124. CUCURBITACE^. {KaHvia. 



1. K ART VI A, Am. 



Calyx urceolate, with 5 small teeth at the base of as many petals, which 

 appear to form part of the calyx. Male flowers : Stamens 3, wii\ distinct 

 filaments inserted at the base of the calyx. Anthers with a broad connecti- 

 vum, two with 2 cells each, the third usnally 1-celled, more or less sinnous. 

 Female flowers : Style cylindrical, with 3 large capitate stigmas. BeiTy gio- 

 bnlar or ovoid, not beaked. — Leaves veiy variable, entire or lobed. Flowers 

 small, the males in short racemes or umbels, the females solitaiy. 



A small genus, limited to Africa and tropical Asia, united by Thwaites with Zehneria, 

 Endl., and both scarcely distinct from Bri/0)na. 



1. K, umbellata. Am. in Hook. Journ. Bot. iii. 275. A glabrous 

 climber, ^vith little or none of the asperities so general in Cucurbitacece. 

 Leaves exceedingly variable in shape, usually 2 or 3 in. long, on short peti- 

 oles, deeply cordate at the base, and more or less angularly 3- to 5-lobed, the 

 middle lobe the longest, the lower ones very spreading; sometimes heart- 

 shaped and toothed only, sometimes di^dded almost to the base. Male flowers 

 2|^ lines long, with short broad lobes (petals) and minute spreading teeth be- 

 tween them on the outside ; the veiy short racemes, either sessile in the axils 

 or on a peduncle of near an inch. Female flowers solitaiy, sometimes in the 

 same axils as the male raceme. Beriy small, ovoid-oblong. — Harlandia 

 bryonio'ides, Hance in Walp. Ann. ii. 648. Bryonia umiellata, Willd. ; DC. 

 Prod. iii. 305. 



Hongkong, Hance, Wright. Extends over the greater part of India, and abundant in the 

 Archipelago. Dr. Hance's specimens were by mistake referred by Seemann to the Zehneria 

 viijsorensis, which may be at once distinguished by the male flowers, which are shorter, more 

 broadly campanulate, with very spreading lobes (or petals) as long as the tube. The berries 

 are also shorter and more globular. This species has not yet been found in China. 



2. JSCHMANDRA, Arn. 



Calyx campanulate, with 5 small teeth at the base of the 5-lobed corolla 

 which appears continuous with it. Stamens 3, inserted near the petals, in the 

 tube of the calyx ; filaments short, free. Anthers with a broad connectivum 

 projecting beyond the cells, 2 with 2 cells each, the third 1-celled. Ovary 

 oblong, contracted at the top. Stigmas 3, sessile. Berry oblong, indehiscent, 

 obtuse or contracted into a beak at the top. — Flowers small, the males in short 

 racemes or solitaiy, the females always solitary. 



A small genus, spread over Africa and tropical Asia. 



1. 2^. odorata. Hook. fil. and Thorns. Stems slender, glabrous or 

 slightly pubescent. Leaves broadly triangular or cordate, acuminate, about 

 1\ in. long, sinuately toothed or 3- or 5-lobed, thin, but very rough on the 

 upper side, on petioles of |^ to 1 in. Pedicels filiform, 1-flowered, 3 to 6 lines 

 long, usually 1 male and 1 to 3 females in the same axil. Male flowers about 

 3 lines long, and cleft to about the middle, the small subulate calyx-teeth re- 

 curved. Connective of the anthers broad and membranous, the anther-cells 

 reaching to about f of its length. Female flowers rather small. Berry oblong, 

 obtuse, not beaked, about ^ in. long, in the Hongkong variety, shorter and 

 globular in the more common Indian form. — Bryonia odorata, Ham. in Wall. 

 Catal. n. 6706. 



