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Twining herts, tendrils usually simple or S-fid, Zea2;e5 petioled, &-angular, 

 nearly entire or deeply lobed. Flozvers white (or yellow ?), somewhat large ; 

 monoecious at least sometimes: male peduncles in fully developed plants 2 

 from each axil, the earlier 1-flowered, the later longer racemose, either often 

 suppressed ; tracts in the racemes persistent, large lanceolate incised or small ; 

 females 1-flowered usually in separate axils. Maxe: calyx-tuhe long, contracted 

 near the mouth, limb of 5 lanceolate segments ; petals 5, not fimbriate on 

 margin; stamens 3; anthers included, connate, elongate, 1-celled, 2-celled, 

 cells conduplicate ; rudiments of the ovary 1. or 3, small, linear. Female : calyx 

 and corolla as in the male ; ovary oblong ; style long, stigmas 3 short linear ; 

 ovides horizontal, many ; placentas 3, long, vertical. Fruit ovate-oblong, acute 

 at both ends. Seeds many or few, ellipsoid, compressed, margined, nearly 

 smooth.— DisTRiB. Species 5 ; in India, China and Malaya. 



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. !• €8"- cochlnchlnense, Kurz in Flora 1871, 296; leaves 6-angled or 

 iObed about half-way down, bracts to the male racemes prominent narrowed 



: at the base deeply lacerate at the apex. Bryonia cochin-chinensis, Lour, FL 

 Coehiwh. 695; DC. P)odr. iii. 306. Momordica tubiflora, Roxb. FL Ind. iii. 

 711, not of Wallich. Tripodanthera cochinchinensis, Roein, Synops, ii. 48. 

 ^tanthus tubiflorus, Naud. in Ann. So. NaL ser. 4, xvi. 172, t. 3. Tricho- 

 ^nthes cucumerina. Wall Cat. 6690 E. T. ? Fatoa, Ram. in Wall. Cat. 6695. 



, wyonia grandis, Wall Cat. 6700 K, L. 



- SiKKiM, up to 2000 ft. alt. Assam, Cachak and Bengal, common. Chota Nag- 

 5*0be. Tenasserjm; Heifer. — Distrib. Malaya, China. 



• Stems slender, 6-angular, more or less scabrous -hairy. Leaves 2-3 in. diam., sca- 

 orous on both surfaces ; tendrils simple or 2-fid. Male racemed peduncle sometimes 

 r^ m., usually shorter ; bracts | in., incise-serrate, lobes often again incised. Calyx- 

 u6e - in.^ villous, closed by deflexed hairs within above the stamens. Rudiments of 

 ^oi'ary in the male flower 3. Petals i in., ovate, entire or somewhat crenate. 

 jy\^ by I in., orange-red, somewhat scabrous, with 10 longitudinal ribs, pulp 

 Peenish, not very succulent. Seeds J by ^ and ^j^ in. thick 



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,, 2. G. qalnquelobum, Miq. FL Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 681 ; leaves subor- 

 ^jcular deeply 6-lobed lobes often subpinnatifid, bracts of the male racemes 



t ? a ^^ serrate. Scotanthus Porteanus, Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser, 5, v. 25. 



I ^^. neterophyllum, Knrz in Trimen Joam. Bot. 1875, p. 326, 



Eakgoon; McCldland. Pinang; Porter. Malay Peninsula ; Griffith. Singa- 

 ^5 G. Thomson. — Distrib. Malaya to Borneo. 

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th fl^ ' ^^ ^® perhaps a specimen with poorly developed male racemes. Kurz says 

 the i!^^^ ^^ white, and quotes Bryonia heterophylla, Wall. Cat. 6711; which obsciu'es 

 >.®^nole matter, for that plant is Bryonia palmata, Wall, (nov Cephalandra) while 



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^^^'^hylla. Wall. No. «704 (and of which there is a solitary sheet) differs al- 

 ^*^ether from Mr. Kurz' description and is a Cerasiocarpum. 





^JqA ^n Wlg-htil, Am. in Hook. Journ. Bat iii. 278 ; leaves 6-angled or 

 n "^^? tracts of the male racemes small simple linear. Thwaites Enum. 127. 

 ^Iv^r^^^^'^j ^rn. I c. Bryonia tubiflora, W. ^ A. Prodr. 347. Cucurbita 

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