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CUCURBIT A C E 2E . 
GYNOSTEMMA Blume. 
Gynostemma elongatum sp. nov. 
Poliis pedatim 5-foliolatis; foliolis sribmembrana'ceis, integris, glabris, 
acuminatis, basi acutis inaequilateralibus ; floribus albis, dioieis, femineis 
8 ad 10 mm longis. 
Scandent, glabrous throughout, except the inflorescence. Stems 
slender, brownish. Leaves pedately 5-foliolate, the petioles 2 cm long, 
petiolules about 5 mm long; leaflets elliptical-ovate, 4 to 6 cm long, 2 to 
3.5 cm wide, submembranaceous, glabrous, entire, base inequilateral, acute, 
apex short acuminate and sharply apiculate; nerves about 4 on each 
side of the midrib, distant, curved, reticulations very few ; tendrils simple, 
10 cm long or more. Panicles about 15 cm long, narrow, the branchlets 
slightly pubescent. Pistillate flowers white, 8 to 10 mm long, the calyx 
tube narrowly oblong, densely ferruginous-puberulent, 2 mm thick, the 
lobes spreading, 1.5 mm long. Corolla rotate, the lobes ovate, acute, 
2.5 mm long, veined. Ovary 3-celled; styles 3, free, cleft. Immature 
fruit oblong, 2 cm long, 4 mm thick, truncate. Staminate flowers 
not seen. 
Luzon, Province of Bataan, near Lamao, For. Bur. Curran, November 23, 
1906, climbing on trees in clearings. 
A curious species, the leaves nearly identical with those of Gynostemma 
integrifoliolum Cogn., but well characterized by its elongated ovary; possibly a 
new genus, but difficult to determine this with certainty without staminate 
flowers and mature fruit. 
Gynostemma pedatum Blume Bijdr. (1825) 23; Cogn. in DC. Monog. Phan. 
3 (1881) 913. 
Luzon, Province of Benguet, Baguio, Elmer 6033, March, 1904: Province of 
Bataan, Lamao River, Whitford s. n., June, 1904. Mindanao, Lake Lanao, Camp 
Keithley, Mrs. Clemens s. n., November, 1906, and March, 1907. 
British India to Japan to Sumatra, Borneo and Java; new to the Philippines. 
