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long, red, at first marked with white streaks. Kutrund, dilori, 

 tondli, bimbi. 



Very common, especially in Guzerat, the N". Konkan, and Cutch. 

 The fruit is eatable. 



7. BBYONIA. 



JB. laciniosa. A pretty climber, leaves 3 or 5-lobed, petioles 

 long, sometimes warty, flowers yellowish-green, males stalked, 

 females nearly sessile, fruit smooth, size of a gooseberry, at first 

 green with white streaks, afterwards dull red. Sivlinga, popti, 

 Kandori. 



Deccan, Konkan, Guzerat, and Cutch. 



B. dioica is the well-known green-flowered bryony of English 

 hedges. Darwin's descriptions of its tendrils would no doubt apply 

 to many other plants. " I have gone out to watch the bryony on 

 an exposed hedge, as the branches were tossed to and fro by the 

 wind. Unless the tendrils had been exceedingly elastic they would 

 have been torn off, and the plant thrown prostrate. As it was it 

 safely rode out the gale, like a ship with two anchors down, and with 

 a long range of cable ahead to serve as a spring as she surges to 

 the storm." 



8. MUKTA. 



M. scabrella. Twining, very rough all over, leaves cordate, 

 lobed or angled, flowers very small, sessile, yellow, berry like 

 a scarlet pea. Chirdti. 



Yery common and pretty ; with Corallocarpus this is probably the 

 smallest species of the order in W. India. 



9. ZEHNERIA. 



Z. umbellata. (Bryonia u. T).). Smooth or nearly so, 

 leaves cordate and sagittate at first, afterwards various, flowers 

 very small, the corolla scarcely exceeding the calyx ; fruit oval, 

 red, size of a pigeon's egg. Gometta. 



Common in hedges. Very common throughout India (#.). * Z. 

 baueriana (Bryonia Mysorensis, D,), seems to be much like the last, 

 but the male and female flowers frequently in the same axils, and 

 the fruit much smaller. Wardli. Wari country (D.), Mahableshwar, 

 Dr. Coofce. 



10. CORALLOCARPUS. 



G. epigeia (^Echmandra e. D.). Twining, rather fleshy, 

 greyish or glaucous, leaves deeply lobed, toothed, petioles very 

 thick, flowers few together, yellowish-green, calyx nearly as 

 large as the corolla, fruit stalked, beaked, orange or scarlet 

 with green base. Kadoindi, Kaninai. 



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