7 // K P I ; mo NO us PLANTS OF BOMB A F, 485 



9. ..j.vci7/'M.:..'f,.t/Li ej.u(./iti.<:.. AtJioiL. (V^ide Hooker'-; Jo'irnal of 

 Botany, Vol. Ill, pp. 271-274, 1841.) 



10. \^T^chmandra epigcea, Wight's Icones. t. 503. 



li. ^chmandra epigcea, Dalzell and Gibson's Bombay Flora^ 

 p. 100. 



Sucii is the formidable arra,y of the synonyms. 



Following Hooker /2Z., I have named the wlant I am describino- 



lorallocarpiis epigcea instead of the more correct modern combination 



Jorallocarptcs epigmus used in the " Ke^Y Index/' and by Trimen in 



his recent Flora of Ceylon. Unfortunately our botanical nomenclature 



as not as yet reached that state, of grammatical purity which should 



absolutely discard the combination of a generic name with a masculine 



termination and a specific name with a female termination, or vice versa. 



In naming the plant I am describing, I have adopted the terminology as 



given in our standard work on Indian Botany, namely, Hooker's Flora 



": British India, without attempting to question its grammatic pro- 



p/iety ; and I did so long before Trimen's Flora of Ceylon or the Kew 



Index had made its appearance. Dr. Djonock in his " Pharmaco- 



graphia Indica " adopts it, and I have adopted it accordingly. 



Dr. G. A. Walker- Aruott, in his very valuable contribution to 

 Hooker's Journal of Botany in 1841, cited' above, was the first anion o- 

 Indian Botanists to acknowledge Schrader's attempt !o subdivide the 

 Cucurbitacecej in anything like a scientific way. Schrader's arrange- 

 ment, then new, was published in the " Linnsea," XII, p. 401. The 

 stigma in Bryonia scabra (var. E. M.) has the style trifid, and, says 

 Arnott, '' the stigma precisely as in Bryonia dioica." 1 have already 

 observed that *' the connective is small.'' Arnott observes the connective 

 in the species belonging to the genus Bryonia is " sinuated and lobed," 

 -nd that the anther-cells are placed on the back margin of the coanec- 

 ve. Arnott, moreover, observes that the style in genus Bryonia is 

 " surrounded at the base with a thick, annular, fleshy, usually lobed 

 'isk." Following Hooker (C. B. Clarke's Article, cited above, in 

 • Flor. Br. Ind."), and, judging from niy own experience, I have said 

 that the disk is absolutely absent. 



Historically, the formation of the germs, jEohmandra, of which the 

 plant I am describing formed a species under the name of yEchmandra 

 qngma^ was th'^ i-nspH nf n-,,. classification originally suggested by 



