Cerasiocarpum.'] LXV. CUCUEBITACB^. (C. B. Clarke.) 629 



rudiment of the ovary 0. FEMALE: calyx and corolla as in the male; ovary- 

 ovoid ; disc 0, stigmas 3 ; ovules few, horizontal ; placentas vertical. Fruit 

 ellipsoid, subsessile, indehiscent, without a beak. Seeds 2-6, ovoid, smooth, 

 slightly compressed. 



1. C. zeylanicum, Hook. f. in Gen. PL i. 832, female flower sub- 

 sessile, seeds ovoid smooth slightly compressed. ^Echmandra zeylanica, 

 Thwaites Enum. 125. 



CEYLON ; alt. 3000-5000 ft. ; Thwaites. 



Leaves 3-6 in., obtuse or acute, cordate or hastate, almost 3-lobed, entire or 

 undulate-denticulate; petiole -! in. Flowers -3- in. diam., yellow ; petals broad, 

 acuminate. Berry at most \ in. diam. Seeds - in. diam., little compressed, incom- 

 pletely margined, 2-6 to each fruit. 



DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



2. C. ? PENANGENSE, C. B. Clarke-, female peduncle -1 A in., seeds much com- 

 pressed somewhat rugose on the faces. Bryonia heterophylla, Wall. Cat. 6704. 



PINANG; Wallich. 



Stems rather strong, minutely pilose ; tendrils simple. Leaves cordate-oblong, 

 acute, entire slightly denticulate, scabrous above minutely hispid beneath. Flowers 

 monoecious, all peduncled, solitary female and racemed males from the same axil ; 

 male peduncle 1 in. with 8 small pedicels at the summit. Fruit f| in. diam., 

 smooth, nearly globose. Seeds 4 to 6, in., somewhat margined, oblong. Closely 

 resembles C. zeylanicum except as to the peduncled female : but there are no flowers 

 on Wallich's example. 



3. ? C. MAINGAYI, C. B. Clarice ; leaves 3-lobed and entire, female peduncle 

 ^-f in., seeds margined not much compressed very rugose pitted on the faces. 



MALACCA; MaingayTSo. 1268. 



Stems nearly glabrous; tendrils simple. Leaves 2 by 1^ in., with three divaricate 

 lanceolate lobes or entire, not much cordate, scabrous on both surfaces ; petiole in. 

 Male peduncle \\ in. with 8 minute pedicels at the summit ; female from the same 

 axil. Stamens of the genus. Fruit $ by less than f in., oblong, subacute. Seeds 

 10-12, less than in. This may be a Melothria, but the long male peduncle with 

 short pedicels and the unproduced connective do not suit. The capsule and seeds do 

 not suit Cerasiocarpum. 



21. CTENOIiEFXS,//^./. 



Climbing or prostrate scabrous herbs, turning black in drying ; tendrils simple. 

 Leaves cordate, orbicular, 5-7-lobed ; stipuliform bracts at the axils of the 

 leaves large round or elliptic, ciliate or dentate. Flowers minute, monoecious ; 

 males in small racemes on inconspicuous axile peduncles ; female solitary, short- 

 peduncled, in the same axil with the male. MALE : calyx-tube short, cam- 

 panulate, lobes 5, subulate ; corolla 5-partite ; stamens 3, filaments very short ; 

 anthers free, one 1-celled, two 2-celled ; cells straight, connective not produced ; 

 rudiment of ovary 0. FEMALE : calyx and corolla as in the male ; ovary ovoid ; 

 1-celled ; disc ; style columnar, stigmas 2 or 3 ; ovules 2 or 3, horizontal ; 

 placentas parietal. Fruit small, globose or subquadrate, oblique, indehis- 

 cent. Seeds 2 or 3, ellipsoid, much compressed, acutely margined, some- 

 what boat-shaped. DISTEIB. Species 3 ; in India, Tropical Western Asia and 

 Tropical Africa. The remarkable stipuliform bracts are characteristic of this 

 genus. 



1. C. G-arcini, Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 5, vi. 13 ; middle lobe of the 



