600 DICOTYLEDONEÆ. MELOTHRIA . 
8, major. Petiolus satis robustus, 5-8 cent. longus. Folia ovata vel 
.ovato-suborbicularia, 10-12 cent. longa, 8-10 cent. lata, leviter 3-5-lo- 
bata, apice acuta vel obtusa. 
In Japonia ad Yokohama (Wawra n. 1596 in herb. Vindob.). 
c. Fructus globosus. Spec. 26-30. 
26. M. capillacea; foliis membranaceis, late deltoideis, supra 
scabris, subtus glabris lævibusque et ad nervos sparse asperis, lobis 
basilaribus acutis, margine minutissime remoteque denticulatis; flo- 
ribus minutissimis ; calycis dentibus minutis; antherarum loculis su- 
perne divergentibus, connectivo lato. — Bryonia capillacea Schum. 
et Thonn. ! Pl. Guin. p. 430; Walp. Rep. 2, p. 198, Rœm. Syn. fasc. 2, 
p. 36. — Melothria triangularis Benth.! in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 861: 
Hook. f. in Oliv. Fl. trop. Afr. 2, p. 562. 
Caulis filiformis, angulato-suleatus, puberulus, ad nodos villosus. 
Petiolus filiformis, striatus, glaber, 1-2 cent. longus. Folia utrinque 
læte viridia, acuta et breviter mucronata, 3-4 cent. longa, 4-5 cent. 
lata; sinus basilaris latissime rotundatus, */,-*/, cent. profundus. 
Cirrhi capillares, breves, glabri. Pedunculus masculus capillaris, gla- 
ber vel sparse pilosus, 1-2 cent. longus. Calycis tubus campanulatus. 
1 mill. longus et latus. Corolla 2 mill. lata. Pedunculus femineus ta- 
pillaris, 2-6 cent. longus. Fructus glaber, 6-8 mill. crassus. Semina 
cinerea, oblonga, immarginata vel obscure marginata, 3 */, mill. longa. 
1 */, mill. lata. 
In Guinea (Thonning in herb. hort. Petrop.); in Congo (Ch. Smith 
n. 58 in herb. Brit. Mus.); in Nigritia (Vogel n. 203 in herb. Kew.): 
in Fernando-Po (Vogel n. 203 in herb. Kew.; Mann n. 418 in herb. 
Kew.); in Angola, distr. Golungo Alto (Welwitsch n. 827 in herb. 
Brit. Mus.); in Africa centrali, ad Unyoro, lat. 2'/,° N. (Grant m 
herb. Kew.). 
27. M. Cunninghamii (Benth.! Fl. Austral. 3, p. 320); foliis 
tenuiter membranaceis, anguste deltoideis vel subhastatis, Supra sca 
bris vel scabriusculis, subtus glabris lævibusque, margine denticulato- 
subulatis, lobis basilaribus obtusis vel subacutis; floribus parvis ; e 
lyce late campanulato, dentibus elongatis; staminum filaments 
filiformibus, elongatis; antheris subglobosis. — F. Muell. Fragm. 6; 
p. 188, v. 7, p. 62. — Zehneria Cunninghami F. Muell.! in Hook. 
Kew. Journ. ot Bot. 8, p. 51. 
