i,\ii. cLCLituiT.vcK.t:. 543 



1 . Kedrostis rostrata, Co/piicni.v, in DC. AL),i<r/r. Ph in. v. 3 (1881) 

 p. G;jO. tSraudeiit, uioiHucioiis ; stems sleiuler, branched, angled, sparsely 

 liairy. Tendrils simple, liliform, glabrous. Leaves |-2 in. loiij^ and as 

 broad as long, nieinbraiioiis, orbicular in outline, brigbl-pjreen, hairy and 

 n^ore or less scabrid on both sides, margins (Mitire or distantly toothed, 

 cordate at the base, sometimes 5-angled or sublobate, the lobes subacute, 

 apiculate ; petioles 2'^h '"• 'o"o5 hairy. Malf, laowERS : Peduncles 

 fiiit'orm, ^-| in. long, 2-4-flo\vered at the apex ; pedicels capillar^', 

 ,\-| in. long, usually bracteolate at the base. Calyx hairy ; tube cam- 

 panulate, rounded at the base; teeth minute. Cijrolla pale-yellow; 

 segments oblong-lanceolate, acute, ^— ^ in. long, pubescent. Eemalk 

 FLOWERS : Peduncles y^-\ in. long. Ovary oblong, lieaked, pubescent. 

 Fruit subsessile, deep-red, about 1 in. long, ovoid, tapez'ing into a long 

 narrow beak, pubescent. Seeds -^ in. long, ovoid, witli a narrow sharp 

 wing, brown. Jackson, in Index Kew. v. 3, p. 4. liJuj achocarjHi 

 rostrata, Naud. in Ann. Sci. Nat. se'r. 4, v. 10, p. 177 ; Kurz, in Journ. 

 As. Soc. Eeng. (1877) part 2, p. 105 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 2, p. 253. 

 llhijnchocarpa fuetida., C. B. Clarke, in Hook. £. El. B. i, v. 2, p. 627 

 (partly); AV'oodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1898) p. Gil) : Watt, 

 l3ict. Econ. Prod. v. 0, part 1, p. 502. jEchmandra rostrata, Arn. in 

 Hook. Journ. Bot. v. 3 (1841) p. 274 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 100. Bri/onia 

 2>ihsa, lioxb. Hort. Beng. p. 104 ; Grab. Cat. p. 248. — Flowers: Sept.- 

 Nov. Vebn. JVurakvel. 



KoNKAN : S. Konkan, Nimmo ex Grnham; Mirarlonger near Pen, KanUknr\ 

 GcjAKAT : common in hedges, Dalzell (S,- Gibson, I)al~eU, 38 ! S. M. Countky : Pad- 

 sbapur (Belgaum districts), Eitchie, 1701 ! — Distuib. India (VV. Peninsula, Ava) ; 

 Oeylon. 



11. C OR ALLO CARPUS, Welw. 



Prostrate or climbing herbs. Tendrils simple. Leaves roundish or 

 cordate, lobed or palmate. Flowers minute, monoecious. Male 

 FLOWERS crowded at the apex of a long peduncle. Calyx-tube broadly 

 campanulate; lobes 5, short. Corolla 5-partite ; segments ovate-oblong. 

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

 anthers glabrous, entire or 2-partite, one 1-celled, the others 2-celled, 

 the cells sti'aight, the connective produced or not, often bifid, lludi- 

 mentary ovary or minute. Female floavers sessile or shortly pedi- 

 celled, solitary or fascicled, sorae-times sub^picate. Calyx and corolla as 

 in the male. Eudimentary stamens or minute. Ovary ovoid, beaked, 

 2-3-celled ; ovules few, horizontal ; style straight, without a basal disk ; 

 stigma 3- (rarely 2-4-) lobed. Berry tles'iy, ovoid or ellipsoid, rostrate 

 or obtuse, operculately dehiscent near the base. Seeds few, obovoid or 

 subglobose, tumid. — IJistkig. India and Tropical Africa ; species 15. 



Seeds obovoid or pyriform, slightly attenuated at the base ; steins 

 slender. 



Female flowers usually solitary ; seeds margined 1. C.epigceus. 



Females flowers usually fascicled or subspicate ; seeds not 



margined 2. C. conocarpus. 



Seeds globose or subglobose, not attenuated at the base ; steins 



stout 3. C. vcluiinus. 



1. Corallocarpus epigseus, C. B. Clarice, in Rook. f. Fl. B. I. 

 V. 2 (1879) p. 028. Prostrate or climbing, monoecious; root large, 



