38 G. King — MateriaUfor a Flora of the Malayan Feninsula, [No. 1, 
lateral ; connective prolonged, OTidivided^ glabrous- FemaU calyx and 
corolla as in the male ; ovaiy ofaloiig, style long ; stigmas 3, snbglobose ; 
ovules many, horizontal ; placenJaa 3, vertical. Fmit indehiecent, 
globose^ acuto or fiieiform, subrostrate. Seeds many, small, oblong, 
mticli compressed, obscurely niar-gined, smooth or vei-y nearly so. Dis- 
TRIB- Species aboub 55, all tropical. 
Frnit not beaked : — 
Fruit glolnilnr, plabroos ... ... ... 1. M. afmh. 
Frnit oblong, glabroiiH ... ... ... 3. Jlf. indica. 
Fruit be»ked 
Fruifc fnsiform,^ beaked, velvoty ... ... ... 3. 3f. marginata> 
L MELOTHitiA AFPISI3, B. spcc. King. Scaudeut ; the stem slender, 
glabrous, 4-at)gled ami deeply sulcate, not rooting at the nodes; ihc 
tendrils rather stout, bifid. Leaves ovate-cordate to triangahir, often 
3-5-lobed, the edge.*9 denticulate ; npper snrface densely scabrid-hispid, 
the hairs white; the lower paler and with liaii*s of the same colour 
but sparaer and more slender j length l"35-4"25 in., breadth 1*5-3 25 in.» 
petiole "5-1 in. Male and femala flowers often from the eamo axil ; 
the viales in many -flowered umbels on pedicels twice as hmg as the 
leaf -petioles, pubescent below, glabrous above ; pedicels about 20, slender, 
uiieqnal, dilated at the apex, glabrotigs, *25-'35 in. long. Flowers '1 in. 
in diam., globose, pubescent^ with 5 slender short diverging subulate 
teeth below the month. Pefah not seen ; inithersti, strniglit, tlie conne- 
tive iiot pi'oduced. Pedicel of the fruit shorter and stouter tliant the 
peduncle of the male nmbel, glabrous. Fmii globose, glabrous, thin- 
walled, many-seeded, red when ripe, "4r-"5 in, in diam. ; seeth obovoid, 
pitted, somewhat compressed, pale. 
Fkrak ; ScoriecHni ids ; Wr ay SBO^ 1404; Cttrti^ Ki7i</s CoUectnr 
lOGOt 2539. BOKKEO ; BANfiEltMASSlNG ; Motley 167. 
Ifr. C B. Clarke, who was bo good as to ©xatitine my specimens o£ tbia sporJps 
and to compare tbcm for mo at Kew, asHares me that tlio Pprak Ejjccimone agree 
exactly witb Titotley's 167. Mr. Glarko eonBvders tho speciea aa cloaejy nlJied to 
Jf. marginatQi Cogn. from which it differs by its globular glabrous fruit. 
2. Mki-o'I'ukia ikdica, Lour, Flor. Coeh. China, 35. SiQm slender, 
filiform, glabrous, 3-6 feet long, often rooting at the nodes, the tendrils 
Bimple, Leaves triangular- cordate, acute, entire or 3- lobed (sometimes 
deeply) ; the nerves somewhat hairy, otherwise glabrous, the lobes 
irregularly denticulate or lobnlate ; length 1*25-2 in. and breadth the 
same, petiole '6-1 in. Male pediceh solitary or in racemes of 2 or 3 ou 
peduncles 1 in. long; calyx-tnbe broadly canipanuhite, its teeth subu- 
late, spreading ; corolla white, pnberulous^ its segmeuts ovate-oblong. 
Slamens witli thick obcotric filaments, glabrona or spai-sely villoae; 
anthers ovatc-oblong, ciliaie, the connectivu mncb pi-oduced. Feduncle 
