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leaf not very acute nor much longer than the others, male peduncle less than: 

 4 in., fruit not longer than hroad. Bryonia Garcini, DC. Prodr. iii. 308; 

 Itoxh. Fl. Ind. iii. 727; Wall Cat. 6712; W, ^ A. Prodr. 344. Zehneria 

 Garcini, Stocks in Hook. Keiv Journ. Bat. iv. 149 ; Dalz. Sf Gibs. Bainh Fl. 99. 



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: Bundelkund; Edgeworth, Dbccax Peninsxtia ; Bottler ^&c. Cbyi-on; TAwadtes. 

 Annual; stem not elongatCj more or less scabrous and punctate, scarcely at all^ 

 hairy. Leaves 1-1^ in. diam., lobes often sinuate and lobed; petiole ^-| in*; 

 stipuliform bracts I in. and more, elliptic, with long cilia. Fruit | by ^ in. 



2. C. cerasiformis, Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 5, vi. 13 ; middle lobe 

 of the leaf acute longer than the others, male peduncle ^-1 in,, fruit ellipsoid 

 not in the least narrowed into the peduncle. Zehneria cerasiformis, Stocks tn 

 Hook. KewJoam. Bat. i\. 1^9. X 



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Scinde; Stocks. Gttjerat; DahelL — Distbib. Tropical and Southern Africa, 

 Hardly distinguishable from C. Garcini. Leaves usually larger, sometimes 3 in. 



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climbing scabrous herb; tendrils ample. Leaves petioled, cordate or 



ovate, acute, little lobed. Flowers minute; males and females 



d in the same axils, short-pedicelled. Male: calyx-tube short, cam- 



5, teeth 5, minute ; corolla 6-partite ; stamens 3, filaments very short, 



free, one 1-Cftllftd. twn S^AlIwi - pftlla nblnTio_ straiffht: connective not 



produced. Fruit small, membranous, obovoid, subtrigonous, 1-celled, with 



seeds. Seeds with three narallel eaual cells, the two lateral 



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Exceedingly like Mukia scabrella except as to the seeds, and the flowers are 

 smaller. Leaves 2 A by If in., scabrid and somewhat hispid on both surfaces; petiol© 

 } in. Fruit i in. diam. Seeds ^ by l and ^ in. thick, attached to the very bottom 

 of the fruit, erect. — Female ^wer^ not seen. ! 



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shortly campanulate, the bottom shut by a honzoi 

 anceolate ; corolla campanulate, 5-partite, segments 

 own ; filaments 5, inserted near the moutn 



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pressed, smooth.— DisTRiB. Species 2, Bengal, Malaya, China. _ , iv :, 



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