24 G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malai/an Peititmila. [No. 1, 
6 or 7, short, glabrous, erect. Fruit unknown, Clarke in Flor. Bi*. Ind. 
II, 598, Pierrea di€tyoneura,f Hanee,in Trimen^s Journ, Bot, for 1877, 339* 
Malacca ; Gri^itk. Perak ; Scortechini, SlKGAPOBE ; Ridley 65'27. 
Gulf of Siam; Eance. Djstkib. Teuaaserim. 
Ad e^tami nation of flowers of his Pmrea. dictyonmra, sent to ine by the kto 
Dr. Matice, provDs tlmt that plant|,i8 a speciGS of Honialmm with largier flowers and 
more Btameua. than UBnal. 
Order LIT. CUCtJEBITACE^. 
Climbing lierbs or shnibs ; tendrils solitary, lateral^ spiral, siraple 
or divided. Leaves alternate, petioled^ frequently cordate, simple^ lobed 
or pedately divided. Floiaers raonrocious or dicecious, yellow or wbite, 
racemed and solitary, less commonly panicled. Oahjx-tahe wholly 
adnats to tho ovary; limb rotate, campanulate,, or tiibnlar; lobes 5 
(rai-ely 3), imbricate. Petals 5, inserted on the calyx-limb^ united in a 
tube, or nearly or quite free, sometimes fimbriated at the margin^ valvate 
or involute in the bud. StanietiB inserted at tlie mouth or about tbe 
middle or at the base of the calyx-tube, uRually 3 (sometimes 5 or 2), 
anthers free or united into a tube, one usually l*celled and the other 
two 2-celled, cells straight or flexuoae or condiiplicate, the connective 
sometimes crested or produced. Ovary inferior, usual fy 3-cftrpeilary ; 
gtyle 1 with 3 stigmas, more rarely styles 2-3-4?; placentas usually 3, 
vertical, in double lines, the edges of the carpellary leaves being often 
turned in so far that the ovary (even before fertilization) is spuriously 
3-celled ; ovules usually many, horizontal, rarely pendulons, sometimes 
few and pendulous from near the top of the ovary. Fruit generally 
berried or fleshy, indehisceut or dehiscing by valves or by a circum- 
sciasile lid, often 1-celled, the seeds being often packed in pulp or fibre. 
Seeds usually many, often compressed, horizontal, pendulous, fre- 
quently corrugated or enb-spinose ou the margins, albumen 0. Distrib. 
Speciea 600, in the warmer parts of the whole globe especially in the 
tropics. 
Tribe I. Cdciiumt!R1NE.«, Orules horJaontRl ; fetnal© flowers 
Bolitary, never panicled j stamens 3, rarely 2 or 5, free 
or varionsly cotinata s cells of snthers straight, cnirTed or 
flexnoua ; ovary bearimg 3 (rarely 2 or 5) pUicemtaa : — 
Anther^cellfl oondnpUcate or sigmoid; ooroUa rotate or 
earn paonl ate, divided to tK© base ; — 
Petals cirrhiferona or fimbriate : — 
Seeds only 6, perfect, very large ... ... 1. Hoddsonu. 
Seeds nntneroai!| testa not fibrous ... ... 2, XaiCHOSAifTHls. 
Petnls entire i — ■ 
Calyi-tnhe of male flower elongate ; the anthers in- 
oladed in the tube, cohering:, senile or subiesaile, 
tendrils nBuiilly sijcuple ... ... 3. GTMNorgTALCit. 
