CUCURBITACE^S. IX. BRYONIA. X. SICYOS. 



44 B. NIPAULE'NSIS (Ser. mss. in D. C. prod. 3. p. 307.) 

 stems numerous ; leaves palmately 5-lobed, scabrous above, 

 smooth beneath ; lobes narrow, very acute, almost entire : ter- 

 minal one very long : lateral ones divaricate, lower ones very 

 short or wanting ; petioles short ; male flowers in fascicles, nu- 

 merous, small ; peduncles unequal ; fruit unknown. O- ? H. 

 Native of Nipaul. 



Nipaul Bryony. PI. cl. 



45 B. FICIFOLIA (Lam. diet. 1. p. 498.) leaves 5-lobed, some- 

 what denticulated ; lobes deep, obtuse : petioles and stem hispid. 

 If., G. Native of Buenos Ayres. B. Bonariensis, Mill. diet. 

 Dill. hort. elth. p. 58. t. 50. f. 58. Flowers whitish. 



Fig-leaved Bryony. Fl. July, Aug. Clt. 1710. PI. cl. 



46 B. ? ACU'TA (Desf. fl. all. 2. p. 360.) stem slender ; leaves 

 somewhat 7-lobed ; lobes lanceolate, acute, entire, or toothed ; 

 tendrils simple ; male peduncles many-flowered ; calycine seg- 

 ments narrow, acute; fruit unknown. %. H. Native of the 

 kingdom of Tunis, in hedges. Corolla campanulate, spreadingly 

 5-cleft, twice the size of that of B. alba. 



A cute-\o\ae<\ Bryony. PI. cl. 



47 B. VARIEGA'TA (Mill, diet.) leaves palmate, with lanceolate 

 segments, which are dotted above and smooth beneath. I/ . S. 

 Native of America. Fruit ovate, scattered. 



Variegated Bryony. PI. cl. 



48 B. MACROPHY'LLA (Ser. in D. C. prod. 3. p. 308 ) stem 

 thick, striated ; leaves cordate, lobed ; angles cut ; lobes toothed ; 

 petioles long ; male flowers large, racemose, on long peduncles : 

 female ones solitary, pedunculate ; fruit oblong, pilose. 1 . S. 

 Native country unknown. Leaves large, size of those of the 

 common vine. 



Large-leaved Bryony. PI. cl. 



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Leaves palmate. 



49 B. RACEMOSA (Mill, diet, and Swartz, prod. 116. fl. ind. 

 occid. 2. p. 1148.) lower leaves rather palmate, upper ones 3- 

 lobed and undivided ; segments of the leaves ovate ; flowers 

 racemose ; pedicels rather secund ; fruit oval. 1 . S. Native 

 of Jamaica and St. Domingo, in woods and hedges. Plum, 

 amer. 83. t. 97. Root oblong, fleshy. Flowers yellowish. 



.Racemose-flowered Bryony. PI. cl. 



50 B. PINNATIFIDA (Burch. cat. geogr. no. 2098. voy. 1 . 

 p. 547.) leaves ternately pedate, with pinnutilid lobes, and 

 linear and oblong, obtuse, veinless segments. I/ . G. Native 

 of the Cape of Good Hope. 



Pinnalifid-\eaved Bryony. Fl. Jul. Aug. Clt. 1815. PI. cl. 



51 B. TENUIFOLIA (Gill. mss. ex Hook, et Arn. in bot. 

 misc. 3. p. 234.) leaves 3-parted ; segments bipinnatifid ; female 

 peduncles solitary, simple, equal in length to the petioles ; fruit 

 oval, smooth, 2-seeded. T(. . w . G. Native of Chili, in the 

 Pampas, in the province of Cordova ; and in sandy places near 

 Santa Fe, and also of Buenos Ayres. The vernacular name of 

 the plant is Agi del Torvo. 



Fine-leaved Bryony. PI. cl. 



52 B. L*:' vis (Thunb. prod. 13.) leaves cordate, palmate, 

 serrated, smooth ; flowers axillary, rather umbellate. If. . G. 

 Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 



Smooth Bryony. PI. cl. 



53 B. PALMA'TA (Lin. spec. 1438.) leaves cordate, palmate, 

 smooth, 5-parted, with lanceolate, repandly serrated segments, 

 lateral segments the shortest; fruit large, globose. If.. S. Na- 



! tive of Ceylon. 



Palmate-leaved Bryony. Fl. Jul. Aug. Clt. 1778. PI. cl. 



54 B. ? GARCINI (Willd. spec. 4. p. 623.) leaves palmately 5- 

 parted, with roundish-obovate, toothed lobes, scabrous above ; 

 stipulas, (probably bracteas,) kidney-shaped and ciliated. I/ . S. 



