Cerasiocarpum.'] CUCURBIT 'ACE AE. 541 



2-celled or 1 1-celled, the cells straight, lateral on the thm con- 

 nective, which is often produced and sometimes bifid above ; in 

 $ staminodes or minute. Ovary ovoid, beaked, 2-3-celled ; 

 ovules few, on 2-3 placentas ; style straight, without disk ; stigma 

 3-, rarely 2-4-lobed ; in ^ flowers pistillode minute. Fruit an 

 ovoid usually beaked fleshy berry, circumsciss near the base. 

 Seeds few obovoid or subglobose, often appressed-pilose, very little 

 compressed. 



Peduncles of $ flowers thickened, also of $ , which reach 3 in. long- ; 



tendrils stout; leaves rather thick, deeply 3-5-lobed 1. epigaeus. 



Peduncles of $ flowers very slender, also of $ , which reach 1-5 in. 



long ; tendrils capillary ; leaves thin, 3-lobed 2. gracilipes. 







1. CORALLOCARPUS EPIGAEUS, Hook. f. ; F. B. I. ii. 628. 

 Bryonia epigaea, Rottl. ; W. & A. 346 ; Wt. Ic. t. 503. 



Deccan and Carnatic and westward to the lower hills of 

 the Ghats, in dry country. 



A thick -stemmed climber from a large tuberous roots tock, 

 the leaves rough and variable in their lobes, the fruit scarlet 

 in the middle, the base and beak green. 



2. CORALLOCARPUS GRACILIPES, Cogn. Monog. 650. 



Carnatic, Near Pondicherry (Lepine). 

 A very slender climber. 



13. Cerasiocarpum, Hook. f. 



Climbing glabrous herbs ; tendrils simple. Leaves oblong, 

 cordate at base, entire or hastately 3-lobed. Flowers small, 

 monoecious ; <J in racemes ; 5 solitary, often from the same 

 axils. Calyx-tube campanulate ; lobes 5, minute. Corolla rotate, 

 5-partite, the lobes ovate. Stamens 3, free, inserted on the mouth 

 of the calyx-tube ; filaments very short, broad ; anthers 1 1-celled, 

 2 2-celled ; cells oblong, lateral on the connective, which is 

 membranous and often produced; staminodes in ? 0. Ovary 

 ovoid, 1-celled, with 2-3 placentas ; ovules 4-6 ; style columnar ; 

 stigma 3-lobed ; in pistillode 0. Fruit a depressed globose 

 smooth fleshy indehiscent berry. Seeds 2-6 broadly ovoid, not 

 compressed, marginate, surrounded by orange pulp. 



CERASIOCARPUM BENNETTII, Cogn. C. zeylanicum, Hook. f. ; 



F. B. I. ii. 629 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. t. 44. 



