1 96 THE BOTANY OF CHRISTMAS ISLAND. 



glands ? 3-4 inches long 4-5 across, petiole 1-2 inches 

 long slender, nerves 7 pairs radiating from the base 

 Tendrils long and slender. Male flowers numerous in 

 umbels on peduncles £-1 inch long slender glabrous, 

 pedicels slender ^ inch. Calyx cupshaped glabrous 

 obscurely toothed. Corolla small J inch long white 

 glabrous lobes lanceolate subacute. Stamens 3, filaments 

 glabrous, anthers elliptic thick, connective not prolong- 

 ed. 



Female flowers 4 or 5 in an umbel, white, ovary nar- 

 rowed to a beak. Fruit elliptic pink -| inch long 

 Seeds rounded flat smooth margined. 



Extremely abundant, Flying Fish Cove Waterfall. 

 Phosphate hill, Plateau, etc. 



This is the JJelothria mucronata of the flora of Christ- 

 mas Island doubtless, which is identified with Zehneria 

 Baueriana, Eudl. but it does not appear to me that it 

 can be even a form of this plant. 



Melothria, sp. Trailing on rocks east coast (Andrews). There 

 may be another of these small Cucurbitacese here, as I 

 found a plant with a single yellow flower on the water- 

 fall track, but could get no more. 



Momordica charantia, L. This common cultivated plant has 

 run wild about cleared spots. It is of course not native 

 but is the common small fruited form to which the 

 cultivated form quickly reverts. 



AbALIACEjE. 



Heptapleurum natole, d. sp. 



A long climber with grey stems. Leaves 5 foliate, 

 petiole 3 inches long, leaflets elliptic obtuse or subacute 

 rather fleshy light green, the two outer ones smaller 

 and suborbicular 2 inches long 1^ wide, central ones 

 4 by 2^, petiolules slender | to 1 inch long. Cymes 

 3 or 4 inches long branched from the base, lower 

 branches 2 inches long, flowers copious green 10-13 



Jour* Straits Branch 



