1898.] G. King — Maiet-iah for a Flora of Urn Mafayan Petiinsula, 41 
This plant vnries as to the number of its leaflets in ita leaves and aa to pubes* 
oence. Tho'pefiate form^ witli S^T-pubertiloHS leaflets have been by some authors 
(among whom is M, Cogniaui, the latest monographer of tho Cucurbiiace^} coa- 
eidered as bolonging to a different Bpet-ies from the plants with tt-lfoliolato glabrous 
shining ienvefl ; and the lattei' has been uamed lata, Aftpr carefully examining 
about a hundred apoctmena collected in different parta of Hrititih India and 
Malaya, I find so many that unite to sonio extent the oharactera relied upon as 
dietinutive that I have been driren, with all reapoot to M. Coguiauzi to adopt Mr. 
Clarke's view that there ia but a single apecica. • 
9» ZooNiA, Linn, 
Climbing berba ; tendrila Bimple. Leaves long-pctioled, simple^ 
or&te or oblong. Floors email, dioocioas, m large compound pendulous 
racemes, males pedicfelled, females sabsessile. Male ; sepals 3, oblong 
or orbicular, concave; corolla rotate, 5 -partite, the segnicntB subacute; 
atamenB 5, free, inserted on a fiesb}' disc, filaments very short ; anthers 
1-ceIIed, transversely oblong. Female ; calyx and corolla as in the mala j 
ovary sub-clavate, at first 3-celled ; styles 3, spreading, 2-tid at the apex ; 
ovules in each cell 2 or many, pendulous, attached in 2 series tp a fleshy 
paiHetal placenta. Cajmde large, eloiigate*cylinclric, clavate, 3-valvod 
at tho trnncate apox. Seeds large, oblong, pendulous, compressed, sur- 
rounded by a lai^ge membranous wing. Distkijj. Species 3 ; British India, 
Malaya. 
Leaves ovafce-oblong I fmit 2*5 in. long ,,. 1. indica. 
Leaves ovate -rotu ad | fruit 5-8 in. long ... .,, 2. Z. Clo,rkei. 
1. Zanokia inpica, Linn, Spec* PL ed. IT, 1457. Slender, climbing 
to tke extent of 30-50 feet, glabrous. Leaves coriaceous, ovate-oblong, 
acute ; tho base 3-nerved, rounded or sotae^vhat emarginate ; main 
nerves 6-8 pairs, curved, spreading, prominent beneath ; length 3*5-6 
in., breadth 2-3 5 in,, petiole "GS-'S in. Fruit cylindz-ic-campanulate, 
glabrous, the apex trancate, 2'5 in. long; seeds ^^i^ thrn, I S-I TS in. 
long; the nucleus oval, only '6 in. long, the rest being wing. Blama 
Bijdr. 937; Ser. in DC. Prodr. HI, 298; Roem. Syu. fasc. II, 117; 
Wight and Am. Prodr. 340; Wight III. t. 103; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I, 
Ft. I, 682 ; Thwaites' Enum. PI, Zoy. 124, 412 ; Clarke in Hook, til. Flor. 
Br. Ind, II, 633 ; Triraen Flora Ceylon II, 26 L 
Pl3EAK ; King's CoUeotor 7108, 7362, 
2, ZANONrA Clarkei, n. spec. King. Slender, 60-80 feet long, 
glabrous, the young branches deeply grooved, Xe«m coriaceous, ovate- 
rotund, acute ; the base broad, emarginate or slightly cordate, with 5-7 
nerves radiating from the apex of the petiole (the lateral one on eaci 
side small) ; length 2-5-3-5 in., breadth 2-5-3 in., petiole 75 in,, tendrils 
bifid. Flowers unknown. Fruit ovoid-cylindi'ic, smooth, S-8 in. long 
J. II. 6 
