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Bryonia tenuis, Klotzsch, iii " Peters, Reise Mossamb. 

 Bot. p. loO." 



Bryonia variegata, Mill. *' Gard. Dict. ed. 8, u. ~j "; 

 Ser. iQ DC. Prodr. III, p. 808 ; '' M. Po3m. Syn. Pepon. 

 p. 39." 



Coccmia palmata, Eoem. " Syn. Pepon. p. 93." 

 Oucumis verrucosus, Herb. Kottl. ex Clarke, in Hook. f. 

 Fl. Brit. Ind. II, p. 623. 



Insula Utchina {Tashiro ! April. 1887, frf.). 

 Akchipelago Yema : insula Yunakuni ad niontem Ura- 

 bu-daki (.S'. Tanakal u. 397, 13 Junio 1891, frf.). 



DiSTRiB. Formosa, Malaya, India, Ceylon, tropical 

 Africa, Mauritius and Australia. 



Leaves scabrous and white-punctuate above, smooth below, 

 broad, 5-8 cm. long, 6-9 cm. wide, pahnately 5-fid, lobes ovate 

 or ovate-lanceolate, slightly sinuate-toothed, teeth mucrouate ; 

 petiole 4-6 cm. long, or often longer than tlie himina, glabrous 

 or sometimes muricate. Tendrils 2-branched, one branch being 

 often smaller. " Flowers yellow " [Tashiro in msc). Fruit 

 baccate, globuhar, smooth, *' bright red -with white vertical stripes " 

 {Tashiro in msc. and S. Tanaka in sched.), about 2 cm. diameter. 

 Seeds obovoid, with a thickened corrugate margin, the faces 

 conical with protuberances, 7 mm. long, 4 mm. wide, 4h mm. 

 thick. 



Mukia, Arn. 



M. SCabrella, Arn. in " Hook. Journ. Bot. IH (1841) p. 

 276 "; Walp. Eepert. II, p. 199 ; " M. Eojm. Syn. Pepon. p. 

 47 "; *' Wight, IUustr. Ind. Bot. t. 105 bis "; " Naud. in Ann. 



