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ILLUSTRATIONS OF INDIAN BOTANY 



CONSPECTUS OR ABRIDGED CHARACTERS OF THE GENERA OF THE TRIBE 



CUCURBITEiE* OF SCHRADER. 



§ 1. — Fitaments 5, inserted on the throat of the corolla; 

 anthers distinct or S-adelphous^ antkous^ straight ; fruity 

 baccate, Jew seeded, 



1. CoNMNDRA (Schrad.) Corolla 5-partIte : connec- 

 tiva coaniving, oblong, conical: fruit beaked. South 

 Africa, 



2. Cyrtonema (Schrad.) Limb of corolla 5-partite : 

 filaments 5, incurved, connectiva incrassated 3-adel- 

 phous ; anthers fixed laterally under the apes. South 

 Africa, 



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§ 2. — Filaments 



11. Pjlogyne (Schrad.) Calyx campanulate; seg- 

 ments of the corolla patent, much longer than the calyx : 

 anthers one-celled : style entire ; stigma 1, pileate : fruit 

 baccate, few seeded, obtuse. South Africa. [East 7n- 

 dies — Bryonia Garciui f] 



12. ZhHNKRjA (Endl, ?) Lobes of the corolla quite 

 entire : style trifid ; stigmas 3, flabelliform, quite entire ; 

 fruit baccate, few seeded, blunt. South Africa, East 

 Indips and ? Norfolk Island. — Bryonia Mysorenses, 

 B. Hookeriana. 



Perhaps this is only a subgenus of Pilogyne, 



13. Karivia (Arn.) Calyx urceolate, corolla scarce- 

 ly exserted, lobes minute, quite entire ; anthers 2-celI- 

 ed ; style entire ; stigma pileate, 3-fid : fruit a peponida, 

 many seeded, blunt or with a short thick beak. East 

 Indies, lirymiia umhellata, B. amplexicaulis, 



14. Rhvnchocarpa (Schrad.) Lobes of the corolla 

 denticulate, ciliated; style trifid; stigmas 3, jagged and 

 toothed : frait with a long slender beak. Guinea. 



§ G .-^ Filamerds tri-adelphous, inserted at the base of 



3. SicYDiUM (Schlecht.) Corolla 5-petaled, petals 

 undividjed : filaments 3-adelphou3, dilated and incurved 

 at the apex ; anthers without a beak. Mexico, 



4. Brtosopsis (Am.) Corolla 5-partite, lobes obo- 

 vate, entire, undulated: filaments 3-adelphous, inserted 

 on the throat, straight ; anthers pointless : stigma fring- 



Tided : filaments tri-adelphous very short ; anthers anti- 

 cous, inserted along the margins of the connectivum, 

 linear oblong ; connectivum prolonged into a short beak 

 beyond the anther: fruit baccate (always?) beaked. 

 East Indies. Bryonia epigwa, rostra ta^ deltoidea^ and an 

 undescribed species from Malabar. 



15. MuKiA (Arn.) 

 less cohering, erect. 

 ral ; 



Obs.— Perhaps this and the two last genera might be 

 joined to Melothria. 



6- Melothria (Linn.) Lobes of the corolla undi- 

 vided, denticulated: filaments 3-adelphous; connecti- 

 vum pointless : fruit baccate, not beaked. America. 



Obs.— Schrader notices an East Indian one, but that 



may perhaps be an Achmandra. 



7. Cebatosanthes (Schrad.) Lobes of the corolla 

 bnear bifid : filaments 3-adelphous. America. 



8. Angxjria (Linn.) Lobes of the corolla entire- 

 stamens diadelphous : fruit somewhat 4 -angled. America. 



§ 3. —Filaments 3-adelphous inserted on the top of the 

 tube, anthers all cohering by meana of their connectiva, 

 and applied at the back along the margins of the connec- 

 tiva, sigmoid. (?) two- celled. 



9. ScHizosTiGMA (Arn.) Style simple, stiirma pel- 



*^i''iT 'J'''' '^^^* '"*** ^°-'- radiatiDg linear lobes. Andes 

 of Mendosa. {Cucurhita asperata. Gill.) 



§ ^.—Filamtnlfi distinct or tri-adelphous. inserted on the 

 throat of the corolla, anthers 6 or Z-adclphous, gijrose, an- 



10. Sphen,vsthe (Schrad.) Mexico. 



§5, ^ ._.„.,„., w.-„.xctyyrtCH4-, insenea at the base of 

 the coroUa, anthers lateral, straight, 3-adelphom. ^ 



• This trib*? contains all th e East TntlSor, „»„ 

 Cucurbitea- but that genus is very cWll SK i^ ^f 'P* Zanonica- 

 an.i does not belong to thj orderf ^ ^ '*" '^^"'^"^« C^'-^^tt i" 



Style entire, stigmas 3, more or 



Anthers distinct, one-celled, late- 



[connectivum prolonged, forming a projecting point : 



a globose abortive ovary in the bottom of the calyx.] 



East Indies— Bryonia scabiella. [B. leiusperma.'] 



§ 7.~Filaments 5, or tri-adelphous, inserted at the hase 

 of the corolla ; connectiva toothed or lobed, anthers appli- 

 ed at the back along the margins of the connectivum, and 

 therefore flexuose, gyrose, or anfractuose. 



16. BaroNiA (Linn.) Corolla S-deft : anthers tri- 

 * uPfi J "^' °"^-c«"ed : style trifid ; stigmas .•^ubrenifonn 

 or bifid : fruit ovoid or globose, baccate ; few seeded. 

 Europe and East Indies— B. laciniosa, India. B. alba. 

 B. dwica, Europe, Perhaps also B, Garcini and leios- 

 perma, hut of these I have no male flowers by me to ex- 

 amine [^. Gam«/. Stamens tri-adelphoua one-celled; 

 cells linear, marginal, not sigmoid, style one, stigma di- 

 lated, peltate : ovary few seeded ; pepo inverse reniform, 

 j seeded. 1 his is probably a new genus, but if not seems 

 to belong to Pilogync rather than any other here. It 

 cannot possibly belong to Bryonia.] 



In the European plants, the type of the genus, there 

 are two ovules in each of the 3 cells of the ovary-near- 

 ly all Klutne s species belong to other genera. 



17. tiTKULLus. (Schrad ) Corolla persistent, 5-parled, 

 subrotate: anthers tri-adcIphous, bilocular : style 3-fid; 

 stigma obcordate, convex : fruit a fleshy or dry and 

 hbrous many-seeded peponida. Africa, East Indies. 

 CncurbUa citmllus and Cucumis coloynthis. 



18. EcBALiAM (Rich.) Corolla 5 cleft: anthers tri- 

 aaelpbous : ovules in two rows in each cell ; stigmas 

 tnree, two horned : fruit an elastically and irregularly 

 bursting peponid... Europe- Momordica eluterivm. 



ly. MoMoRDicA (Linn ) Petals 5, adnat« to the base 

 0.1 the calyx, deciduous : anthers all cohering : ovules 



Schrader refers 



Jardiue'* Mag. 



Erythropaium of Blume to 

 of Zool. and Bot. vol. 2)» 



