4X) G. King — Mattn'ials ftrr a Flora of the Malayan Fenumila. [No. I, 
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which Mr. C. B. Clarke, (who elabonited the family of Cticurbitaceie for Hooker^s 
Flora of Britisb Inilia, and who kiuclly compflrod my Malayan mafcerral in the Kew 
Herbnriuni) iionflidera jis probably new, Biit, «s these tvant cither flowers or fruit, 
I am obliged to leave them un described. The chief amongst theso are Perak, Wray 
2228 Bitd 3416 1 and AndamaDB, Khig'a Collector 2200. 
8. Gynostemma, Blume. 
Climbing herbs, tendrils simple. Leaves pedate ; lenflets 3-5^ ovate- 
lanceolate, eei-rate, membranous, Fhwer$ rnna.]], dioBcious, in axillary 
diffiiao panicles^ greenisli. Male flower ; caljx sliort, with 5 small lobes ; 
corolla rotate, 5-partite, with lanceolate segments; stamens 5, filaments 
connate below; anthers 2-celled, the cells straight and elongate, 
^'enjaie^oiyer, calyx and corolla as in the male; ovary rotand, 2-3-celled; 
styles 2 or 3j united below, bifid at the apex; ovules 2 in each cell, 
pendulous. Fruit globose, umbonate, iudehiscent, aa large as a pea, 
I. -3'Seeded. Seeds ■wingless, verrucose, sub-muricate. Species 4 j all 
Indo-Malayan. 
Gynostemma Pi5DATA^ Blume Bijdr. 23. Slender, 30-20 feet long* 
young branches and leaves puberulous or glabrous, rai'ely pubescent* 
J^ea-ye* membnmoMs, trifoliolato or pcdate, the petioles 1-J'o in. long; 
leaflets 3-7, ovate-oblong, lanceolHte or oblanceoJafce, urjeqnal, the 
middle the longest, their apices acute or stib-acute, the bases naiTOvved 
and sometimes oblique, the edges creuulate or c re n ate- dentate ; length 
'75-2'5 in., breadth '4-1 in,, the petioliules *i-2 in. Panicles longer 
than the leaves, 3-6 in, or even a foot long, slender, sparsely branched, 
more or less coarsely pubescent, Cahjx-segTumts triangular, acute ; 
segments of mrolla 1- nerved, ciliate-dentate. Fruit "15 in, in diara. 
Seeds trigonous. Roem, Syn,, fasc. II, p. 110 ; Miq. Flor, Ind. Bat. I, 
Pt. I, 683 ; Clarke in Hook*! fil. Flor. Br. Ind. II, 633 ; Cogn. in DC. 
Mon. Phan. Ill, 913t Q. Zoica, Cogn. Mon. Phan. Ill, 914; Zanonia 
laxa. Wall. Cat. 3727; PL As. Bar, II, 29; Axtu in Hook, Joum. 
Bot. 111^272 {171 note). Zanonia cissoides. Wall. Cat. 3726 ; PI. As. Ear, 
II, 28. L. Wighiiana, Arn, Pugill. 38 ; Nov. Act. Aead. Nat. Cur. 18, Ft. 
I, 356; Roem. Syn., fasc, II, 117. Almmitra laxa, Hoem. Syu., fasc. II, 
118. PesfoJo^^m ?aa;a, Tbw. Enum. PL Zeyl, 124. P. pedata, Zoll. et 
Moritz. Syat. Yerz. p. 31. Als(»nih'a cissmdes^ Roem. Syn., faec. II, 118, 
Mnkylia trigynUy Qritf. PL Cantor. 27 ; Miq. Prol, Flor. Jap., pp. 15 and 
142. E, digynai Griff. PL Cantor. 27. Zanonia pedata^ Miq, Flor. 
Ind. Bat. I, Pt. I, 683, Gynosteimna cissoidesy Francli, et Sav, Enuna. 
PL Jap. I, 176. Yitis atroviridis, Wall. Cat. 6040 ; Vitis trichopJiora, 
Wall. Cat, 9032. 
Pbeak ; King^s Collector 2306. DiSTRiB. Malayan Archipelago, 
British ludia and Tonkiu. 
