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Soorma Bank, Griffith (Kew Distrib. No. 2530). The male inflorescence and the 

 fruit are altogether those of M. odorata ; the leaves unlike. 



o. HI. bicirrhosa, C. B. Clarke-, tendrils 2-fid, leaves deeply cordate 

 ovate caudate-acuminate, male inflorescence elongate raceined. 



BIRMA ; Griffith (Kew Distrib. No. 2522). 



Nearly glabrous ; stem like that of M. odorata ; tendrils stout all 2-fid. Leaves 4 

 by 3 in. ; petiole 2-3 in. Inflorescence exactly as in M. odorata. Male flower alto- 

 gether of the genus, anthers lateral on the connective which is long produced above 

 them : rudiment of the ovary depressed globose. Fruit not seen. This appears as 

 an excessively developed M. odorata. 



18. RHYNCHOCARPA, Schroder. 



Climbing herbs ; tendrils simple. Leaves petioled, orbicular and undivided in 

 the Indian species. Flowers monoecious or dioecious, very small ; males sub- 

 corymbose on a short peduncle; females solitary (rarely aggregated), subsessile, 

 sometimes in the same axil with the male. MALE : calyx-tube campanulate, 

 teeth 5, small ; corolla 5-partite ; stamens 3 (rarely 5) ; anthers free or united 

 one 1-celled, the others 2-celled ; cells straight ; connective crested 2-lobed or 

 long-produced in two points. FEMALE: calyx and corolla as in the male; 

 ovary ovoid, beaked ; style ending in 2 rarely in 3 long stigmas ; ovules not 

 many, horizontal ; placentas 2 rarely 3, vertical. Fruit ovoid, rostrate, inde- 

 hiscent. Seeds ovoid, compressed, not very many. DISTRIB. Species 5; in 

 warmer Africa, one also in Western India. 



1. XI. fcetida, Schrad. in Linncea, xii. 404 ; foetid, scaberulous-pubescent, 

 stigmas 2, fruit in. globose pubescent beak nearly in., seeds 4-6. Naud. in 

 Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 4, xii. 146. R. rostrata, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 

 105. ^Echmandra rostrata, Arn. in Hook. Journ. Bot. iii. 274 ; Dalz. fy Gibs. 

 Bomb. Fl. 100. Bryonia pilosa, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 104, Fl. Ind. iii. 726. B. 

 filicaulis, Wall. Cat. 6713. B. rostrata, Rottler ; DC. Prodr. iii. 304 ; Wall. Cat. 

 6701 ; W. fy A. Prodr. 346. B. Perottetiana, Seringe in DC. I c. Tricho- 

 santhes fcetidissima, Jacq. Ic. Rar. t. 624, Melothria foetida, Lamk. Diet. iv. 87. 

 Cyrtonema convolvulacea and divergens, Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. 286. 



GUZERAT; Dalzell. DECCAN PENINSULA ; Bottler-, Wight. Malabar Hills ? Stocks ; 

 Dr. Ritckie. AVA, Wallich. DISTRIB. Tropical Africa and Natal. 



Stem somewhat stout, pubescent. Leaves 2 in. diam., orbicular or ovate, cordate, 

 dentate ; petiole ^-1 in. Male racemes small, scarcely 1 in. Calyx hairy with subu- 

 late teeth. Connective'of each anther produced into a long curved pointed horn. Fruit 

 bright red, 2-celled. Seeds in., distinctly margined. 



SPECIES IMPERFECTLY KNOWN. 



K. ? DELTOIDEA, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 105; leaves deltoid with 

 spreading acute basal lobes rough above, berries smooth glabrous. 

 Upper TENASSERIM, Attaran, Brandis ; PEGU and PROME, Kurz. 

 Not seen ; from the description it may be a variety of ft. fcetida. 



19. COHALLOCARPUS, Welw. 



Climbing or prostrate herbs, scabrid or subtomentose ; tendrils simple. Leaves 

 petioled, roundish-cordate, somewhat thick, entire lobed or palmate. Flower* 



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