CUCURBITACE.E 



GOT 



lanceolate-ell ptic, acuminate, acute, serrate-dentate, revolute at the 

 margin ; lateral lobes lanceolate, serrate-dentate especially on the 

 posterior side; basal lobes small, developed by fission from the 

 lateral or those lobes immediately above them, ovate, acute, dentate 

 mostly on the posterior side, which is somewhat oblique. 



FIG, 390, Bryonia laciniosa. Half nat. size. 



Bryonia dioica, Jacq, (fig. 391 ). 



Primary root succulent, oblique, colourless, with a few fibres. 



Hypocotyl very short, succulent, ridged, about -o cm. long, 1'5 

 mm. thick. 



Cotyledons unequal, 1-5-2 cm. long, '75-1 cm. wide, with pub- 

 escent petiole as long as blade, 1-1-5 mm. wide, orbicular or nearly 

 so, suddenly cuneate at the base, rounded at the apex, entire, 

 palmatinerved and coarsely reticulate, pubescent, thin, light green, 

 not very persistent, 



Stem suberect at first, ultimately climbing by means of tendrils, 

 not quite 1 mm. thick, angular, pubescent, pale green ; 1st internode 

 about 1 cm long ; the others l'5-2 cm. 



Leaves simple, cauline, alternate, exstipulate, petiolate, ultimately 

 palmately nerved and lobed, reticulate, pubescent, scabrous, deep 



