Melothria. | LXIV. CUCURBITACEX (HOOKER). 568 
diameter, exactly triangular with a very broad shallow sinus, lobes all 
acute or subacute, toothed or sinuate-toothed, scabrid or minutely Peg 
pillose above, ciliate on the nerves beneath and on the petiole. Male 
fl.: Peduncle 1-flowered very slender, solitary or with a female in the 
same axil, Calyx campanulate. Corolla short, 1-10th in. diameter. 
Anthers with broad membranous connectives, cells diverging upwards, 
ciliate. Female #1.: Peduncle 1-3 in. Ovary ovoid; style slender. 
Calyx and corolla as in the male. Fruit globose, 4 in. diameter. 
Seeds lenticular, flat, 1-10th in. long, border evident, thickened.— 
Bryonia capillacea, Schum. and Thonn. Pl. Guin. 430. 
Upper Guinea. Fernando Po, and Aboh, Vogel! Mann! Barter! Brass, on the 
sea-shore, Barter ! 
Nile Land. Near B. Gazal on the White Nile, C. M. Brownell! (Petherick.) 
Lower Guinea. Golungo Alto, borders of thickets, Dr. Welwitsch! 
Leaves large, very membranous, almost quite entire and not scabrid. 
3. M. deltoidea, Benth. in Flora Nigrit. 368. Very similar to J. 
triangularis, but much stouter; leaves not scabrid, their outer angles 
more rounded; peduncles shorter and ovary fusiform. Berry ovoid, 
~ at both ends.—Bryonia deltoidea, Schum. and Thonn. Pl. Guin. 
Upper Guinea. Aboh, Vogel! : . 
A doubtfal plant, of which none of my specimens are very good; the ovary is fusi- 
orm, but the fruit.globose, as in M. triangularis. 
4. M. cordifolia, Hook.f. Stem slender, glabrous, smooth. Leaves 
membranous, 14-2 in. diameter, very broadly cordate or triangular- 
cordate, obtuse, apiculate, minutely distantly toothed, lobes rounded, 
asal sinus broad and open, minutely scabrid above, glabrous beneath ; 
petiole short, slender. Male fi.: Peduncle capillary, $in. Calyx, 
corolla and stamens as in I. tridactyla. Female fl.: Peduncles 1 or 2, 
Usually in the same axils as the male. Ovary fusiform, rostrate; style 
slender. Calyx and corolla a little smaller than the male. Berry small, 
In. diameter. Seeds few, lenticular, flat, ¢ in. long, slightly bor- 
ered, 
Upper Guinea. Gaboon river, Mann! 
31. RHYNCHOCARPA, Schrader; Benth. et Hook. f. 
Gen. Plant. i. 831. 
Flowers moneecious or dicecious. Male fi. : Racemose or corymbose. 
alyx-tube campanulate, shortly 5-lobed. Corolla rotate, 5-partite. F ila- 
ments 3 rarely 5, free, short, glabrous, inserted in the calyx-tube; anthers 
short, glabrous, one 1-celled, two 2-celled, (or 5 all 1-celled), free or co- 
ering’, cells curved, connective produced into a simple or 2-fid appendage. 
udiment of ovary 0 or small. Female fl.: Solitary or fascicled, shortly 
Peduncled. Staminodes 0 or 3, small. Ovary ovoid, beaked. Style without 
disk or a small one at its base. Stigmas 2 or 3, broad or narrow ; ovules 
€W or many, on 2 or 3 placentas. Berry ovoid, usually beaked, indehis- 
“ent. Seeds few or many, margined or not, testa usually erustaceous and 
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