as.j Lxv. cirouEBiTACEiE. (C. B. Clarke.) 633 



I. A. tenerum, Oriff. PL Cantor. 25; Mud. in Arm. Sc. Nat. ser. 

 6, V. 39. Mitrosipyos lobatus, Maxim, in Prim. ' Fl. Amw. 112, t. -vii. 

 Pomasterion japonicum, Miq. Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. ii. 80. Sicyos oxyacanthus! 

 Wall. Cat. 6683. Momordica Paina, Wall. Cat. 6742. Oucurbitacew, WaUl 

 Cut. 9060. 



Plain of East Bengal, frequent. Assam. Silhet.— Disteib. Amuriand, Japan. 



Leaves i by 2J ini., acute, scarcely lobed in the Bengal specimens, palmately lobed 

 in Maximo-vricz'; petiole often 2 in. Panicles 3-6- in. Fruit | by i in., not at all 

 trigonous, upper part muricated as well as the lower. Seeds J by f in. 



27. GVNOSTEninXA, Slume. 



A climbing herb; tendrils simple. Xe«we«pedate; leaflets 3-5, ovate-lanceolate, 

 serrate, membranous. Flowers small, dioecious, in axillary diffuse panicles; 

 greenish. Male : calyx short, with 5 small lobes ;. corolla rotate, 5-partite, 

 with lanceolate segments ; stamens 5, filaments connate below ; anthers 2- 

 ceUed ; cells long, straight. Femaie : calyx and corolla as in the male ; ovary 

 spherical, 3-2-celled ; styles 3-2, united at the base, at the apex 2-fid ; ovules 

 in each cell 2, pendtdoos. JFhtit globose, size of a pea, umbonate, indehiscent, 

 1-3-seeded. Seed not winged, verrucose, submuricate. 



1. Gr. pedata, Blvme Bijd. 23 ; leaflets glabrous beneath or slightly 

 pubescent, panicles more or less pubescent. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. ii. 687. 

 G. cissoides, pedata and Wightiana, Bth. Sf Hk. f. Gen. PI. i. 839. Enkylia 

 digyna and tngyna, OrW. PI. Cantor. 27. Zanonia Wightiana) Am. in Sook. 

 Jawm. Bot. ii. 272. Z. cissoidea and laxa, Wall. PI. As. Bar. ii. 28, 29 ; 

 WaU. Cat. 3726, 3727. Z. pedata, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 683. Pestaldzzia 

 pedata, Zoll. et Mar. Sygt. Verz. 31. P. laxa, Thwaites Enum. 124. 



. Kdmaon ; Strachey ^ Wiaterbottom. Nipal ; Wallieh. Sikkim, Assam, Khasia, 

 common up to 5000 ft. alt. Cetlon ; Thwaites. — Distbie. Malaya, Japan. 



Glabrous or pubescent. Leaflets 5 or 3 by 1^2 in., lanceolate or obovate-lanceo- 

 late ; petiolules ^-^ in. ; petiole 1-1^ in., often pubescent with a line of crisped hairs. 

 Panicles usually 3-6 in., sometimes 15 in. by nearly a foot broad, leafless. Styles 

 3 and 2 on the same plant. Fruit ^ in. diam., glabrous or pubemlous. Seed •^ in., 

 ellipsoid, subtrapezoid. 



28. ZAirOKXA, Idnn. ^ 



Climbing herbs ; tendrils simple. Leaves long-petioled, simple, ovate or ob- 

 long. Flowers dioecious, in large compound pendulous racemes, males pediceUed, 

 females subsessile. Male : sepals 3, oblong or orbicular, concave ; corolla 

 rotate, 6-partite, segments subacute ; stamens 5, free, inserted on a fleshy disc, 

 filaments very short; anthers l-ceUed, transversely oblong. Femaxe: calyx 

 and corolla as in the male ; ovary subclavate, at fi);st 3-ceUed, styles 3, spread- 

 mg, 2-fid at the apex ; ovules in each cell 2 or many, pendulous, attached in 2 

 series to a fleshy parietal placenta. Capsule large, elongate-cylindric, clavate, 

 S-valved at the truncate apex. Seeds large, oblong, pendulous, compressed, 

 surrounded by a large membranous wing, — Disteib. Species 2-3, extending 

 &om India to Borneo. 



1. Z. indica, Lma. ; DC. Prodr. iii. 298 ; leaves ovate rounded or cordate 

 at the base glabrous or nearly so, fruit 4 in., seeds few pendulous from the sum- 

 mit of the fruit (Balzell) wing 2-3 in. lamk. Ill, t. 816; Blume Bijd. 937; 



