GYMNOPETALUM. CUCURBITACEJE (AUCT. COGNIAUX.) 389 
ad medium 5-lobatis, lobis leviter crenulato-denticulatis ; calycis tubo 
glabro vel sparse piloso; pistillodiis 3; petalis ovato-oblongis, apice 
rotundatis. — Bryonia tubiflora W. et Arn.! Prodr. Fl. Ind. 1, p. 347. 
— Gymnopetalum Zeylanicum (ceylonicum) Arn.! in Hook. Journ. of 
Bot., 3, p. 278; Rom. Syn., fasc. 2, p. 99; Thw. Enum. pl. Zeyl., 
p. 127. — G. Wightii Clarke! in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind., 2, p. 611 (pro 
parte). 
Caulis filiformis, suleatus, glaber vel brevissime sparseque él tos 
Petiolus filiformis, sulcatus, sparse villoso-hirsutus, 2-3 cent. longus. 
Folia supra leete viridia, subtus paulo pallidiora, 4-6 cent. longa, 
3*/,-5*/, cent. lata; lobis triangularibus vel ovato-oblongis, apice 
subobtusis et mucronulatis, intermedio longiore; sinus inter lobos 
acuti, basilaris anguste subrectangularis, 1 cent. profundus. Cirrhi 
capillares, elongati, sulcati, subglabri. Pedunculus communis mascu- 
lus filiformis, subglaber, 3-5 cent. longus, apice 5-12-florus ; pedicelli 
capillares, erecto-patuli, flexuosi, brevissime villoso-hirsuti, 5-14 mill. 
longi; bracteolee 'capillares, subappressæ, 1 /,-2 mill. longæ. Calycis 
tubus inferne attenuatus, superne leviter ventricosus, apice constrie- 
tus, 9-11 mill. longus, 2 mill. crassus ; dentes capillares, subglabri, 
uninervii, patuli vel reflexi, 1 ‘/,-2 mill. longi, ad basim */, mill. lati. 
Petala patula, glabra, trinervia, 5 mill. longa, 3-4 mill. lata. Stami- 
num filamenta 1 mill. longa ; capitulum antherarum 2 '/,-3 mill. lon- 
gum, 1 mill. crassum. Pistillodia 1 mill. longa. Pedunculus fructiferus 
gracilis, 2 cent. longus. Fructus ovoideus, apice attenuato-subrostra- 
tus, basi rotundatus, pilis parvis brevibus conspersus, 32 mill. longus, 
18 mill. crassus. Semina oblonga, leviter scrobiculata, ad basim subito 
compressa, 7 1/,-8 mill. longa, apice 2 ‘/,-3 et ad basim.3 '/, mill. lata, 
2*/, mill. erassa. 
In insula Ceylon (Reynaud in herb. Berol.); ad Trincomalec (Wight 
n. 1118 in herb. Brux., DC., Francav., Berol., hort. Petrop., Edin., 
Kew.); in Canara prope urb Mangalor (Pl. Ind. or. edid. Hohen- 
acker, n. 662 in herb. Boiss., Francav., Lenorm., Kew.). 
2. G. Wightii (Arn.! in Hook. Journ. of Bot. 3, p. 278); foliis 
rigidiusculis, ovatis, supra primum villoso-hirsutis demum scaberri- 
mis, subtus primum molliter villosis demum subhirsutis, integris vel 
angulato-lobatis, margine minute remoteque subulato-denticulatis : 
. calycis tubo dense villoso-hirsuto ; pistillodio unico; petalis oblongis. 
apice acutis. — Rem. Syn., fase. 2, p. 100; Thw. Enum. pl. Zeyl., 
P. 127; Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind., 2, p. 611 (pro parte, — 
