510 lA'ii. cucrnniTACET:. 



Gibs. p. 100 ; Aitch. Pb. & Sind Vl p. (!4 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 2, p. 2o4 ; 

 Woodr. ill Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1898) p. 640 ; W.-itt, Diet. Eeoii. 

 Prod. V. 5, p. 287. Bryo-nia scalrella, Liuii. f. Suppl. p. 424 ; Grab. Cat. 

 p. 78 ; Wigbt, Icon. t. 501. Cucumis niaderaspatanus, Linn. Sp. PI. 

 (1753) p. 1012. — Flowers: July. Veen. Chirdti. 



Very common in hedges, Dalzell cf Gibson. Konkan : common about Bombay 

 in the rains, Graham. Dectan : common, Cookel, Woodrowl; Kolapur, Cookel; 

 Hotgi, Woudrow : Honibal, JVondrorv '. ; hills near Poona, Woodrow. 8. M. Country: 

 Belgaum, Ritchie, .'iKJI; Badami, C'nokel Gujarat: Dakor, Woodrow. Si.nd: 

 Stocks. — DiSTKiB. Throiigliout India; Cejlon, Africa, Malaya, Australia. 



3. Melothria perpusilla, Corjniaux\ in DC. Monogr. Phan. v. 3 

 (1881) p. (307. Moncccious, climbing ; root an oblong flattened tuber ; 

 stems deeply striate, glabrous. Tendrils simple, striate, glabrous. Leaves 

 broadly ovate in outline, IJ-Sj in. long and as broad or sometimes broader 

 than long, acute or shortly acuminate and mucronate at the apex, usually 5- 

 angled, the angles at the base rounded, tbe margins distantly toothed, the 

 upper side usually rough with scabrous spots, the lower side smooth and 

 prominently veined, base subcordate or nearly truncate ; petioles |-1 in. 

 long. Male flowers 3-10 at the apex of a peduncle, |-1| in. long, 

 capitate or in subumbellate racemes ; pedicels short, filifovm. Calyx- 

 tube yjy-yV ^^' ^^"g' campanulate, rounded at the base ; teeth very 

 short, recurved. Corolla pale-yellow ; segments | in. long, ovate- 

 oblong, subacute, slightly hairy within the throat. Filaments hairy. 

 Female flowers solitary or rarely subumbellate ; peduncles |— g- in. 

 long, in the same axils as the males. Ovary globose. Fruit smooth, 

 globose, minutely pitted, red when ripe, f,-^ in. in diam. Seeds many, 

 yiuch flattened, smooth. Jackson, in Index Kew. v. 3, p. 203. Bryonia 

 perpusilla, Blume. Bijdr. p. 926. Zehneria HooheviaHa, Arn. in Hook. 

 Journ. Bot. v. 3 (1841) p. 275 ; C. B. Clarke, in Hook. f. Fl. B. I. v. 2, 

 p. 624 (exclud. svn.) ; Trim. Fl. Cevl. v. 2, p. 256. Bryonia maysorensis, 

 Wight, Icon. t. 758 {not of WalL); Dalz. & Gibs. p. 101. Zehneria 

 Baueriana, Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Xat. v. 11 (1898) p. 640. — • 

 Flowers : June-Xov. Vern. Vardli. 



KoNKAN : Stocks !, Law ! ; Wari country, Dalzell cf" Gibson ; Ambeghat, Woodrow ! ; 

 Mahableshwar, abundant, Cooke I, Woodrotv !, H. M. Birdwood. — Distrib. India 

 (N. Bengal, Sikkim, Assam, Kiiasia, W. Peninsula) ; Ceylon, Malaya, Africa. 



4, Melothria heterophylla, Coyniav.r, in DO. Monogr. Phan. 

 V, 3 (1881) p. 6l8. Uicjecious ; root perennial, consisting of several 

 tubers ; stems slender, branched, furrowed, glabrous. Tendrils simple. 

 Leaves 3-6 in. long, polymorphous, regularly ovate, or 3-o-angled or 

 lobed, or hastate, acute or acuminate, usually cordate at the base, 

 generally scabrid and pale-greon above, paler or cinereous and reticu- 

 iately veined beneath, margins remotely denticulate ; petioles ^-g in. 

 long, pubescent. Male flowers suliumbellate, 15-20 on a peduncle 

 ^-| in. long ; pedicels filiform, ^-j in. long. Calyx glabrous ; tube 

 campanulate, rounded at the base, \-\ in, long ; teeth minute, subulate. 

 Corolla small, yellouisli-white ; segments triangular, acute, -^ in. long. 

 Filaments slender, subglabrous, ^ in. long. Female flowers : 

 Peduncles solitary, ^-g in. long. Ovary narrowly oblong, glabrous 

 or more or less pubescent, 10-ribbed. Fruit I2-2 in. long, oblong-ovoid, 

 .tylindric, tapering towards the apex, ribbed, bright red when ripe. 



