- Melothria.] LIV. CUCURBITACEA,. 321 
- in Trans. Phil. Soc. Vict. i. 17 ; Cucumis? Muelleri, Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat. 
- Br. 4, xi. 84; Zehneria micrantha, F. Muell. Fragm. i. 182, and Pl. Viet. 
t18; Mukia micrantha, F. Muell. Fragm. ii. 180; iii. 107. 
= N.S. Wales. Hunters River, Bauer (in Herb. R. Br.) ; Darling desert, Dallachy 
. M Goodwin, q 
i Victoria. Murray river, F. Mueller. 
8. MUKIA, Am. 
-. or S-lobed sti i 
x gma. Fruit a globular berry. Seeds few, compressed, 
| ‘obiculate.—Scabrous-hispid annuals, with the habit of Cucumis. Leaves 
1 E HE rarely lobed. Flowers small, yellow, the males clustered and 
| llate, the females solitary and sessile or nearly so 
map be galt Australian species, which is wi ical Asia and Africa, there 
Maybe a second ° ee which is widely spread over tropical Asia an ca, 
: ing: Scabrous-hispid, Leavés shortly petiolate, deeply cordate, from 
: ore or less hastate with broad 
ng. 
leq N.W. coast, Bynoe ; Nichol Bay, Gregory's Expedition (with deeply 
bes "Jl. Upper Victoria river and Gulf of Carpentaria, F. Mueller; Port 
sg ^ Keppel and Shoalwater Bays and Northumberland. islands, R. Brown ; 
a) Gilbert rivers, F. Mueller E Pot Curti Lizard Island, M'Gillivray ; 
` Cunningham ; Rockingham Bay, Da/lachy, Thozet. 
9. SICYOS, Linn. 
ds. Into 5 ovate lobes. Stamens in the males united in a c 
‘Yor, SH at the top and more or less lobed, with 3 to 5 linear curved and 
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