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Herba soandens, 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. <$ : 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 ; antherae 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 suffulturn, 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. 



CUCURBIT ACEAE. 



Trichosanthes cucumerina, Linn. F.BJ., 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, Kurz F.B.I., ii. p. 611. 

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

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



