558 lxiv. CUCURBITACE.E (hooker). [Ctenolepis. 



Staminodes 0. Ovary ovoid ; style columnar, without a basal disk, 

 stigmas 2-3 ; ovules few, on 2-3 placentas. Fruit rather fleshy, small, 

 subglobose or obliquely quadrate. Seeds few or many, ovoid, much 

 compressed or boat-shaped, margins obtuse or acute; testa smooth. 

 — Prostrate, rarely climbing 1 , annual, scabrid, tropical and subtropical 

 Asiatic and African herbs. Leaves digitately 5-7-lobed or -partite. 

 Tendrils undivided. Bracts stipuliform in the axils of the leaves, 

 toothed or pectinate. Flowers minute. 



1. C. cerasiformis, Hook.f.; Navd. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 5, vi. 13. 

 Stem extensively climbing-, much branched, very slender, grooved and 

 angled, slightly scabrid. Leaves 3-4 in. broad, membranous, scabrid 

 on both surfaces, lobes 3, rarely 5, lanceolate, very narrow at the base, 

 sinuate-toothed, the middle are often 3-lobed, teeth apiculate ; petioles 

 stout, scabrid. Stipuliform bracts orbicular renifoim or dimidiate, 

 \-\ in. long, cilia as long as the bract is broad. Male fl. : Peduncle 

 2 in. long, flowers very minute, in a short crowded raceme, pedicels 

 short, slender, spreading. Berry sessile, -J- in. diameter, 2-seeded, red. 

 Seeds ^ in. long, oblong-ovate, very concave above and convex below, 

 edge sharp ; testa smooth, dark brown. — Zehneria cerasiformis, Stocks in 

 Hook. Kew Journ. Bot. iv. 149. Bryonia Jimbristipula, Fenzl in Kotschy 

 PI. Nub. No. 205. 



Nile Land. Nubia, Kotschy! Gallabat, Schu-einfurth ! 

 Mozamb. Distr. Between Tette and the coast, Dr. Kirk! 

 Also a native of Sind and Guzerat. 



28. ZEHNERIA, Endl. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, i. 830. 



Flowers usually dioecious, all fascicled racemose or cymose. Male fl. : 

 Calyx tubular or campanulate, 5-toothed or -lobed. Corolla rotate, 

 5-partite, villous within. Filaments 3, rarely 4-5, inserted in the tube 

 or base of the calyx, stout or slender, often villous ; anthers orbicular, 

 one 1-celled, two 2-celled or all 1-celled, hairy at the back and sides, 

 cells curved, connective not produced. Rudiment of ovary 3-lobed. 

 Female fl. : Staminodes 3, linear. Ovary ovoid or subglobose ; style 

 inserted on a thick annular disk; stigma 3-lobed or stigmas 3; ovules 

 numerous, on 3 placentas. Berry usually globose. Seeds few or many, 

 obovate, flattened or tumid, usually smooth and margined, rarely tu- 

 bercled. — Slender glabrous scabrid or tomentose scandent or prostrate 

 tropical perennial-rooted herbs. Leaves angled or toothed, often mem- 

 branous. Tendrils simple. Flowers small, white or yellow. Fruit 

 shortly peduncled, small. The stems and branches, which are inva- 

 riably angled and grooved when dry, are possibly terete when fresh. 



Male flowers fascicled in the axils of the leaves. 



Leaves scaberulous above, glabrous beneath. Seeds & in. long, * 



broadly obovate, border thickened 1. Z. angolensis. 



Leaves scabrid or pubescent. Seeds lenticular, £ in. long, border 



slightly thickened 2. Z. scrobiculata. 





