320 LIV. CUCURBITACEZ. [Bryonia. 
varieties) as the ab tioned genus Bryonopsis. This name was originally proposed by — 
referred to Zehnerta and other groups, and is now ` ` 
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by moneecious not dicecious flowers, the clustered not racemose inflorescence, and 
not simple tendrils. But one of our European true Bryonias is moncecious, the clusters of 
. lacini thing but short racemes, and the brauched tendrils, although 
not constant, and the genus rests solely on the seed, which appears to me to 
.better sectional than generic character. 
7. MELOTHRIA, Linn. 
general, are 
be a much 
Fruit a small globular ovoid or fusiform berry. eds flat, oval or oblong, 
. enveloped in —Slender climbing or prostrate herbs. Leaves triangular 
or palmately lobed. Tendrils simple. owers very sim ales 
The genus is dispersed over the tropical and subtropical regious of the New and the Old 
World, most abundant in Africa. The Australian species are both endemic. : 
oad] rian . Male flowers in a pedunculate : » 
umbel-like raceme. Females on long filiform pedicels. . . . 1. M. Cunningham. 
Leaves palmately 5- or 7-lobed. emale flowers minute, : 
clustered in the same axils on filiform but rather short pedicels . 2. M. Mueller. 
l. MO ) St 
often filiform. Leaves broadly triangular or hastate, irregularly but 
deeply toothed, or rarely obscurely 3- or 5-lobed, thin and somewhat scabrous, 
the larger ones nearly 3 in. long, but mostly smaller. Tendrils simple, fili 
form. Male peduncles slender, bearing at the end a short corymbose fe 
neck. Stigmas capitate. Berry globular, 3 to 4 lines diameter.— 
Cunninghamii, F. Muell. in Hook. Kew Journ. viii. 51. 
. alia. Arnhem N. Bay, R. Brown. o 
eensland. Brisbane river, Moreton Bay, F. Mueller ;. Breakfast Creek, Bom 
Rockhampton, Dallachy. i 
N. S. Wales. Paramatta, Woolls ; Clarence river, Becker. gere 
i j is, Benth. The warten Pe SE 
R. Brown, have the leaves b oadly cordate, the flowers rather longer 
fruits rather larger, almost ovoid, but they appear to belong to the same species. 
2 in. diameter, shortly and palmately 5- to 7-lobed, the lobes mostly í -€ 
eoarsely toothed or lobed. "Tendrils small, filiform, simple. gees" the 
on filiform pedicels of 2 to 3 lines, the males and females clustered 1 Ge 
