ACTINOSTEMMA : CUCURBITACEÆ (AUCT. COGNIAUX). 921 
læ lanceolatæ vel subulatæ, 2-4 mill. longæ. Calycis segmenta lanceo- 
lata, longissime capillari-subulata, trinervia, glabra, 8-9 mill. longa, 
ad basim 1 */, mill. lata. Petala trinervia, inferne dilatata, ad basim 
valde constricta, superne longe capillari-subulata, glabra, 8-9 mill. 
longa, 2*/, mill. lata; nervi ramosi. Staminum filamenta crassa, apice 
non dilatata, */,-"/, mill. longa; antheræ ovatæ, */, mill. long; con- 
nectivum dorso non papillosum. Flores feminei terni. Pedunculus 
capillaris, glaber, 1-2 */, cent. longus. Fructus acutiusculus, operculo 
quartam partem altitudinis fructus tantum occupante. 
In montibus a Pekino S. O. versus sitis, in vico Fan-Ssian-Ssjanj 
(herb. Fischer, nunc hort. Petrop.). 
2. Flores masculi racemosi (primum fasciculati et solitarii occurunt). 
Pedicelli feminei ad medium articulati. 
3. A. lobatum (Maxim.! in Franch. et Sav. Enum. pl. Jap. 1, 
P. 175); foliis hastato-3-5-lobatis, lobo medio longissimo, rarius inte- 
gris et anguste lenceolato-triangularibus; calyeis segmentis lineari- 
lanceolatis, I-nerviis, apice subulatis; petalis ovato-lanceolatis, apice 
longe capillari-subulatis, 1-nerviis; staminum filamentis sparse pilo- 
sis. — Mitrosicyos lobatus Maxim.! Prim. Fl. Amur. p. 112, tab. 7. 
— Karivia? longicirrha Miq.! Prol. fl. Jap. p. 12. — Actinostemma 
tenerum Naud.! in Ann. sc. nat. ser. 5, v. 5, p. 39, non Griff. (exel. 
loc. Himalayæ). 
Caulis gracilis, procumbens, parce ramosus, angulato-sulcatus, 
Sparse pilosus demum glaber et levibus, circiter 1 metr. longus. 
Petiolus gracilis, striatus, breviter villosus, 2-4 cent. longus. Folia 
utrinque tenuiter punctata, ad nervos breviter villosa demum glabra, 
Supra læte viridia, subtus pallidiora, margine brevissime ciliata, 6-12 
cent. longa, 3-8 cent. lata, plerumque trilobata; lobi margine leviter 
undulati vel erenulati, terminalis anguste triangularis, longe acutus 
rarissime obtusus, 5-8 cent. longus, ad basim 1 ‘/,-3 cent. latus ; late- 
rales 2-4-plo breviores, oblongo-triangulares, acuti vel obtusi, inter- 
dum subnulli; sinus basilaris subrectangularis, 1-2 cent. profundus, 
/-1*/, cent. latus. Cirrhi graciles, elongati, sulcati, brevissime vil- 
losi, apice bifidi. Flores monoiei, masculi racemosi. Pedunculus com- 
munis gracilis, sulcatus, primum leviter villosus, demum glaber, 2-6 
“ent. longus; pedicelli capillares, solitarii vel fasciculati, breviter 
villosi, 2-5 mill. longi; bracteæ hastate vel subulatæ, 2-5 mill. longe. 
Calycis segmenta sparse pilosa, margine minutissime remoteque den- 
