630 LXV. CUCUEBITACE^. (C. B. Clarke.) \Ctenolepis. 



leaf not very acute nor much longer than the others, male peduncle less than 

 ^ in., fruit not longer than broad. Bryonia Garcini, DC. Prodr. iii. 308 ; 

 Roxb. Fl Ind. iii. 727; Wall. Cat. 6712; W. $ A. Prodr. 344. Zehneria 

 Garcini, Stocks in Hook. Kew Journ. Sot. iv. 149 ; Dais. $ Gibs. Bomb. FL 99. 



BUNDEIJUJND; Edgeworth. DECCAN PENINSULA ; Bottler, &c. CEYLON; Thwaites. 



Annual ; stem not elongate, more or less scabrous and punctate, scarcely at all 

 hairy. Leaves 1-H in. diam., lobes often sinuate and lobed; petiole - in.; 

 stipuliform bracts |~in. and more, elliptic, with long cilia. Fruit | by \ in. " 



2. C. cerasiforsnis, Naud. in Ann. So. Nat. eer. 5, vi. 13 ; middle lobe 

 of the leaf acute longer than the others, male peduncle -1 in., fruit ellipsoid 

 not in the least narrowed into the peduncle. Zehneria cerasiformis, Stocks in 

 Hook. Kew Journ. Sot. iv. 149. 



SCINDE ; Stocks. G-TTJERAT ; Ddlzcll. DISTRIB. Tropical and Southern Africa. 

 Hardly distinguishable from C. Garcini. Leaves usually larger, sometimes 3 in. 

 diam. 



22. DXCJEX.OSFERTCUZIK, Q. B, Clarke, 



A climbing scabrous herb; tendrils simple. Leaves petioled, cordate or 

 hastate, ovate, acute, little lobed. Flowers minute; males and females 

 clustered in the same axils, shorfr-pedicelled. MALE: calyx-tube short, cam- 

 panulate, teeth 5, minute ; corolla 5-partite ; stamens 3, filaments very short, 

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

 produced. Fruit small, membranous, obovoid, subtrigonous, l-celled ; with 3 

 basal erect seeds. Seeds with three parallel equal cells, the two lateral empty. 



1. D. Ritchiei, C. S. Clarke. 



BELGATJM ; Ritchie. Also in Herb. Stocks doubtless from Western India. 



Exceedingly like Mukia scabrella except as to the seeds, and the flowers are 

 smaller. Leaves 2| by If in., scabrid and somewhat hispid on both surfaces; petiole 

 f in. Fruit in. diam. Seeds by | and ^ in. thick, attached to the very bottom 

 of the fruit, erect. Female flowers not seen. 



23. THLADIANTHA, Sunye. 



Climbing herbs ; tendrils simple, rarely 2- fid. Leaves petioled, entire or tri- 

 partite, deeply cordate, denticulate, softly pubescent or nearly glabrous. Flowers 

 dioecious, yellow, large or small. Male peduncles in the fully developed plant 

 paired, one 1-flowered ebracteate caducous, the other racemed the flowers with 

 or without bracts; female peduncle elongate, 1- flowered, ebracteate. MALE: 

 calyx-tube shortly carnpanulate, the bottom shut by a horizontal scale ; seg- 

 ments 5, lanceolate ; corolla campanulate, 5-partite, segments revolute about 

 half-way down ; filaments 5, inserted near the mouth of the calyx-tube ; 

 anther 1-celled, narrow-oblong, straight. FEMALE : calyx and corolla as in the 

 male ; ovary oblong, style deeply 3-fid with 3 reniform stigmas ; ovules many, 

 horizontal ; placentas 3, vertical. Fruit ellipsoid, obtuse, indehiscent, green, 

 cylindric with vertical ribs. Seeds many, horizontal, small, obovoid. com- 

 pressed, smooth. DISTEIB. Species 2, Bengal, Malaya, China. 



The generic character is here widened to include the Khasia species. As in most 

 Cucurbits with paired male peduncles, either the simple or the racemed one is often 

 wanting, and the two do not flower together ; the simple peduncle generally falls off 



