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of female flower solitary, longer that the leaf-petiole. Fruit oblong, 

 glabions, white, ^-'TS in. long. Seeds ovate, attenuate at the base. 

 Ser. ill DC. Prodr. Ill, 313 ; Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat., Ser. 4, XVI, 169 

 t. 2 ; Hance Siippl, Hongkong Flora, 101'; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 

 Beng. XLVI, Pt. II, 105 ; Clarke in Hook. fil. Flor. Br. Ind. II, 626. 

 Bryonia geminata^ Blunie Bijd. 924; Ser. in DC. Prodr. Ill, 305; 

 Roem. Syn., fasc. II, 35 ; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I, Pt. I, 659. B. tenella, 

 Roxb. Flor. Ind. Ill, 725. Aechmandra indica, Arn. in Hook. Journ. 

 Bob. Ill, 274; Wight in Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. VIII, 267 ; Miq. 

 Flor. Ind. Bat. I, Pt. I, 658. 



Selangore ; King's Collector i\60. Distrib. British India, Cochin- 

 China, Philippines, Hongkong. 



3. Mklothria marginata, Cogn. in DC. Mon. Phan. III. 593, 

 Stem creeping, rooting at the nodes, angular, sulcate, glabrous ; the 

 tendrils slender, simple, puberulous. Leaves ovate-cordate or more or 

 less 3-lobed, acute ; the edges minutely and distantly denticulate ; 

 the upper suiface coarsely and distinctly and the lower minutely and 

 more closely strigose, the nerves on both pubescent ; length l-r25 in., 

 breadth 1-1 '75 in. ; petiole "75-1 '5 in., tomentose. Male flowers umbellate 

 on a filiform few-flowered peduncle shorter than the petiole, glabrous ; 

 tiie pedicels erect, •2-3 in. long ; the calyx broadly campanulate, pubes- 

 cent, its teeth subulate. Petals villose, yellow ; anthers glabrous, in- 

 appendiculate. ^ew?aZe^oi(;er solitary on a peduncle *5 in. long. Fruit 

 narrowly cylindric, beaked, tapering to the base, velvety, '75 in. long, 

 its peduncle filiform ; seeds 6-8, foveolate. Bryonia marginata, Blume 

 Bijdr. 924; Ser. in DC. Prodr. Ill, 305 ; Roem. Syn., fasc. II, p. 36; 

 Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I, Pt. II, 660. B. epigsea, Blume Bijdr. 924; Ser. in 

 DC. Prodr. Ill, 306. Aechmandra Bliimeana, Roem. Syn. fasc. II, p. 33 ; 

 Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I, Pt. II, 657. Melothria Bumphiana, Scheff. Ann. 

 Jard. Bot. Buitenz. I, 25. Cerasiocarpum ? Maingayi, Clarke in Hook, 

 fil. Flor. Br. Ind. Ill, 629. 



Malacca; Maingay (Kew Distvih.) 1268. Perak ; King's Collector 

 874. Distrib. Java and Sumatra. 



Var. heterophylla, Cogn. in DC. Mon. Phan. Ill, 594. Leaves quite 

 entire, ovate-cordate or oblong-sub-hastate, scabrous above, almost smooth 

 beneath, but hairy on the nerves. Bryonia heterophylla, Blume Bijdr. 

 925 ; Wall. Cat. 6701. ; Roem. Syn., fasc. II, 35. B. Blumei, Ser. in DC. 

 Prodr. Ill, 305 ; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I, Pt. I, 659. Cerasiocarpum ? 

 penangense, Clarke in Hook. fil. Flor. Br. Ind. Ill, 629. 



Penang; Wallich ; Curtis \^'2S, Distrib. Java. 



NOTE. 

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