrapezoid. 



28. ZANONIA, Linn. 



Climbing herbs ; tendrils simple. Leaves long-petioled, simple, ovate or ob- 

 long. Flowers dioecious, in large compound pendulous racemes, males pedicelled, 

 females subsessile. MALE : sepals 3, oblong or orbicular, concave ; corolla 

 rotate, 5-partite, segments subacute ; stamens 5, free, inserted on a fleshy disc, 

 filaments very short; anthers 1-ceUed, transversely oblong. FEMALE: calyx 

 and corolla as in the male ; ovary subclavate, at first 3-celled, styles 3, spread- 

 ing, 2-fid at the apex ; ovules in each cell 2 or many, pendulous, attached in 2 

 series to a fleshy parietal placenta. Capsule large, elongate-cylindric, clavate, 

 3-valved at the truncate apex. Seeds large, oblong, pendulous, compressed, 

 surrounded by a large membranous wing. DISTKIB. Species 2-3, extending- 

 from India to Borneo. 



1. Z. indica, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. iii. 298 ; leaves ovate rounded or cordate 

 at the base glabrous or nearly so, fruit 4 in., seeds few pendulous from the sum- 

 mit of the fruit (Dalzell) wing 2-3 in. Lamk. III. t. 816; Blume Bijd. 937; 



