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Lxv. cucuRBiTACE^. (C. B. Clarke.) 



[^Mukia. 



Nearly allied to M. scahrella. Leaves densely softly villose beneath when young 

 and often when old^ elongated acute at the apex. — Mr. Thwaites says the rudimen- 

 tary pistil in the male flowers is more developed than in M, scahrella and is surrounded 

 at the base with an annulus. 



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Leaves long- or short-petioled, dentate, 



Floiuei 



dioecious, males in a peduncled corjTnb, females solitary on short peduncles or 

 sometimes subcorymbose on a longer peduncle ; bracts or very small. Male : 

 ■calyx tubular-campanulate, teeth 5 small ; corolla divided nearly to the base 

 into 5 triangular segments ; stamens 3, inserted low in the calyx-tube, filaments 

 glabrous or hairy ^n the same species), anthers free, all 2-celled^ or (in the 

 same species) one 1-celled ; anther-cells curved or (in the same species) flexuose 

 or sigmoid ; connective often papillose at the top, scarcely produced Female: 

 •calyx and corolla as in the male ; ovary globose or oblong, glabrous or very 

 hairy ; style cylindric, 3-lobed, surrounded at the base by an annular disc ; 

 ovules many, horizontal; placentas 3. Fruit succulent, indehiscent, globose 

 ellipsoid or cylindric. Seeds many or few, obovoid rounded or compressed, 

 with or without a margin, faces smooth or somewhat tubercular or pitted 

 DrsTKiB. Species 16 (according to Bth. & Hk. f.) or 5 only ; in tropical Asia 

 Australia, and Africa, with one species in South America. 



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or 3-5-lobed half way down, petiole longer than the auricles, fruit I by 

 when dry reticulate-rugose ellipsoid, seeds much compressed oblong mai^ 

 smooth or slightly tuberculate on the faces. Z. mucronata, Miq. Fl Ind. Bat. 

 i. pt. i. 656. Bryonia mucronata, Blume, Bijd. 923. B. mysorensis. Wall Cat 

 €702 ; W. 8f A. Prodr. 345 ; Wight le, t. 758 ; Dak, ^ Gibs. Bomb, Fl. lOL 

 ? B. filiformis, Boxb. FL Ind. iii. 727. Karivia samoensis, A. Gray in Seem. 

 Fl. VitilO^. 



Deccan Peninsula; Wight \ Heyne; Nilghiris, G. Thomson; Canara, Stocks; 

 Belgaum, i?i^cAie.— DiSTBiB. Malaya, Japan, Norfolk Island, Feejees; but the area 

 cannot be separated from that of the next species. . i 



Weak, nearly glabrous. Leaves 2 in. diam., generally sharply denticulate ; V^^^^r^ 

 I in. or short. Flowers frequently monoecious in the same axils, sometimes apparently 

 -dioecious; male peduncle usually 1-2 in., female less than \ in., undivided m all tne 

 Indian examples, but occasionallv the female peduncle is elongate umbellate accora- 

 mg to -Wight.— Eoiburgh's Bryonia Jilif&rmis perhaps belongs here, but the^^F 

 fniit is said to be near 1 in. It has been referred to Melothria indica, hut tne 

 inflorescence is quite unlike that, as are the yellow flowers and stamens of Kox- 

 burgh's picture. 



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Hook. Journ. Bot. iii. 275 : leaves cpr^f te 



auricles, fruit f in. diam. when dry reticulate-rugose globose, 

 i\o^ic.r.c^ r.u — ,^__^ , ,. , ^jy tuberculate on the .. 



iperata, Miq. FL Ind. B 

 \8Q ; Bryonia Ilookenar 

 , ?B. oxyphylla, Wall 



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Co5. Z. scabra, Hay^, ,5j- Smd. FL Can. ii. 486 : Brvonia Ilookeriana, ^ 

 Pi'odr. 345. B. cissoides, Wall 

 (no Jlotaers) . 



North Bengal ; common in SiKKiar, Assam, Khasta, and Cachar, ascending^^^ 

 oOOO ft. alt. Deccan Peninsvia and Cey^'^*' ^r.^^m^^ri • QT-^narnntlv always in . 

 lower hills.— DiSTBiB. Ava, Malaya, Africa. 



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