40 56. 



India, Malay archipelago, central and eastern China, Japan 

 and tho Loo-choo islands. 



16, Actinosteinma GRIFF. 

 Key to the Formo^ni Species. 



Racemes shorter, leaves 5-lobed ............................. A. libitum. 



liacemes very much longer, leaves not lolled or, if any, very slightly at the 

 base ............................................... A. /"rr///o.s-/////. 



Actinostemma lobatum MAXIM.; MATSIM. et HAY ATA Enum. PI. 

 Formos. p. 105. 



HAP.. Taihoku, Bankinsing. 



DISTRIB. From Mandshiiria to Japan and China. 



Actinostemma racemosum MAXIM. ; MATSUM. ot HAY ATA Ennm. PI. 

 Formos. p. 165. 



HAB. Taihoku. 



DISTRIB. Japan and China. 



17. Alsomitra HCEM. 



Alsomitra integrifoliola HAY ATA Mater. Fl. Formos. p. 121 ; and Ic. PI. 

 Formos. Fasc. I. PI. XXXVHI and XXXIX. A twining herb, branches very 

 slender, distinctly furrowed, more or less complanate, nearly glabrous. Leaves 

 alternate, 7 cm. distant, pedately 5-foliolate, common petioles 3 cm. long, 

 ternately branched, terminal one bearing a terminal leaflet, lateral ones 

 furcately branched, each branches bearing lateral leaflets, terminal leaflets 

 a little larger than the lateral ones, oblong, or elongately oblong, 8 cm. 

 long 3 cm. broad, acuminate at the apex, shortly aristate on the summit, 

 shortly attenuate at the base, 2-glanduliferous at the base, glands black or- 

 bicular, margin nearly entire or slightly undulate slightly curved, crasso- 

 membranaceous, nerves and veins prominent on both surfaces, lateral leaflets 

 smaller, basal ones smallest, unequal at the base, more or less obliquely 

 falcate towards the apex ; tendrils opposite the leaves, more tlian 10 cm. long, 

 2-fid at the apex. Flowers dkecious in long panicles axillary or terminal, 



