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627 



Soorma Bank, Griffith (Kew Disti-ib. 

 fruit are altogether those of M. odorata 





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. blclrrbosa, C. B, Clarke ^ tendrils 2-fid, leaves deeply cordate 

 ovate caudate-acuminate, male inflorescence elongate racemed. 



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BiEMA ; Griffith (Kew Distrib. No. 2522). 

 Tv'Nearly glabrous ; stem like that of M. odorata; tendrils stout all 2-fid. Leaves 4 

 Dy 3 in. ; petiole 2-3 in. Inflorescence exactly as in Jitf. odorata. Male flower alto- 

 gether of tJie genus, anthers lateral on the connective -which is long produced above 

 them : rudiment of the ovary depressed globose. Fruit not seen. — This appears as 

 an excessively developed M. od<yraia. ., , 



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*^^ Climbing herbs ; tendrils simple. Leaves petioled, orbicular and undivided in 

 the Indian species. Flowers monoecious or dioecious, very small ; males sub- 

 corymbose on a short peduncle; females solitary (rarely aggregated), subsessile, 

 sometimes in the same axil with the male. Maie: calyx-tube campanulate, 

 teeth 5, small ; corolla 5-partite ; stamens 3 (rarely 5) ; anthers free or united 

 one 1-celled, the others 2-celled ; cells straight ; connective crested 2-lobed or 

 *^"produced in two points. Female: calyx and corolla as in the male; 

 ovary ovoid, beaked ; style ending in 2 rarely in 3 long sti^as ; ovules not 

 ^^^y horizontal ; placentas 2 rarely 3, vertical. Fruit ovoid, rostrate, inde- 

 Wscent. Seeds ovoid, compressed, not very many. — Distrib. Species 6; in 



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If TBL. foBtlda, Schrad. in Zinnaa, xii. 404 ; foetid, scaberulous-pubescent, 

 saginas 2, fruit ^ in. globose pubescent beak nearly ^ in., seeds 4-6. Naud. in 



]Clk' ^' ^"*- *^- ^» ^^- 1^^- ^' rostrata^ •^«"' *^ Journ. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 

 ^- ^chmandra rostrata, Am. in Hook. Journ. Bot. iii. 274 ; Dalz. ^ Gibs, 

 fotnb. Fl. 100. Bryonia pilosa, Hoxb. Hort. Beng. 104, Fl. Ind. iii. 726. B. 

 Wicaulis, Wall. Cat. 6713. B. rostrata, Bottler -, DC. Prodr. iii. 304 ; Wall. Cat. 

 °'01 ; W. ^ A. Prodr. 346. B. Perottetiana, Seringe in DC. I. c. Tricho- 

 ?^es foetidissima, Jacq. Ic. Bar. t. 624, Melothria foetida, La7nk. Diet. iv. 87. 

 ^yrtonema convolvulacea and divergens, Bich. Fl. Abyss, i. 286. 



I^Gtjzerat; BahelL Deccan Peninsula ; Bottler; Wight. Malabar Hills? iS'i'ooi*; 

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Africa and Natal 



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pubescent. Leaves 2 in. diara., orbir'ular or ovate, cordate, 



nes small, scarcely 1 in. Calyx hairy 



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red 



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Male racemes small, scarcely 1 in. Calyx hairy with subu- 



.rgined 



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spread 



^;? DELToiDEA. Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 105; leaves deltoid Tpith 



acute basal lobes rough above, berries 

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ing or prostmte herbs, scabrid or subtomentose ; tendrils sim 

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