720 iMONOECiA SYNGENESIA. Bryonia. 



three to five-lobed ; /o6es scollop-tootlied. i?emes conical, 

 smooth. 



Compare with B. epigaea. Willd. iv. 619. 



Tel'mg. Naga-doiida. 



It grows in places similar to the former species, and flow- 

 ers at the same seasons. 



Stems annual, climbing-, seldom as thick as a quill, round, 

 smooth, jointed, often bending at the joints in a right angle. 

 Tendrils simple. Leaves petioled, three-lobed ; lateral lobes 

 often two-parted, and the anterior, from one to three-parted, 

 all are remotely and slightly toothed, somewhat fleshy and 

 a very little scabrous; about two inches each way. Pe- 

 tioles round, smooth. Male flowers small, yellow, se- 

 veral collected on the apex of a ro ind, smooth, common pe- 

 duncle ; each half its proper, short pedicel, and bracted at its 

 insertion. Female flowers axillary, solitary, or accompa- 

 nied with a male raceme, short-peduncled. Berry conical, 

 smooth, red, many-seeded. 



4. B. pilosa. Roxh. 



Herbaceous, hairy. Leaves round cordate, toothed, downy. 

 Male flowers on a short filiform raceme. Berries beaked, 

 hairy, from two to six-seeded. 



Compare with B. rostrata. Willd. iv. 016. 



Teling. Cucuma-dunda. 



It grows with the former three species, and flowers at the 

 same time. 



Stems annual, climbing, five-sided, hairy. Te7idrilsmn~ 

 pie. Leaves petioled, round, cordate, toothed, downy, from 

 one to two inches each way. Male flowers axillary, ge- 

 nerally two on a long delicate peduncle. Female flow- 

 ers single, sessile in the same axill. Berry sub-conical, of 

 the size of a cherry, red, striated lengthways, hairy. Seeds 

 from two to six, black, with a membranaceous border. 



J\rote. Those three last described species are not employed 

 for any use that I know of. That part of the Hindoo name of 



