CUCURB1TACE.E 



605 



paler beneath ; petioles tapering slightly upwards, semiterete, 

 channelled on the upper side. 



No. 1. With a channelled pubescent petiole 2-2-5 cm. long by 

 1-5 mm. wide, and a cordate, acuminate, irregularly serrate-dentate 

 lamina, scabrous above, pubescent beneath, light green, thin, 



FIG. 388. Cephalanclra palmata. Three-quarters nat. size. 



palmatinerved and reticulately veined, 3-4 cm. long and about 

 3 cm. wide. 



No. 2. Distinctly palmately trilobed. 



Nos. 3 and 4. Palmately five-lobed like those of the Vine. 



Bryonia laciniosa, L. (fig. 389). 



Fruit baccate, globose, indehiscent. 



Seed obovoid, entirely surrounded at the edges with a shallow 

 ridge, compressed at the sides where they are protected by a large 

 semi-obovoid mass of corky-brown matter ; micropyle and hiluni 

 basal ; raphe and chalaza inconspicuous. 



Endosperm absent. 



Embryo straight, large, occupying the whole interior of the 

 cavity to which it conforms ; cotyledons oblong-oval, obtuse, entire, 

 thick or subfleshy, plano-convex, and closely occupying the cavity 

 of the seed, pale yellow ; radicle short, turbinate, obtuse, close to 

 the hilum. 



Seedling (fig. 390). 



Hypocotyl erect, obtusely quadrangular, glabrous, shining, pale 

 green mottled with darker green, and with green lines on the angles 

 and sometimes between, 5-6 cm. above the soil. 



Cotyledons foliaceous, obovate-oblong, obtuse, emarginate, tri- 

 nerved in the basal half, and alternately penninerved in the upper, 

 glabrous on both surfaces, green above, pale beneath, with short 



