634 LXii. crcDRniTACio.f:. 



late ; lobes 5, subulate. Corolla campanulate, o-partite ; segments ovate. 

 Stamens 3, free, inserted on the calyx-tube ; filaments short ; anthers 

 cohering, one l-celled, the others 2-celled ; cells flexuose round the 

 broad connective, which is not produced at the apex. Pollen muricu- 

 late. Eudiraentarj' ovary 0. Female flowers : Calyx and corolla as 

 in the male. Staminodes 3, small. Ovary globose or ovoid, 3-placenti- 

 ferous ; ovules numerous, horizontal ; style slender ; stigmas 3, papillose, 

 deeply 2-lobed. Fruit baccate, spherical or ovoid-conical, pulpy, many- 

 seeded. Seeds subpyriforin, very turgid, sin-rounded by a very thick 

 grooved crenulate ring, on each side of which tlie tumid faces of the 

 seed project. — Distbib. S. Asia, Indian and Pacific Islands, Australia ; 

 species 2. 



1. Bryonopsis laciniosa, Naud. in Ann. Sci. Nat. ser. 4, v. 18 

 (1802) p. 194. Stems much branched, slender, grooved, glabrous. 

 Tendrils slender, striate, glabrous, 2-fid. Leaves membranous, 4-6 in. 

 long and about as broad, green and scabrid above, paler and smooth 

 or nearly so beneath, deeply cordate at the base, 5-lobed, the lobes 

 oblong-lanceolate (the middle sometimes reaching 4 in. long), the 

 margins sinuate, distantly denticulate, sometimes subserrate ; petioles 

 1-3 in. long, striate, slender. Male flowers in small fascicles 

 of 3-6 ; peduncles i-| in. long, filiform, glabrous. Calyx glabrous, 

 -^ in. long ; teeth subulate, less than -^ in. long. Corolla g-^in. long ; 

 segments ovate- oblong, acute, pubescent. Female flowers solitary, or 

 few, or many ; peduncles shorter than in the male. Fruit subsessile, 

 ^-1 in. in diam., globose, smooth, bluish-green streaked with broad 

 vertical lines. Seeds i-5 in. long, yellowish-brown. Hook. f. in Oliv. 

 Fl. Trop. Afr. v. 2, p. 556 ; Cogniaux, in DC. Monogr. Phan. v. 3, 

 p. 477. Bryonia laciniosa, Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) p. 1013; C. B. Clarke, 

 in Hook. f. Fl. B. I. v. 2, p. 622 ; Grab. Cat. p. 78 ; Dalz. & Gibs, 

 p. 101 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 2, p. 254 ; Wight, Icon. t. 500 ; Woodr. in 

 Journ. Bomb. Nat. v.' 11 (1898) p. 640; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 1, 

 p. 542. — Flowers : Aug.-Sept. VEBif. Sivalingi ; Kavdodi. 



Common in hedges, Graham, Dalzell cf- Gibson. Deccan : Poena, Woodroivl 

 S. M. CouNTuy : Belgaum, Ritchie, 314!— Distrib. Throughout India; Ceylon, 

 Malaya, Mauritius, Tropical Africa, Australia. 



5. CUCUMIS, Linn. 

 Annual herbs wdth a perennial root, climbing or trailing, hispid ox* 

 scabrous. Tendrils simple, sometimes straight and spinescent. Leaves 

 entire or palmately 3-7-lobed or 5-angled. Flowers yellow, monoecious. 

 Male flowers fascicled (rarely solitary). Calyx-tube turbinate or 

 campanulate ; lobes 5. Corolla subcampanulate, deeply 5-lobed or 

 5-partite. Stamens 3, free ; filaments short ; anthers free, oblong, one 

 l-celled, the others 2-celled, the cells linear, straight, curved or flexuose, 

 the connective produced above into a papillose appendage. Pollen 

 smooth. Eudimentary ovary glanduliform. Female flowers solitary. 

 Calyx and corolla as in the male. Eudimentary stamens 0. Ovary 

 ovoid or globose, 3-5-placentiferous ; ovules co , horizontal ; style short; 

 stigmas 3, obtuse. Fruit fleshy or corky, globose or cyhndric, terete or 

 obtusely 4-angled, smooth or echinate, iudehiscent, or 3-valved and tardiljr 



