268 Dr. R. Wight on the Fruit of the 



into 10 — 12 radiating linear lobes. Andes of Mendosa. (Cucur- 

 bita asperata, Gill.) 



§ 4. Filaments distinct or 3-adelphous, inserted on the throat of 

 the corolla ; anthers 6- or 3-adelphous, gyrose, anticous. 



10. Sphenanthe (Schrad.). Mexico. 



§ 5. Filaments 3-adelphous, inserted at the base of the corolla; 

 anthers lateral, straight, 3-adelphous. 



11. Pilogyne (Schrad.). Calyx campanulate ; segments of the co- 

 rolla patent, mudh longer than the calyx ; anthers 1 -celled ; 

 style entire; stigma 1, pileate ; fruit baccate, few-seeded, ob- 

 tuse. South Africa. [East Indies — Bryonia Garcini ?] 



12. Zehneria (Endl. ?). Lobes of the corolla quite entire ; style 



trifid ; stigmas 3, flabelliform, quite entire ; fruit baccate, few- 

 seeded, blunt. South Africa, East Indies, and ? Norfolk Island. 

 — Bryonia Mysorensis, B. Hookeriana. 

 Perhaps this is only a subgenus of Pilogyne. 



13. Karivia (Arn.). Calyx urceolate; corolla scarcely exserted ; 

 lobes minute, quite entire ; anthers 2-celled; style entire ; stigma 

 pileate, 3-fid ; fruit a peponida, many-seeded, blunt, or with a 

 short thick beak. East Indies, Bryonia umbellata. B. amplexi- 

 caulis. 



14. Rhynchocarpa (Schrad.). Lobes of the corolla denticulate, 



ciliated ; style trifid ; stigmas 3, jagged and toothed ; fruit with 

 along slender beak. Guinea. 



§ 6. Filaments tri-adelphous, inserted at the base of the corolla; 

 anthers all cohering, posticous, linear, straight. 



15. Mukia (Arn.). Style entire ; stigmas 3, more or less cohering, 



erect; anthers distinct, 1 -celled, lateral: [connectivum pro- 

 longed, forming a projecting point : a globose abortive ovary in 

 the bottom of the calyx.] East Indies — Bryonia scabrella. [B. 

 leiospermaJ] 



§ 7. Filaments 5- or 3-adelphous, inserted at the base of the co- 

 rolla ; connectiva toothed or lobed ; anthers applied at the back 

 along the margins of the connectivum, and therefore flexuose, 

 gyrose, or anfractuose. 



16. Bryonia (Linn.). Corolla 5-cleft; anthers tri-adelphous, 1- 

 celled ; style trifid ; stigmas subreniform or bifid ; fruit ovoid or 

 globose, baccate, few-seeded. Europe and East Indies — B. la- 

 ciniosa, India. B. alba, B. dioica, Europe. Perhaps also B. Gar- 

 cini and leiosperma, but of these I have no male flowers by me 

 to examine. [B. Garcini. Stamens tri-adelphous, 1 -celled; cells 

 linear, marginal, not sigmoid, anticous ; style one ; stigma di- 

 lated, peltate ; ovary few- seeded ; pepo inverse, reniform, 2- 

 seeded. This is probably a new genus ; but if not, seems to be- 

 long to Pilogyne rather than any other here. It cannot pos- 

 sibly belong to Bryonia, ,] 



In the European plants, the type of the genus, there are two ovules 



