544 LXIT. CLX'URBITACE.'i;. 



turnip-shaped ; stems slender, grooved, '/.igzag, glivhrous. Tendrils 

 simple, slender, glabrous. Leaves suborbicular in outline, |-3 in. long, 

 usually a little broader than long, light-green above, pnler beneath, 

 shortly roughly hairy on bo^li surfaces, deeply cordate at the base, 

 angietl or more or less deeply 3-5-lobed, the lobes usually lobulate and 

 obtuse, sometimes apiculate, more or less irregularly dentate on the 

 margins; petioles | -1| in. long, glabrous. Male flowers small, 

 5-l.T at the apex of a straight stiff glabrous peduncle ^o~'^2 i"- ^^"S • 

 pedicels filiform, yt~tV i'l- If^'ig* Calyx slightly hairy ; tube -^ in. long, 

 slightly rounded at ihe base ; teeth minute, erect, distant, subulate. 

 Corolla greenish-yellow ; segments Jj in. long. Anthers yellow ; 

 connective green, produced beyond the cells, bifid. Female flowers 

 usually solitary ; peduncles short, stout, glabrous. Fruit stalked, |-1 in. 

 long (including the beak), ellipsoid or ovoid, suddenly contracted into a 

 slender beak \ in. long, scarlet in the middle, the base and beak green, 

 eircumscissilely dehiscent at the junction of the green and red portions 

 near the base. Seeds 6-9, in orange-colored pulp, pyriform, g-^ by 

 Yo-jQ in., turgid, brown, with a whitish corded margin. Trim. Fl. Ceyl. 

 v.^ 2, p. 258; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1898) p. 641. 

 Bryonia epiricea., Wight, Icon. fc. 503. ^Echmandra epigcea, Arn. in Hook. 

 Journ. Bot. v. 3 (1841) p. 274; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 100.— Flowers : June- 

 Aug. A'^ERN. Karvina ; Karmugli. 



Deccan : jDahell 4~ Gibso7i; Poona, Woodrowl Gujarat: Dalzdl, 40! S. M. 

 Country: Eadatni, jB^/(w ! ; Karlimatti, Coo'ke\\ Kakti hills near Belgaura, Ritchie, 

 1070! SiND : DalzcU, 40 !— Distrib. India (Panjab, Sind, Gujarat, W. Peninsula); 

 Ceylon. 



2. Corallocarpus conocarpus, C. B. Clarl-e, in Ilooh. f. Fl. B. I. 

 V. 2 (187!*) p. 028. Climbing, monoscious ; stems slender, striate, 

 glabrous. Tendrils simple, slender, glabrous. Leaves 2-2| by l^-^g in., 

 pale -green above, ash -colored beneath, both surfaces and especially 

 the lower clothed with minute white hairs (scarcely scabrid), cordate 

 at the base, deeply palmately 3-5-lobed, the lobes oblong-lanceolale, 

 acute or acuminate, the terminal lobe the longest much contracted at 

 the base; petioles J-I5 in. long, slender, rugulose. Male flowers 

 6-15 at the apex of a slender glabrous peduncle g-l:; in. long ; pedicels 

 filiform, yV^yV ^^^' long. Female flowers f.iscicled or subspicate. 

 Fruit glabrous or slightly pubescent, sessile, fascicled or sometimes sub- 

 spicate, conical-oblong, not suddi^nly contracted into the beak, orange- 

 red except the cup-shaped base which remains green. Seeds pyriform, 

 turgid, g-^ by yV^To ^^'^ dark-brown (nearly black), not margined. 

 Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1898) p. 641. ^ehmandra ceno- 

 carpa, Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. p. 100. — Flowers; June-Aug. 



Rare. Gujarat: Dahell (in Herb. Kew,), 39 ! ; Malpor and Gundar, Bahell 1^ 

 Gibson. There is a single specimen from Herb. Stocks at Kew without locality. 



3. Corallocarpus velutinus, Benih. Sf Hool\ f. Gen, PL v. 1 

 (1862-67) p. 831. A stout climber; root fibrous; stems stout, angular, 

 hairy, deeply grooved, not much branched. Tendrils very long, striate, 

 simple. Leaves fleshy, suborbicular in outline, 2-3 in. long and as 

 broad as long, pale-green and at first softly villous, finally scabrid above, 

 tonientose and ashy-grey beneath, cordate or subtruncate at the base, 

 deeply palmately 3-5-lobed, the lobes rounded or oblong, sometimes 



