626 LXV. CUCUKBITACEJ:. (0. B. Clarke.) [Melotlwia. 



1. BE. zeylanica, C. B. Clarke ; tendrils simple, leaves not lobed little 

 cordate, male pedicels clustered in the axils, fruit If in. fusiform. M. del- 

 toidea, Thwaites Enum. 124. yEchmandra deltoidea, Am. in Hook. Journ. Bot. 

 iii. 274. Bryonia deltoidea, Arn. Pugill. 19. 



CEYLON; common up to 5000 ft., Walker; Gardner. 



Nearly glabrous, stems thin. Leaves 2 by 1^ in., acute, often punctate on both sur- 

 faces ; petiole 1 in. Pedicels of males and females about as long as the petioles. 

 Corolla hairy round the throat ; rudimentary ovary of the male depressed-globose-. 

 Ovary fusiform ; stigma large, 3-lobed. Fruit ^ in. broad, obtusely trigonous, almost 

 rostrate. Seeds in., packed in three columns. The name M. deltoidea is pre- 

 occupied by Benth. in Flora Nigrit. 368 for a different plant. 



2. M. Wallichii, C. B. Clarke ; tendrils simple, leaves not lobed little 

 cordate, male peduncle racemed, fruit 2 in. fusiform. Bryonia odorata, Wall. 

 Cat. 6706 D. 



PROME (Burmah) ; Wallich. 



Stem glabrous. Leaves 2-3 by 2|-3|- in., very broadly deltoid, sharply trian- 

 gular, sinuous scarcely denticulate, scabrous above with flat round glands, slightly 

 hispid beneath. Male raceme nearly as in M. odorata. Fruit pedicel f in. Fruit 

 rostrate, attenuate at the base, resembling closely that of M. zeylanica but rather 

 larger. Seeds nearly ^ in., larger than those of M. zeylanica, many, oblong, very 

 complanate, hardly margined, smooth on the faces. 



** Fruit globose, subquadrate, obtuse. 



3. BX. indie a, Lour. FL Cochinch. 43 ; tendrils simple, leaves more or 

 less cordate entire or somewhat 3-lobed, male pedicels clustered in the axils, 

 fruit in. ellipsoid pointed. DC. Prodr. iii. 313 ; Naud. in Ann.^Sc. Nat. ser. 

 4, xvi. 169, wtth ajfyl] Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 105. M. Regelii, 

 Naud. I. c. ser. 5, v. 35. ^Echmandra indica, Arn. in Hook. Journ. Bot. iii. 274 : 

 Miq. Fl. 2nd. Bat. i. pt. i. 658. Bryonia tenella, Roxb. FL Ind. iii. 725. 



SIKZIM, alt. 3000 ft. ; C. B. Clarke. SILHET in the Jheels ; H. f. $ T. CHITTA- 

 GONG ; Kurz. DISTBIB. Malaya to the Philippines, China, Japan. 



Nearly glabrous, stem slender. Leaves 1^ by 1^ in., acuminate or scarcely acute, 

 often punctate on both surfaces ; petiole 1 in. Pedicels of males and females about 

 as long as the petioles. Point of the connective short. Fruit white, seeds strongly 

 margined (ex Naudiri). This appears exceedingly rare in India : but it may be 

 doubted whether the next is other than a form of it : see Benth. FL Hongk. 125. 



4. IMC. odorata, Hk. f. fy T. in Herb. ; tendrils simple, leaves more or 

 less cordate entire or somewhat 3-lobed, male pedicels in distant clusters on 

 long racemes, fruit f- in. globose quadrate very obtuse. Bryonia odorata, 

 Ham. in Wall. Cat. 6706 A. B. C. 



NORTH-WEST HIMALAYA ; Jtoyle. Throughout the plain of EAST BENGAL, common, 

 and ascending the hills to 7000 ft. alt. 



Nearly glabrous, stem often stouter than in M. indica. Leaves 2-3 by l-2 in., 

 acute, often punctate on both surfaces ; petiole 1-1| in. Male peduncle long, some- 

 what zigzag, with a cluster of pedicels (each -f in.) at each angle ; female pedicel 

 as long as the petiole. Corolla white, with much hair round the throat. Connective 

 not much produced ; rudiment of ovary in the male flower globose depressed. Seeds 

 _ in., not or very obscurely margined. This species has been separated from M. 

 indica by the long raceme of the male flowers, which, however, does not essentially 

 differ. The fruit appears very obtuse, the degree of margination of the seeds can 

 hardly be relied on. 



VAR. triloba ; lobes of leaf divaricating sometimes very narrow and long, petiole 

 often shorter than in the type. Bryonia triflora, Wall. Cat. 6707. East Bengal; 



