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^^ Extensively scandent, tendrils 2-3-fid. Leaves long-petioled, cordate^ ovate, 

 little lobed. Floivers large, yellow, dioecious ; males frequently two peduncles 

 from one axil, one early deciduous 1-flowered the other racemose without 

 Drafts ;^ females solitary on very short peduncles, Male : calyx-tuhe elongate, 

 cylindric at the base, above narrow funnel-shaped ; teeth 6, long, linear ; petals 

 o, elliptic, nearly separate, entire : stamens 3 ; anthers connate, included, one 

 1-celled, two 2-celled, cells conduplicate. Female : calyx and corolla as in the 

 male; ovary oblong, 3-celled, style long, with three oblong bifid stigmatic 

 lobes; ovules pendulous, 4-6 in each cell Fi-uit broad-oblong, narrowed at 

 both ends, 3-angular, irregularly sinuate-costate, valves 3 separating from the 

 ftxis nearly to the base. Seeds in two rows in each cell, flat, oblong, pendulous, 

 the lower end corrugate or almost 3-lobed. 



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Cat, 6761. Bryonia? pedunculosa, Seringe 



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EHATE Himalaya, from Simla and Kumaon to Bhotan, alt. 5000-8000 ft. ; 

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' ^ Stem and peduncles more or less pubescent. Leaves 4-6 in. long and broad, usu- 

 ^7 pubescent on both surfaces, serrate, acuminate; petiole 2-4 in, Male peduncle 

 8 in., pedicels 1 in., hairy. Calyx-tuhe 1 in., pubescent without. Vdals oit^n 1 in. 

 -Rudiment of the ovary in the male linear, simple. Fruit 3 by 1^ in., more or less 

 pubescent. Seeds usually 12 sometimes 18, \ by \ and ^ in., thick, often exhibiting 

 tS^ „? ^ried) wavy marks on the surface, packed in a fibrous almost juiceless pulp. — 

 Wallich's Khasia specimen exhibits ripe seeds which are very narrow, incised at the 

 wwer end so that the middle lobe appears as a spinous tooth. Lady Dalhousie's 

 examples collected at Simla are nearly glabrous with smaller flowers. Herpdospcr- 

 ^m oi Bth, ^ Hk, / Gen. PL i. 834, described from imperfect materials, includes 

 ^'C<iudigerum, Warea tonglensis and Edgaria darjeelingensis. The generic character 

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^^XE; calyx-tube funnel-shaped subcampanulate, teeth 5 narrow; petals o, 

 ^^e, obovate ; stamens 3 ; anthers connate, included, one 1-celled, two 2-celled, 

 ^"9 conduplicate ; rudiment of ovary 0. Female : calyx and corolla as in the 

 ^Je ; ovary oblong, style short with 3 bifid stignaatic lobes ; ovules many, 

 yizontal ; placentas 3, Vertical. Fruit large, ultimately thick membranous or 

 ^^^<^st woody, indehiscent, polymorphous, usually broader upwards. Seeds 

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Hi: t- 795 ; Jtoxb. FL Ind. iii. 718 ; JFall. Cat. 6719.—Jiheede HmU Mai 



fright III, t. 106' ; Kurz in Joum. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 100. L. vittata, 

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