Bryonia.~\ LXV. CUCURBITACE.E. (C. B. Clarke.) 623 



sessile often 2-3 together, seeds ovoid with a thickened corrugate margin often 

 with large protuberances on the faces. Roxb. Hort. Beng. 104 ; FL Ind. iii. 

 728; Blume Bijd. 927; Watt. Cat. 6699; Wight Ic. t. 500; W. $ A. Prodr. 

 845 ; Miq. FL Ind. Sat. i. pt. i. 660 ; Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. FL 101 ; Kurz in 

 Journ. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 104. Bryonopsis courtallensis, Arn. in Hook. Journ. 

 Bot. iii. 274. B. erythrocarpa, Naud. in Ann. So. Nat. ser. 4, xviii. 194. 

 B. laciniosa, Hook. f. in Oliv. FL Trop. Afr. ii. 556. Oucumis verrucosus, 

 Herb. Eottler. 



From the HIMALAYA to CEYLON. PEGU ; Kurz. DISTRIB. Trop. Africa, Mauritius, 

 Malaya, Australia. 



Stems angular, slender, usually glabrous or nearly so. Leaves often scabrous, 

 punctate above, lobes 2-3 in., with a broad or narrow sinus ; petiole often longer 

 than the blade, sometimes muricate near the apex. Male pedicels less than 1 in., 

 usually glabrous, female still shorter. Calyx-teeth subulate. Fruit in. diam., green 

 with white vertical stripes. Seeds 5 in. 



15. IVXUK.IA, Am. 



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Scabrous climoing herbs ; tendrils simple.. Leaves 3-7-angular, not deeply 

 lobed, cordate, petioled and subsessile on the same plant. Flowers small, yel- 

 low/ males and females clustered in the same axils ; males very short-peduucled, 

 females subsessile. MALE: calyx carnpanulate, teeth 5, subulate; corolla 5- 

 partite ; stamens 3, inserted low in the calyx-tube, anthers free, two 2-celled 

 one 1-celled; cells* straight, connective not produced. FEMALE: calyx and 

 corolla as in the male ; disk annular ; ovary ovoid, hispid ; style thick, apex 

 3-2-lobed ; ovules not very many, horizontal ; placentas 3-2. Berry globose, 

 small, indehiscent. Seeds not very many, ovoid, compressed, strongly margined, 

 faces rough or smooth. DISTKIB. Species 2; one South Indian; the other 

 African, Asiatic, and Australian. 



1. IK. scabrella, Arn. in Hook. Journ. Bot. iii. 276; very scabrous, 

 leaves rough hispid beneath, seeds rough on their faces. Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat. 

 ser. 4, xii. 142; Dalz. 8f Gibs. Bomb. FL 100. M. maderaspatana, Kurz 



in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii^ 104. Bryonia scabrella, Linn. f. Suppl. 424 ; 

 DC. Prodr. iii. 306 ; Wall. Cat. 6708 ; W. $ A. Prodr. 305 ; Wight Ic. t. 501 : 

 Roxb. FL Ind. iii. 724 ; Miq. FL Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 658. B. Wightiana, Wall. 

 Cat. 6703. B. maderaspatana and althaeoides, DC. I. c. 306. Cucumis made- 

 raspatanus, Linn. Sp. PL 1438. Karivia javanica, Miq. 1. c. 661. Tricho- 

 santhes dioica, Wall Cat. 6692 C. 



Throughout INDIA, common : ascending the hills as far as subtropical warmth 

 extends. DISTRIB. Africa, Malaya, Australia. 



Stem angular, slender, hispid or scabrid. Leaves 1-3 in., serrate ; petiole often very 

 short, sometimes 1 in. or more. Flowers ^-^ in. diam. Ovary very hispid. Fruit 

 f-^ in. diam., bright red. 



VAR. oracilis leaves 4|- by 2^ in. hastate elongate very acute wide at the base 

 long-petioled nearly entire. Bryonia gracilis, Wall. Cat. 6714. Pagamew (BCRMA); 

 Wallich. Possibly a distinct species. 



2. IK. leiosperma, Thwaites Enum. 125 ; scabrous, leaves hispid beneath 

 and with much long soft hair, seeds smooth on their faces. Bryonia leio- 

 sperma, W. Sf A. Prodr. 345. B. mysorensis, Miq. in Herb. Hohenack. 



DECCAN PENINSULA; Pulney Mts., Wight. Nilghiris, G. Thomson, Hohenacker. 

 CEYLON ; alt. 4000-5000 ft., Thwaites. 



