534 FLORA OF MADRAS. [Luffa. 



C. B. Clarke) with scabrous and pubescent leaves, the fruit 

 small. 



3. LUFFA UMBELLATA, Roem. L. Kleinii, W. & A. 344 ; F. B. I. 

 ii. 616. 



W. Coast, in Travancore, scarce. 

 A slender branching climber. 



5. Bryonopsis, Arn. 



Annual scaberulous scandent herbs; tendrils 2-fid. Leaves 

 deeply palmately 5-lobed. Flowers monoecious, $ and 5 

 fascicled, often in the same axils. Calyx-tube broadly cam- 

 panulate ; lobes 5, subulate. Corolla campanulate, 5 -partite ; 

 lobes ovate. Stamens 3, free, inserted on the tube of the calyx ; 

 filaments short ; anthers cohering, 1 1 -celled, 2 2-celled, the cells 

 linear, flexuose round the broad connective not produced at the 

 apex ; staminodes in $ 3, small. Ovary globose or ovoid ; ovules 

 numerous, horizontal, on 3 placentas; style slender; stigmas 3, 

 papillose, deeply 2-lobed; pistillodes in $ flowers 0. Fruit a 

 spherical or ovoid-conical pulpy many-seeded berry. Seeds pyri- 

 forra, surrounded by a thick grooved crenulate ring- on either side 

 of which project the swollen faces of the seed. 



BRYONOPSIS LACINIOSA, Naud. Bryonia laciniosa, Linn. ; 

 F. B. I. ii. 622 ; W. & A. 345 ; Wt. Ic. t. 500. 



Most Districts, in hedges and on bushes, up to 4,000 ft. in 



the hills. 

 A slender climbing annual from a thick permanent rootstock, 



stems angular; berries conspicuous, *5 to 1 in. in diam., 



brick-red when ripe with white vertical lines. 



6. Cucumis, Linn. 



Annual herbs or with a perennial root, climbing or trailing, 

 hispid or scabrous ; tendrils simple. Leaves entire or palmately 

 3-7-lobed or 5-angled, dentate or serrate. Flowers yellow, monoe- 

 cious, short-peduncled, ,-J in clusters in the axils, $ solitary. 

 Calyx-tuloe turbinate or campanulate ; lobes 5. Corolla campanu- 

 late ; lobes 5, oblong or ovate, acute. Stamens 3, free, 1 1-celled, 

 2 2-celled, the cells conduplicate, the connective produced above 

 in a crest ; in $ flowers staminodes 3, setiform or ligulate. Ovary 

 in cJ a broad gland-like pistillode, in $ ovoid or globose ; ovules 



