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626 ,LXV. CUCURBiTACEj;. (C. B. Clarke.) IMelothria. ' 



/I, M. zeylanica, C. B. Clarke ] tendrils simple, leaves not lobed little- 

 cordate, male pedicels clustered in the axils, fruit If in. fusiform. M. del- 

 toidea, Thwaites Enum, 124. ^chmandra deltoidea, Am. in Hook.Joum. BoL 

 iii. 274. Bryonia deltoidea, Am. PugilL 19. 



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Ceylon; common up to 5000 ft, Walker; Gardner, 



Nearly glabrous, stems thin. Leaves 2 by 1^ in., acute, often punctate on both sur- 

 faces; petiole 1 in. Pedicels of males and females about as long as the petioles.. 

 Corolla hairy round the throat ; rudimentary ovary of the male depressed-globose. 

 Ovary fusiform ; stigma large, 3-lobed. Fruit | in. broad, obtusely trigonous, almost 

 rostrate. Seeds ^ in., packed in three colimins. — The name M. deltoidea is pre- 

 occupied by Benth. in Flora Nigrit. 368 for a diflferent plant. 



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2. m. Walllchii, a B. aarke ; tendrils simple, leaves not lobed Uttle 

 cordate, male peduncle racemed, fruit 2 in. fusiform. Bryonia odorata, WaU. 

 Co/. 6706 D. 



Pbome (Burmah) ; Wallich. .^ ^ 



Stem glabrous. Leaves 2-3 by 2^3^ in,, very broadly deltoid, sharply tnan- 

 gular, sinuous scarcely denticulate, scabrous above -with flat round glands, slightly 

 hispid beneath, Male raceTne nearly as in M, odorata. Fruit pedicel f in. Frutt 



rostrate, attenuate at the base, resembling closelv that of M. zevlanica but rather 



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_, 3. VL. indlca, Lour. Fl. Cochinch. 43; tendrils simple, leaves more or 

 lees cordate entire or somewhat S-lobed, male pedicels clustered in the axils^ 

 fruit i in. ellipsoid pointed. DC. Prodr. iii. 313 ; Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat. set. 

 4, xvi. 169, With a Jiff. ; Kurz in Jmm. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 105. M. Re^^^f 

 Xaud. I. c. ser. 5, v. 35. ^chmandra indica. Am. in Hook. Joum. Bat. iii, i7*r 

 Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 658. Bryonia tenella. Roxh. Fl. Ind. iii. 725. 





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alt. 3000 ft. ; C. B. aarke. Silhet in the Jheels ; H. /• & T. Chitta- 

 GONO ; Kurz,— DisTRiB. Malaya to the Philippines, China, Japan. V ^ . 



Nearly glabrous, stem slender. Leaves 1^ by li in., acuminate or scarcely acute, 

 often punctate on both surfaces ; petiole 1 in. Pedicels of males and females about 

 as long as the petioles. Point of the connective short. Fruit white, seeds «*^^^ 

 margined {ex Naudin).—TbxB appears exceedingly rare in India : but it may ^ 

 doubted whether the next is other than a form of it: see Benth. Fl. Hongk. 125. ^ 



4. M. odorata, Hk. f. ^ T. in Herb. ; tendrils simple, leaves more c« 

 less cordate entire or somevsrhat 3-lobed, male pedicels in distant pl^^ ° 

 long racemes, fruit f-^ in. globose quadrate very obtuse. Bryonia odorata, 

 Ham. in Wall Cat. 6706 A. B. 0. 



North- West Himalaya ; Boyle. Throughout the plain of East Bbnoai, commofl, 

 and ascending the hills to 7000 ft. alt. , « . ;„ 



Nearly glabrous, stem often stouter than in M. indica. Leaves 2-3 by H-^* _[ 

 acute, often punctate on both surfaces; petiole 1-1 A in. Male i>^'^«*^*^^ I'^vfjicel 

 what zigzag, with a cluster of pedicels (each ^-f in.) at each angle; ^®°^7?^/j^ 

 as long as the petiole. Corolla white, with much hair round the throat. ^^^^^^ 

 not much produced ; rudiment of ovary in the male flower globose ^^P'^^ff^k^ji y. 

 ^«i in., not or very obflcurely margined.— This species has been separated *^^j| ' 

 tndica by the long raceme of the male flowers, which, however, does not essem ^j^ 

 diflTer. The fruit appears very obtuse, the degree of margination of the seeos 

 hardly be relied on. 



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IB. triloba; lobes of leaf divaricating sometimes very narrow ^^%^ 7^'^z^^ 

 shorter than in the type, Bryonia triflora, Wall. Cat. 6707.— Ea^!^ ^^ 





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