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panicles 40 cm. long 15 cm. broad, pyramidal, very slender, loosely flowered, 

 loosely branched, basal branches 15 cm. long, bracts at the base of 

 the branches, pedately 3-foliolate, with additions of two small basal 

 segments, 1 cm. long including stalks. Fl. J : patent, 6-7mm. in diameter, 

 pedicels slender, 2 mm.-5 mm. long. Calyx flattened, 4 mm. in diameter, 

 5-lobed, lobes elongately oblong broadest at the base, obtuse at the 

 apex. Petals 5 distinct, obovate, 3 mm. long, 2J mm. broad, round, shortly 

 apiculate at the apex, cuneate at the base, hirsute towards the margin, 

 horizontally patent. Stamens 5, distinct, clustered on the centre of the flowers, 

 divaricate each other, incurved downwards at the apex, filaments f mm. long, 

 anthers 1-celled, with a red round gland on the back. Rudimental ovary 0. 

 Fruiting panicles pendulous, 40 cm. long, 20 cm. wide, • profusely fructiferous, 

 pedicels l-lj cm. long. Pods cylindrical, 5 cm. long, 12 mm. in diameter in 

 section, obtuse at the base, quite truncate at the apex, opening by a 

 terminal round triangular mouth furnished with three valves, each 

 turning inside, walls light brown glabrous, rough or elevately punctate to- 

 wards the base, or slightly muricate, with a line around the mouth ; valves 

 very broad, broadly triangular 1 cm. broad at the bsse, 5 mm. long. Seeds 

 pentagonal in outline, stalked, flattened, 8 mm. long including stalks, 7 mm. 

 broad, margin 2-lamellate, blantly-toothed, teeth 5, 2|- mm. broad 1|- mm. long, 

 stalks 3 mm. long, 2-mm. broad ; wings inserted between lamellas, very 

 thin membranaceous, semi-transparent, oblong-linear, 2 cm. long, 5-6 mm. 

 broad. Embryo triangular-ovate, 5 mm. long, 2^ mm. broad, radicle very 

 short 1 mm. long ; cotyledons broadest at the base, truncate or emarginate at 

 the apex. 



Alsmriitra davigera Henry List PL Formos. p. 46 ; Matsum. et Hayata 

 Enum. PI. Formos. p. 164, (non Hook. f.). 



Gynostemma integrifoliola Cogniaux in DC. Monogr. Phanerog. III. p. 

 916. 



The present plant is mentioned in Henry's List of Plants from Formosa 

 p. 46, as Alsomitra davigera Hook, f . and is also referred to the same species 

 by myself in " Enum. PI. Formos. p. 164," as the description of Hooker's 

 plant is, in greater part, in accordance with my plant. Mr. E. D. Merrill 



