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Herba scandens, omnino glabra. Ramuli cinereo-albi, sulcati, ad 

 1 mm. diametro. Folia 11-19 cm. longa, 14-24 cm. lata, pinnatim 

 5-secta, segmentis lanceolatis vel anguste lanceolatis apice acutis 

 breviter mucronatis 9-15 cm. longis 1-2 cm. latis, membranacea, 

 margine integro, nervis lateralibus utrinque 2, nervulis plerumque 

 patulis intra marginem distincte arcuatis, omnibus utrinque 

 conspicuis, pagina superiore basi glandis 2 instructa, subtus glandulis 

 4 sinus adversus medio intra marginem et rhachin ornata ; petioli 

 2*3-4*5 cm. longi. Pedunculi axillares, 6-10 cm. longi, in cirrhos 

 producti ; pedicelli graciles, ad 1 cm. longi. tf : Calycis tubus plus 

 minus ve 3 mm. longus, lobi 5, lanceolati, apice acutiusculi, 1*1 cm. 

 longi, 2 mm. lati, 7-9-nervati ; loborum basi iisque oppositae 

 glandae oblongae, majusculae, carnosae, apice recurvae. Petala 5, 

 oblanceolata, 8*5 mm. longa, 2 mm. lata, margine fimbriato, 

 3-nervata. Stamina libera, petalis isomera ; filamenta basi leviter 

 dilatata, 2*5 mm. longa ; antlierae 3 mm. longae, cauda 3*5 mm. 

 longa. Ovarii rudimentum 1 mm. altum. Q : Calycis tubus, 

 lobi, et glandae maris sed paullo minores. Petala maris, nisi tantum 

 2*5 mm. longa, 0*5 mm. lata. Staminodia parva. Ovarium 

 gynophorio 2 mm. longo suflultum, 4 mm. altum, 1*5 mm. dia- 

 metro ; stylus circiter 1 mm. longus, ramis 3 bifidis. Fructus 

 gynophorio 7 mm. longo suffultus, 5 cm. longus, exocarpio tenui 

 rubro-brunneo. — Craib, Kew Bull. 1911, p. 56. 



Chiengmai, Doi Sootep, 720 m., Kerr, 751. 



Distr. Burma (v.s. in Hb. Lace). 



Carica Papaya, Linn. — F.B.I., ii. p. 599, in nota ; For. Fl. Burma, 

 i. p. 533. 



Bangkok, Zimmermann, 134. 

 Cultivated throughout India. 



CUCURBITACEAE. 



Trichosanthes cucumerina, Linn. — F.B.I., ii. p. 609. 

 Chiengmai, a common weed, 300 m., Kerr, 714. 

 Distr. India, Malaya, N. Australia. 



Trichosanthes multiloba, Miq.-— F.B.I., ii. p. 607. 

 Chiengmai, Doi Sootep, 720 m., Kerr, 653. 

 Distr. Sikkim, Khasia, Burma. 



Trichosanthes palmata, Roxb. — F.B.I., ii. p. 606 ; Coll. et Hemsl., 

 Journ. Linn. Soc, xxviii. p. 61. 

 Chiengmai, 300 m., Kerr, 1266. 

 Distr. India, Burma, Malaya, Australia. 



Luffa aegyptiaca, Mill— F.B.I., ii. p. 614 ; Williams, Bull. Herb. 

 Boiss., v. (1905) p. 956. 



Chiengmai, 330 m., Kerr, 1661. 

 Distr. Tropics. 



Gymnopetalum cochinchinense, Knrz — F.B.I., ii. p. 611. 

 Chiengmai, 300 m., Kerr, 1337—" a garden weed." 

 Distr. Sikkim, Bengal, Assam, China, Malaya. 



