314 LIV. CUCURBITACEX, 
Tendrils simple. 
MS Kim: ve an NS. to the connective. Fruit 
4. Cucumis. 
Ped without. appen nda: age. 
Corolla with incurved scales at froen of the stamens. 
ruit usually pulpy, sometimes dehise . . 5. Momorpica. 
Corolla silent ee scales. Fruit a di berry . . 6. Bryonia. 
oan straight, 
Calyx-tube broadly campanulate e "eg appendage. 
Female flowers pedunculate, bearing st 7. MELOTHRIA. . 
. Calyx-tube turbinate. Anthe ers with a row appendage. Female 
css TS —— Sege? staminodia 8. Mou, 
Trige IL. Sicyeve.—Ovules solitar, ary, pendu 
Tenis "est "Flowers small. ` Fruit in WEE: in the 
ustralian species 9. Sicyos. 
I. TRICHOSANTHES, Linn. 
Calyx in tiie males and free part of it in the females oblong or qua. 
dilated upwards, 5-lobed. Corolla rotate, deeply divided into 5 oblong or 
lanceolate lobes, bordered by long hair-like lobes or cilia. Stamens in the 
males 3, filaments very short, free: anthers 2 with 2 cells, one with 1 cell, 
the cells conduplicate. Ovary in the females oblong o1 globular, with 3 pla- 
rob style slender, with 3 linear stigmas, the gynæcium pedio in the 
ma s to 3 filiform rudiments. Fruit succulent, often large, with a 
id smooth or TA. undulate or crenate margins.— Climbing annuals or 
perennials. Tendrils 2- or 3-branched. a tack white, large or sma all, the 
males in Sien 1 racemes, the Gate solita 
The genus is dispersed over tropical Asia meric f our Australian species 
Ko are common Asiatic ones, the other two are upisah but as yet sufficiently known. 
es palmately or SC divided into petiolate segments T. pentaphylla. 
Tae palmately lob ` 
racemes dote Fruits acuminat . OU ME 
m peores with hugs eer leafy bracts. Fru uite uot acuminate . 8. 7. palmata. 
-cordate, not lobed, senis villous. Male racemes Si 
et prad or eg, bracts .T Hearst 
T.(?) pentaphylla, 7. Muell. Herb. Feeën a Se climber, the 
ër 5 ovate 
* as round as a ball, seni red, e flesh deep yellow, the p 
green " (Dallachy). Seeds c ompressed, thick, oblong, the margin entire. 
roba river, F. Mueller ; Rockingham Bay, Dallachy 
E > not wer Pn further examination of the flowers, of w ae 
y to open he foliage is that o vifairia, to which it may POSS) ^. one ` 
transferred notwithstanding the narrower Sebi ag uless the two genera be combined Em. 
2. T. cucumerina, Zinn. Spec. Pl. 1432. Stems slender, D dem 
sometimes extending to a cem length. eg nearly orbicular oF 
