540 FLORA OF MADRAS. [Blastania. 



in $ 0. Ovary ovoid ; ovules few, horizontal, on 2-3 placentas ; 

 style columnar; stigmas 2, rarely 3; pistillode in flowers 0. 

 Fruit a fleshy globose or subquadrate berry. Seeds usually 2 or 

 3, marginate, obovate, hollowed on one side, convex 011 the other, 

 the testa smooth. 



BLASTANIA GARCINI, Cogn. Ctenolepis Gartini, Hook, f . ; 

 F. B. I. ii. 629. Bryonia Garcini, Willd.; W. & A. 344. 



N. Circars, Deccan and Carnatic, extending westwards to the 



Ghats. 



A slender pretty annual climber with orange or red fruit. 



11. Kedrostis, Medikus. 



Prostrate or scandent herbs, with a perennial rootstock ; tendrils 

 simple. Leaves entire or lobed, dentate or partite. Flowers small, 

 yellow or greenish; monoecious, rarely dioecious ; <J racemose or 

 corymbose ; ? solitary or aggregated, shortly pedicelled. Calyx- 

 tube campanulate ; lobes 5, short. Corolla rotate, 5-partite. 

 Stamens 3, rarely 5, inserted in the calyx-tube ; filaments short ; 

 anthers' short, 1 1-celled, the others 2-celled or all 1-celled if 5 ; 

 cells straight or curved ; connective produced above the cells, 

 usually bifid ; staminodes in ? or 3, very small. Ovary ovoid, 

 beaked, with 2-3 placentas ; ovules few ; style sometimes sur- 

 rounded by a disk ; stigmas 2 or 3 ; pistillode in or glandular. 

 Fruit an ovoid, usually rostrate berry. Seeds few, tumid, marginate, 

 testa smooth. 



KEDROSTIS ROSTRATA, Cogn. Ehynchocarpa foetida, C. B, 

 Clarke ; F. B. I. ii. 627. Bryov.ia rostrata, Rottl.; W. & A. 346. 

 Carnatic (Wight, Rottler). 



A prostrate or scandent herb with orbicular or reniform 

 leaves, small flowers and an ovoid, beaked, red fruit. 



12. Corallocarpus, Welw. 



Prostrate or climbing herbs ; tendrils simple. Leaves roundish- 

 cordate, lobed or palmate, rather thick. Flowers minute, monoe- 

 cious, <$ in small crowded racemes on long peduncles, ? solitary 

 short-peduncled from the same axils. Calyx-tube campanulate ; 

 lobes 5, short. Corolla 5-partite ; lobes ovate. Stamens 3, free, 

 inserted on the calyx-tube ; filaments very short ; anthers all 



