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very small, moncecioue; males in a small corymb at the apex of a long peduncle; 

 females sbort^pedicelled or subsessile, solitary or clustered. Male : calyx-tube 

 campanulate, lobes 5, short ; corolla 5-partite ; stamens 3, nearly sessile at the 

 mouth of the calyx-tube, anthers free, all 2-celled or one 1-celled ; Cells 

 stwdght, oblong, lateral on the thin connective which is not produced ; ovary 

 rudimentary. Female : calyx and corolla as in the male ; ovary ovoid ; disc ; 

 stigmas 3 or 2; ovules not very many, horizontal; placentas 3-2, vertical. Berry 

 ovoid, circumsciss near the base, usually rostrate. Seeds not very many, elhp- 

 fioid or nearly globose, somewhat compressed, smooth or nearly so, little mar- 

 gined.— Distbib. Species 6, in Tropical Africa, the Persian Gulf, and Western 

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1. C. epi^eea, Jffook. f. in Gen. PL I 831 ; leaves punctate or scabrid 

 with minute hairs, fruit ellipsoid or ovoid suddenly contracted into the beak 

 distinctly pedicelled, seeds ellipsoid slightly margined, ^chmandra ©pigs^i 

 Aj-n. in Hook. Joum. Bat. ui. 274 ; Wight Ic. t. 503 ; Dalz. ^ Gibs. Somb.Fl. 

 100. Bryonia epigsea, Bottler ; Willd. Sp. PL iv. 619 ; WaU. Cat. 6709 ; 

 W. ^ A. Prodr. 346. B. glabra, Moxb. Hort Betig. 104, FL Ind. ui. 7^a 

 B. sinuata, WalL Oi^. 6711 D. ^ 



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PENfNStfrA ; bottler ; Wight Belgauin ; Ritchie. Ceylon ; Thwaites. ■ 



m 2 in. diam., nearly entire 3-5-angular or3-5-lobed; lobes usti^Hy oroaa 



peduncle 1^-2 i 

 Seeds about six 



r tonndisn or sinuous oil the margm ; petioie 

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<*tatracted into the beak, seeds ellipsoid not mamned. -. .. ^a' 



Dalz. ^ Gibs. Bomb. FL 100 ? C. Fenzlii, Hook. f. in Oliv. FL Trdp. Afr. u. 5bo. 



\ GuJERAT, near Malpor and Gun<lar ; Dalzell. Also in Stocks' collectipn jrobaoiy 

 from Scinde. — Distkib. Central Africa. 



Hardly differs from C. ^tgaahxxt in the points specified 

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Scindb; DalzelL—DiSTUiB. Persian Gulf and Tropical Africa? 



Whole plant villous. Leaves 2 in. diam., subentire or more or less 3-o- 

 lobos rounded ; petiole f in. Male peduncle 3 in. with 12 flowers at the top. -- 

 and female j?o«;er« as in C. epigma. Fruit J in. the beak \ in. Seeds about l-^, t — 

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date, nearly entire. Flowm^s very small, monoecious j jnale Ppd^"^^^®-5^^^^ithe 

 few clustered flowers at the top; female flower sessile, solitary, oft^ ^^^^ 

 same axil with the male. Male : calyx-tube short campanulate with 5 ^jj^^ 



stamens 3; anthers subsessile, distinct, ^^^r.^.^ 



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