Zehneria.'] LXV. CUCURBITACE^}. (C. B. Clarke.) 625 



Very near Z. Baueriana and possibly not distinct : but the ovary is globose even 

 before the expansion of the flower. The leaves are also generally asperous above and 

 sometimes much more hairy beneath than in any undoubted examples of Z. Bauer- 

 iana. The African distribution of this cannot be defined, as Z. scrobiculata and even 

 Pilogyne lueida, Natid. can hardly be distinguished from it. 



3. Z. umbellata, Thwaitex Enum. 125; leaves cordate or hastate 

 rounded angled lobed or 3-5-partite nearly to the base, petiole usually shorter 

 than the auricles, fruit f-l in. smooth or shortly silky cylindric not rugose, 

 seeds few obovoid only slightly compressed margin obscure rounded faces quite 

 smooth or slightly rough. Kurz in Joum. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 105. Z. hastata 

 and connivens, Miq. FL Ind. Sat. i. pt. i. 656. Karivia umbellata, Am. in Hook. 

 Joum. Bot. iii. 275; Miq. 1. c. 661. K. Rheedii, Roem. ; Miq. I. c. 661. Momor- 

 dica umbellata, Roxb. FL Ind. iii. 710. Bryonia umbellata, Klein-, DC, Prodr. 

 iii. 305 ; Wall. Cat. 6705 ; W. $ A. Prodr. 345 ; Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. FL 101. 

 B. sinuosa, Wall. Cat. 6716, partly. B. amplexicaulis, Lamk. Diet. i. 496 ; DC. 

 I. c. 306; W. 8f A. Prodr. 346. B. sagittata and Rheedei, Blume; DC. I. c. 

 305, 306. Harlandia bryonioides, Hance in Walp. Ann. ii. 648. Rheede Hort. 

 Mai. viii. t. 26. 



Throughout INDIA and CEYLON, very common. DISTBIB. Malaya, China, North 

 Australia. 



Stem and leaves usually nearly glabrous, or leaves scabrous above ; petiole short, 

 often hispid. Leaves polymorphous; sometimes 6 by scarcely 1 in., narrow triangular- 

 lanceolate, sometimes cordate-oblong much rounded, often palmate nearly to the base 

 with 3-5 narrow divaricate segments; basal lobes usually produced strongly backwards, 

 rounded subacute or most acute. Inflorescence usually dioecious, male corymbose on a 

 peduncle 2-4 in. or sessile; pedicels glabrous or hairy, subbracteate ; females solitary, 

 very short peduncled. Young ovary narrow-oblong, glabrous or somewhat pubescent. 

 Fruit bright-red, usually much larger than that of the two preceding species. Seeds 

 about 12; sometimes only 4-6 in the typical Z. umbellata, as said always in Z. 

 amplexicaulis by W. & A. Wight says that Z. umbellata may be distinguished from 

 Z. amplexicaulis by having small oblong bracts on the middle of the pedicels, but 

 these cannot be made out even in Wight's own specimens. 



VAE. nepalensis, leaves deeply 5-palmate with narrow lobes, scattered glands, 

 young ovary densely velvety, seeds oblong slightly compressed quite smooth and 

 rounded with no trace of a margin. Bryonia nepalensis, Seringe in DC. Prodr. iii. 

 307. Temperate Western Himalaya, alt. 4000-7000 ft.; Royle; Thomson; Jacque- 

 mont; Strachey $ Winterbotfom, &c. A variety many times collected but only within 

 a very limited area in G-urwhal, Kumaon and Kunawur. 



17. 1VIELOTHRIA, Linn. 



Climbing herbs ; tendrils simple or 2-fid. Leaves petioled, deltoid, truncate 

 or hastate, entire or deeply 3-lobed, little hairy, often punctate. Flowers small, 

 white, usually monoacious, males and females often from the same axil ; male 

 pedicels long, clustered (rarely subsolitary) in the axils, or clustered on long 

 racemes resembling branches without leaves ; female long-pedicelled. MALE : 

 calyx-tube short, teeth 5, small ; corolla 5-partite ; stamens 3, inserted in the 

 middle of the calyx-tube ; anthers free, one 1-celled, two 2-celled ; cells free, 

 straight, simple, more or less lateral, connective prolonged, undivided, glabrous. 

 FEMALE : calyx and corolla as in the male ; ovary oblong, style long, stigmas 3 

 subglobose ; ovules many, horizontal ; placentas 3, vertical. Fruit indehiscent, 

 globose, acute, or fusiform subrostrate. Seeds many, small, oblong, much com- 

 pressed, obscurely margined, smooth or very nearly so. DISTRIB. Species 25, 

 all tropical. 



* Fruit fusiform) subtrigonom. 

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