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"iiiiVery near Z. Batierimia and possibly not distinct: but the ovary is globose even 

 before the expansion of the flower. The leaves are also generally aeperous above and 

 idihetimet much more hairy beneath than in any undoubted examples of Z. Bauer- 

 iana. The African distribution of this cannot be defined, as Z. scrobicvlata and evwi 

 PUogyne lucida, Nazid. can hardly be distinguished from it, 



■8. Z> umbellata, Thimites Enum. 125; leaves cordate or hastate 

 tounded angled lobed or 3-5-partite nearly to the base, petiole usually shorter 

 than the auricles, fruit f-lj in. smooth or shortly silky cylindric not rugose, 

 «eeda few obovoid only slightly compressed margin obscure rounded faces quilie 

 smooth or slightly rough. Kurz in Joui-n, As. Soc, 1877, pt, ii. 105. Z. hastata 

 and connivens, Miq. FL Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 656. Karivia unibellata, ^m. m Sook. 

 Joum. Bot, iii. 275 ; Miq. I c. 661. K. Rheedii, Boem. ; Miq. I. c. 661. Momor- 



dica umbellata, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 710. Bryonia umWlata, Kldn:, DC Frodr. 

 m. 305 ; Wall. Cat. 6705 ; W. 8f A. Prodr. 345 ; Dah. ^ Gibs. Bomb. Fl 101. 

 B.sinuosa, Wall. Cat. Q7lQypartly. B. amplexicaulis, Lamk. Diet. i. 496; i)C. 

 le. 806; W.8f A. Prodr. 346. B. sa^ttata and Rheedei, Blume] DC. I. c. 

 305, 306. Harlandia bryoidoides, Hance in Walp. Ann, ii. 648.— IJAeerfe Rort. 



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Throughout Indu and Ceylo^, very common. — Distbib. Malaya, China, Nortii 

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Stem and leaves usually nearly glabrous, or leaves scabrous above ; petiole short, 

 Wen hispid. Leaves polymorphous ; sometimes 6 by scarcely 1 in., narrow triangular- 

 taeeolate, sometimes cordate-oblong much rounded, often palmate nearly to the base 

 ^*;^ 3--5 narro"Vir divaricate segments; basal lobes usually produced strongly bactwards, 

 "^^ subacute or most acute. ' Inflorescence usually dioecious, male corymbose on a 

 peotincle 2-4 in. or sessile; pedicels glabifotls or hairy, subbracteate; females solitary, 

 ^ly short peduncled. Young ovary narrow-oblong, glabrous or somewhat pubescent. 

 ^P^^ bright-red, usually much larger than that of the two preceding species. Seeds 

 ■about 12; sometimes only 4-6 in the typical Z. ufubellata, as said always in Z. 

 ^^plexicaulis by W. & A. — Wight says that Z. umbeUata may be distinguished from 

 A a'mpleancaulis by having small oblong bracts on the middle of the pedicels, but 



fle^ cannot be made out even in Wight's own specimens. 



■ Var. n^aZewm, leaves deeply 5-palmate with narrow lobes, scattered glands, 

 ^?|^ ovaiy densely velvety, seeds oblong slightly compressed quite smooth and 

 i^ded with no ti:ace of a margin. Bryonia 9iepalensis, Seringe in DC. Prodr. iii. 

 '*"2[r::Teniperate Western Himalaya, ait. 4000-7000 ft.; Roi/le; Thomson; Jaeque- 

 ^'^^^l Strachey ^- Winterbottom, &c.-^A variety many times collected but only within 

 ^ very limited area in Gurwhal, Kumaon and Kunawur. 



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 little hairy, often punctate. Flowers small, 

 '^te, usually monoecious", males and femajes often from the same axil ; male 

 l^icels long, clustered (rarely subsolitary) in the axils, or clustered on long 

 JJJeniefl resembling branches without leaves; female long-pedicelled. Male: 

 ^yx-tube short, teeth 6, small ; corolla 5-partite ; stame 



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