538 FLORA OF MADRAS. IMelothria, 



Flowers monoecious ; leaves usually rufous-villous beneath, the 

 teeth very short ; berry globose, *25 in. in diam. ; seeds smooth, 



faintly marginate 2. perpusilla. 



Flowers dioecious ; leaves nearly glabrous beneath, the teeth 

 triangular ; berry oblong, '6 in. long, '3 in. broad ; seeds 



marginate 3, mucronata. 



Seeds large, globose, scarcely compressed ; leaves subcoriaceous y 

 variable in shape : 



Flowers dioecious ; leaves cordate, ovate or 3-5-lobed or hastate, 

 the lobes sometimes long, prominently nerved ; fruit oblong, 

 ribbed, up to 2'5 in. long; seeds smooth 011 the faces, the broad 



ring rugose 4. heteropliylla. 



Flowers monoecious ; leaves deeply cordate or sagittate, not 

 lobed though often angulate, prominently nerved; fruit ovoid,, 

 beaked, up to 1 in. long ; seeds smooth on the faces, nearly so 



on the flat ring 5. amplexicaulis. 



Flowers monoecious, $ fascicled, $ solitary; anthers subsessile, 

 the connective apiculate ; fruit small, globose, subsessile ; seeds 

 marginate, slightly flattened, '15 by "1 in. ; leaves and stems more 

 or less scabrous : 



Seeds smooth on the faces ; leaves beneath densely softly villous- 



tomentose 6. leiosperma. 



Seeds rugose on the faces ; leaves beneath shortly hirsute or 

 scabrous 7. maderaspatana. 



1. MELOTHRIA ZEYLANICA, C. B. Clarke in F. B. I. ii. 626. 



W. Ghats, in Wynaad and Pulney Hills, at about 3,000 ft. 

 A pretty, very slender climber, the flowers and fruit on 

 long slender pedicels. 



2. MELOTHRIA PERPUSILLA, Cogn. Zehneria Hookeriana, 

 Arn.; F. B. I. ii. 624. Bryonia Hookeriana, W. & A. 345. 

 B. maysorensis, Wt. Ic. t. 758. 



Deccan, Horsleykonda at 4,000 ft. (Fischer) ; W. Ghats, in 

 the Nilgiris and Pulneys, up to 6,000 ft. ; Shevaroy Hills 

 of Salem. 



A slender climber with small globose berries, red when 

 ripe, and greenish-yellow flowers. The var. subtruncata, 

 Cogn., has the leaves nearly truncate at base. 



3. MELOTHRIA MUCRONATA, Cogn. Zehneria Baueriana, C. B. 

 Clarke; F. B. I. ii. 624. Bryonia maysorensis, W. & A. 

 345 ; Wt. Ic. t. 1609 (but not dioecious). 



