^^ ■rnURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTOIii .SOCIETY, Vol. A. 



Ovules. — From 6 to 9 in number ; horizontal. 



Disk.— Absent. 



STIGMA?. -3. 



STYLES. —3, distinct but very short. 



FRUIT. — f inch, often \ to | inch ; roundish or ovoid ; conical, 

 says Trimen * ; with a blunt beak which is hardly perceptible in most- 

 female flowers. The fruit is smooth. Its colour varies from orange 

 to brick-redj which is most marked between the two ends— 2.^., in the 

 m. id-portion, bearing four or five vertical mottled- whitish streaks. The 

 top of the fruit is greenish. Botanically, the Fruit is an ^^ Inferior 

 Berry J''' But of this more hereafter, under the head of Remarks. 



SEEDS. — Elliptical or nearly globose; little-margined, about 6 in 



number ; much longer than broad (Clarke). Trimen says the seeds 



are " about 9, in an orange-coloured pulp," very slightly compressed ; 



pale brown ; " adpressed-pilose." Wight on the other hand says that 



the seeds are white. In the specimens I have examined, the pulp is 



distinctly whitish and gelatinous. . The colour of the seed varies from 



white to brown. The older or maturer the seed the browner is the 



colour. Wighc and Araott in their Prodromus (Vol. I. p. 346), say 



the seeds have slightly " compressed sides." 



Albumen.— Absent. 



REMARKS.- 



The following is a list of the various synonyms of the plant 

 suggested by authoritative Botanists from time to time. 



1. Corallocarpus epigceus, Trimen's Handbook of the Flora of 

 Ceylon, Vol. II, p. ii58, 1894. 



2. Bryonia apigoeaf Blume, Bijdr. 925=^^ Methria Rumphiana, 



3. Bryonia epig€ea,Jioii\. in ges. Naturf. Freunde, JSTeue Schr. IV 

 (1803)223. 



4. Bryonia epigcea^ W. & A. Prodromus, Vol. I, p. 346. 



5. Bryonia epigcea, Willd., Sp. PI. IV, 619. 



6. Bryonia glabra, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 104, and Flora. Br. Ind. Ill, 

 725. 



7. Bryonia palmata, Wallich's Cat., No. 6711 (D). 



8. Bryonia sinuata. Wall. Cat, No. 6711 (D), and Bentiiara and 

 Hooker' s Gen., PI. L 831. 



*■• JUand Hook of the I'lura of Ceylon, Yol. II , p. 258, 1894. 