Native of Ceylon. Burm. fl. ind. 311. t. 57. f. 3. Sicyos 

 Garcini, Lin. mant. 297. Perhaps a species of Momdrdica. 

 Garcin's Bryony. Fl. July, Aug. Clt. 1812. PI. cl. 



55 B. ALCE^EFOLIA (Willd. 1. c. p. 624.) leaves palmately 5- 

 parted : with linear-lanceolate, 3-parted lobes, having scabrous 

 margins; tendrils simple ; peduncles axillary, 1 -flowered. 1(..S. 

 Native of the East Indies. 



Hollyhock-leaved Bryony. PI. cl. 



56 B. LACINIOSA (Lin. spec. 624.) leaves palmately 5-parted, 

 cordate, rough, and blistered: with oblong-lanceolate, acuminated, 

 serrated segments ; petioles muricated ; peduncles 1 -flowered, 

 muricated ; corollas hairy inside, or tomentose, but smooth on 

 the outside ; fruit the size of a cherry, striated with white ; 

 seeds obovate, circled by a longitudinal elevated zone. If.. S. 

 Native of Ceylon. Herm. hort. lugd. 95. t. 97. Aroy-peria- 

 ginge of the Hindoos. Flowers yellow. 



Jagged-leaved Bryony. Fl. July, Aug. Clt. 1710. PI. cl. 



57 B. ? CUCUMEROIDES (Ser. in D. C. prod. 3. p. 308.) seeds 

 rusty, transversely oblong, surrounded by a very thick dotted 

 zone. "H.. S. Native country unknown. Cucumeroides, Thunb. 

 ex Gaertn. fruct. 2. p. 485. 



Cucumber-like Bryony. PI. cl. 



58 B. AFRICA V NA (Thunb. prod. 13. but not of Lin.) root 

 tuberous ; upper leaves palmately 5-parted ; lobes oblong, 

 deeply toothed ; lower leaves cordate, having the angles toothed. 

 If.. G. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Willd. spec. 4. p. 

 624. Herm. par. 107. t. 108. Male flowers in subumbellate 

 panicles. Fruit mucronate. 



African Bryony. Fl. July, Aug. Clt. 1759. PI. cl. 



59 B. NA'NA (Lam. diet. 1. p. 497.) stems slender; lower 

 leaves roundish-cordate, quite entire : upper ones deeply 3-lob jd ; 

 lobes obtuse. 3. S. Native of Africa. 



Dwarf Bryony. PI. cl. 



60 B. DISSE'CTA (Thunb. prod. 1. p. 497.) leaves palmately 

 5-parted : with linear pinnatifid segments, having revolute sca- 

 brous margins ; male flowers ? umbellate ; fruit solitary, 

 roundish, mucronate, bluntly angular, yellow ; seeds 3-4. 11 . 

 G. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Willd. spec. 4. p. 

 625. B. Africana, Lin. spec. 1438. Flowers white ? Probably 

 distinct from the preceding species. 



Dissected-\eaved Bryony. Fl. July, Aug. Clt. 1710. PI. cl. 



61 B. DTGITA'TA (Thunb. prod. 13.) leaves digitate: with 

 linear 2-lobed scabrous segments ; flowers umbellate. }/ . G. 

 Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 



Digitate-]eaved Bryony. PI. cl. 



62 B. WALLICHIA'NA (Ser. mss. ex D. C. prod. 3. p. 309.) 

 stem filiform, striated ; leaves nearly sessile, sagittate, rugged 

 from warts; terminal lobe lanceolate-linear, very long, some- 

 what denticulated ; lateral lobes oblong, reflexed, remotely den- 

 ticulated ; male flowers in fascicles, numerous, on short pe- 

 duncles ; fruit unknown. I/ . G. Native of Nipaul. B. fili- 

 formis, Roxb. 



Wallkh's Bryony. PI. cl. 



Cult. The hardy perennial species are plants of easy culture, 

 only requiring to be planted in the ground. The stove peren- 

 nial species should be grown in pots, and the stems trained up the 

 rafters. The seeds of annual kinds require to be sown in a hot- 

 bed in spring, and when the plants are of sufficient size may 

 be planted out in a sheltered situation. All the species are pro- 

 pagated by seeds. None of them are worth growing, except in 

 botanic gardens. 



X. SI'CYOS (from OIKVOC, sicyos, the Greek name for the 

 cucumber; resemblance and affinity). Lin. gen. no. 1481. 

 Juss. gen. no. 394. Gaertn. fruct. 2. p. 45. t. 88. f. 1. Sicyokles, 

 Tourn. inst. 103. t. 28. 

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