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Hab. Suibi, Pachinfi, Shintiku, Taihoku, : Byokoslia, Tamsui, Takow. 

 DiSTEiB. Throughout India and Malaya to North Australia. 



14. Melothria Linn. 



Key to the Formosan Species. 



( 1 ) Leaves triangular-cordate obtusely dentate, slightly lobed. .M.fm-mmana. 

 Leaves more or less cordate entire or somewhat 3-lobed. . M. odorata. 



Melothria formosana Hayata Materials for a Flora of Formosa, p. 120. 

 Glabrous, scandent, striate, tendrils simple, papilliferous at the apex. Leaves 

 alternate, petiolate, sagitta.tely cordate, or triangularly cordate, 2^ cm. long 

 as broad, sagittately cordate at the base, acute at the apex, obtuse at 

 the extremity, margin irregularly dentate, teeth obtusely mucronate or lobn- 

 late, very scabrous and punctate above, liispid on the nerves beneath, 5- 

 nerved, herbaceo-membranaceous, somewhat thick at the margin, petioles scabrous 

 1 cm. long. Racemes 2-3-flowered, axillary, pedicels 3 cm. long. Flowers 

 dioecious ? fl. ^ : II mm. long, calyx campanulate 3 mm. in diameter, shortly 

 5-toothed, teeth 1 mm. long. Corolla 5-parted, segments ovate, obtuse, 3 mm. 

 long, 2|- mm. broad, patent, yellowish. Ovary oblong, 4 mm. long 3 mm. in 

 diameter, rostrate at the apex, beak 1-J^ mm. long, style 3 mm. long, inserted 

 on a annular disc, stigma 3, capitate, 2-lobed. Male flowers not yet known. 

 Berry globose, 1 cm. in diameter, many-seeded, stipes very slender thread- 

 like, 2-3 cm. long. Seeds ovate, complanate albescent 4 mm. long, glabrous. 



Hab. Banchuryo, Rokkirisha. 



Melothria odorata Hook. f. et Thoms. ; Matsum. et Hayata Enum. PI. 

 Formos. p. 164. 



Hab. Bankinsing. 



DiSTEiB. India, Malay, the Philippines. 



15. Gynostemnia Blume. 



- Gynostemma pedatum Blume; Hayata Fl. Mont. Formos. p. 100. 

 Hab. Arjsan, 



