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which Mr. C. B. Clarke, (who elaborated the family of Cucurbitacese for Hooker's 

 Flora of British India, and who kindly compared my Malayan material in the Kew 

 Herbarium) considers as probably new. But, ns these want either flowers or fruit, 

 I am obliged to leave them undescribed. The chief amongst these are Perak, VVray 

 2228 and 3416 ; and Andamans, King's Collector 2200. 



8. Gtnostemma, Blume. 



Climbing herbs, tendrils simple. Leaves pedate ; leaflets 3-5, ovate- 

 lanceolate, serrate, membranous. Flowers small, dioecious, in axillary 

 diffuse panicles, greenish. Male floiver ; calyx short, with 5 small lobes ; 

 corolla rotate, 5-partite, with lanceolate segments; stamens 5, filaments 

 connate below ; anthers 2-celled, the cells straight and elongate. 

 Female flower, calyx and corolla as in the male ; ovary rotund, 2-3-celled ; 

 styles 2 or 3, united below, bifid at the apex ; ovules 2 in each cell, 

 pendulous. Fruit globose, umbonate, indehiscent, as large as a pea, 

 l-3-seeded. Seeds wingless, verrucose, sub-muricate. Species 4 ; all 

 Indo-Malayan. 



Gynostemma pedata, Blume Bijdr. 23. Slender, J 0-20 feet long; 

 young branches and leaves puberulous or glabrous, rarely pubescent. 

 Leaves membranous, trifoliolate or pedate, the petioles 1-1 '5 in. long; 

 leaflets 3-7, ovate-oblong, lanceolate or oblanceolate, unequal, the 

 middle the longest, their apices acute or sub-acute, the bases narrowed 

 and sometimes oblique, the edges crenulate or crenate-dentate ; length 

 • 75-2*5 in., breadth "4-1 in., the petiolules 'l-'2 iu. Panicles longer 

 than the leaves, 3-6 in. or even a foot long, slender, sparsely branched, 

 more or less coarsely pubescent. Calyx- segments triangular, acute ; 

 segments of corolla 1-nerved, ciliate-dentate. Fruit '15 in. in diam. 

 Seeds trigonous. Eoem. Syn., fasc. II, p. 110 ; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I, 

 Pt. I, 683 ; Clarke in Hook"! fil. Flor. Br. Ind. II, 633 ; Cogn. in DC. 

 Mon. Phan. Ill, 913. G. laxa, Cogn. Mon. Phan. Ill, 914; Zanonia 

 laxa, Wall. Cat. 3727 ; PI. As. Bar. II, 29 ; Arn. in Hook. Journ. 

 Bot. 111,272 (in note). Zanonia cissoides, Wall. Cat. 3726 ; PI. As. Bar. 

 II, 28. L. Wightiana, Arn. Pugill. 38 ; Nov. Act. Acad. Nat. Cur. 18, Pt. 

 I, 356; Roem. Syn., fasc. II, 117. Alsomitra laxa, Roem. Syn., fasc. II, 

 118. Pestolozzia laxa, Thw. Enum. PI. Zeyl. 124. P. pedata, Zoll. et 

 Moritz. Syst. Verz. p. 31. Alsomitra cissoides, Roem. Syn., fasc. II, 118. 

 Enlcylia trigyna, Griff. PI. Cantor. 27 ; Miq. Prol. Flor. Jap., pp. 15 and 

 142. F. digyna, Griff. PI. Cantor. 27. Zanonia pedata, Miq. Flor. 

 Ind. Bat. I, Pt. I, 683. Gynostemma cissoides, Franch. et Sav. Enum. 

 PI. Jap. I, 176. Vitis atroviridis, Wall. Cat. 6040 ; Vitis trichophora, 

 Wall. Cat. 9032. 



Perak ; King's Collector 2306. Distrib. Malayan Archipelago, 

 British India and Tonkin. 



