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Flores diœcii ? fl. ^ : 11 mm. longi ; calyces campannlati, 3 mm. in 

 diametro, breviter 5-dentati, dentibus 1 mm. longis. CoroUae 5- 

 partitse, segmentis ovatis obtuis 3 mm. longis 2 J mm. latis patenti- 

 bus flavis. Ovarinm oblongum 4 mm. longum, 3 mm. in diametro. 

 apice rostratum, rostro IJ mm. longo, stylo 3 mm. longo, disco 

 annulari inserto, stigmatibus 3, capitatis, 2-lobis. Fl. J ignoit, 

 Bacca globosa 1 cm. in diametro polysperma capillariter stipitata, 

 stipite 2-3 cm. longo. Semina ovata complanata albescentia 4 mm. 

 longa, glabra. 



Hab. Banchoryö ; Eokkirisha, leg. Gr. Nakahaea, Oct. 1905, 

 (No. 592). 



Alsoniitra Rœm. 



Alsomitra integrifoliola Hayata n. n. 



Alsomitra clavigera Heney List of PL Formos. p. 4(3 ; Matsum. 

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



Gijnostemma integrifoUola Cogniaux in DC. Monogr. Phanerog. 

 III. p. 916. 



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

 Formosa p. 46, as Alsomitra clavigera Hook. f. and is also referred 

 to the same species by myself in Enum. PI. Formos. p. 164, as 

 the description of Hookee's plant is, in greater part, in accord 

 with my plant. ^Ir. E. D. Meeeill of the Bureau of Science, 

 P. I., when we wore together looking over the Formosan collections 

 in the Herbarium at Tokyo, told me that he thought the plant to be 

 identical with Gijnostemma integrifoUola Cogn. To what species the 

 present plant should be definitely referred was a very difficult 

 question for me, mitil I saw the types of Hookee's and Cogniaux's 

 species and Heney's specimen, all preserved here in the Kew 

 Herbarium. A comparison of my plant witli the specimens above 



