724 MONOECiA SYNGENEsiA. Bryonia. 



Mote. The form of tlie fruit must be attended to, to dis- 

 tinguish these three last described species. 



The fruit of this sort is used in food by the natives and 

 much esteemed, yet they never take the trouble to cultivate 

 the plant. 



9. C. integrifolia. Roxh. 



Leaves sub-rotund, ahnost destitute of angles, very rugose, 

 posterior lobes rounded, both male and female flowers soli- 

 tary. Fruit globular, smooth. 



A native of Bengal, blossoming and ripening its seeds dur- 

 ing the rains. 



Stems annual, creeping to a great extent, and exceedingly 

 ramous, angular and hairy. Leaves sub-rotund, with scarce- 

 ly any angles, or rather marginal inequalities, deeply sinuated 

 behind, with the lobes rounded, very rugose, scabrous above 

 and hairy underneath, from three to six inches each way. 

 Male flowers solitary, long-peduncled, large, pure white, 

 pubescent. Female flowers also solitary, but shorter pe- 

 duncled, pure white and pubescent. Fruit globular, of the 

 size of a nutmeg, smooth, when ripe of an orange colour. 



BRYONIA. Schreh. gen. N. 1480. 



Male calyx five-toothed. Coral five-parted. Filaments 

 three. Female calyx and corol as in the male. Berry iew 

 or many-seeded. 



1. B. scabrella. Willd. iv. 610. 



Leaves five-angled, toothed, scabrous, the male flowers pe- 

 tioled, and the female ones sessile. Berries globular, many- 

 seeded. Seeds smooth. 



Hind. Agun\u\ii. 



Telinr/. Pnten budinga. 



Cucumis Madraspalcnsis fructo niinimo. Pluck. 123. ^70. 

 /.2. 



