160 CHARAC'TEES OF TEIBES AKD GENERA. 



to 3 inckes long, linear pmnatifid, densely covered with 

 clavate viscid glands. Ceylon. 



G. rutasfolia, Hool. and Greu., lo. Fil, t. 90 (v v.) (G. 

 glandulosa, HocJe. and Grev., Ic. Fil., t. 91) ; G. Pozoi, Kze., 

 Hook. Ic. t. 935 ; G. immersa, Moore ; G. papaverifolia, 

 Kze. ; G. Sciiomburglikiana, Kze. ; G. ottonis, Klot. ; G. 

 filipendulfefolia, Desv. ; G. incisa, Mart, and Lind. ; G. my- 

 riophylla, Stv.; G. flabellata, Hook.; G. ferruginea, Kze. 

 (vv.); G. Hookeri, /. 8m., Hook. Syn. Fil.; G. aureo- 

 nitens, Hook. Ic, t. 820 ; G. Matthewsii, Hook., Hook. Sy. 

 Fil., 5, t. 290. 



8. Vernation sarmentose. Fronds indefinite, climhing, hi- 

 tripinnate, rachis fiexuose, innnm refracted, 2^^'^^'-^^'^^ 

 small, cuneiform. Ampelogranvma, J. Sm. 



G. fiexuosa, Desv. (vv.) ((?. retrofracta. Hook, and, Grev., 

 Bot. Misc., 13, t. 112).' 



The above are the principal representatives of the genus, 

 with few exceptions they are natives of the West Indies and 

 Tropical America, extending to Chili ; one of them, G. 

 calomelanos, is found in Western Tropical Africa, and also 

 in Mauritius, but is believed to have been introduced. 

 G. leptophylla, a small annual, has still wider geographical 

 range, being found in Jersey, South of Europe, and regions 

 of the Mediterranean, Western African Islands, Tropical 

 America, South Africa, India (Neilgherries), and New 

 South Wales ; and G. Pozoi, a native of the South of 

 Europe, is represented in New South Wales and New 

 Zealand by G. rutmfolia and G. glandulosa. 



