Momordica. | LIV. CUCURBITACEJ. 319 
]-flowered, the males usually longer than the leaf, with a reniform or broadly 
cordate bract a little below the flower, t the females shorter, with the bract be- 
low the middle. Calyx fully 3 in. diameter, with very thin broad acute lobes 
longer than the tube. Corolla yellow, nearly twice as long as the SR 
^ flowers rather smaller. Ovary fusiform, attenuate under the free 
of the calyx. Fruit ovoid-globular, more or less attenuate at the end, a 
lin. Baier, EH irregularly. Seeds 5 or 6, rather large, each one en- 
veloped in a r 
Queens Rockhampton, Dallachy.—NWidely spread over Asia an Africa, and 
now zeegt p Amer 
6. BRYONIA, Linn. 
(Bejenopeiss Dec? 
Seele Corolla det attire deeply 5-lobed. Stamens in the m 
bifi stigmas. Fruit a globular or ovoid-conical berry. Seeds few, com- 
pressed, or with convex faces and a thickened margin enveloped in pulp.— 
Climbing herbs with simple or 2-branched tendrils. Leaves palmately lobed. 
Flowers gr coget small as well as the fruits, in axillary racemes some- 
times r Aug to. clus 
gegen i in specie d verde over the warmer and DA regions bot the New ges ee 
Old World. - The Aus ralian species, however, belongs to the dur Bryonopsis, 
ted by Naudin as a Co " etin limited to 2 or perhaps 3 Asiatic and African bim. 
of which the Australian is 
: l. B. laciniosa, Linn. ; Ser. in DO. Prod. iii. 308. Stems rather slender, 
2 bat extending to a great len ngth. Leaves broad, very deeply palmatifid or al- 
x Suave the lobes ovate ovate-lanceolate or sometimes linear-lanceolate, 
and more or less angular or sinuate-toothed. Ten- 
Corolla scarcely twice the size of the calyx. Berry globular, waite or red, 
M lin. diameter. Seeds with a very thick transversely- en ed Ce 
M faces convex or conical within the border.— Wight, Le 500; 
Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 4. xii. 139, with the synonyms wee dias 
= F. Muell in Hook. Kew Journ. viii. 51 (from the character 
: N. Australia, S ir Charles Hardy’s Island, Henne ; Port — siis td 
i land. Broad Sou nd, R. Brown; N.E. coast, A. Cunningha Burdekin 
uet, P. Mueller ; ead um Bowman ; Ces Thozet, Dallachy Brisbane 
HS Bay, 
Man as ugang river, Beċkler ; Clarence SC sn ea, Go 
140, ispersed over tropical Asia and Africa. 
and ay wii. 193, Perse this species, with 1 or 2 closely lied < ones pm ror 
