602 DICOTYLEDONE.E. MELOTERIA. | 
masculi numerosi, capillares, glabri, 1-3 cent. longi, interdum brevis- 
sime racemosi. Calycis tubus glaber vel puberulus, 2-2 */, mill. lon- . 
eus, 1!/,-2 mill. latus, basi leviter attenuatus ; dentes subulati, 1 mill. 
longi. Corolla alba, puberula, fauce dense villosa, segmentis erecto- 
patulis, ovato-oblongis, apice acutis, 3-4 mill. longis. Staminum fila- 
menta, obconica, '/,-*/, mill. longa; antherz 1 '/, mill. longae, connec- 
tivo angusto, brevissime producto, demum apice plus minusve bipar- 
tito. Peduneulus fructiferus capillaris, 1-4 cent. longus. Fructus 
elaber, 7-10 mill. erassus. Semina cinerea vel fulva, leevia, obscure 
marginata, basi leviter attenuata, 6 mill. longa, 3 '/,-4 mill. lata. 
In India boreali (Royle in herb. hort. Petrop.); in Silhet (Wallich 
n. 6706 A-C in herb. Lin. Soc. et Monac.); in mont. Khasia altit. 
1400-1700 metr. (Hook. f. et Thomson in herb. Kew., Mus. Par. 
DC., Berol., Vindob., Lugd.-Bat.); in Sikkim, altit. 300-1700 metr. 
(Hooker f. in herb. Kew., Mus. Par., Berol.); in Darjeeling (Clarke 
in herb. Kew.); in Kumaon (Strachey et Winterbottom n. 2 in herb: 
Brux. et Kew.); in Assam (Griffith in herb. Kew. ; Jenkins n. 592 m 
herb. Kew.); in Pegu (Mac Lelland in herb. Kew.); in Cachar (Kee- 
nann in herb. Kew.); ad Almorah (Madden n. 636 in herb. Edin.);1 
 Dengalia orientali (Griffith n. 2528 in herb. Kew., Mus. Par., Berol., 
hort. Petrop., n. 2529 in herb. Kew. et Mus. Par.); in Java (Blume 
in herb. Lugd.-Bat. et Brux. ; Zollinger n. 696, in herb. Francav. et 
Bogor.); ad mont. Tjikænj (Scheffer in herb. Bogor.) ; in Moluctæ ad 
Ambon-Urai et ad Bæræ (Teysmann in herb. Bogor.). | 
8, triloba Clarke! in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 2, p. 626. — Petiolus 
'/,-1*/, cent. longus. Folia profunde trilobato-sagittata, lobis lance” 
latis, basilaribus divergentibus. — Bryonia biflora Ham.! in Wall. 
List, n. 6707. 
In Bengalia orientali ad fluv. Soorma (Griffith n. 2530 in herb. Kev. 
et Mus. Par.); in penins. Malacca (Griffith n. 2559 in herb. Kew.); M 
Philippina (Cuming n. 1917 in herb. Kew.). 
29. M. cordifolia (Hook. f.! in Oliv. FL trop. Afr., 2, P- 56 
foliis membranaceis, integris, ovato-cordatis, supra scabris, subtus 
glabris lævibusque, integerrimis vel minutissime remoteque dent 
latis; floribus minutis; calyce anguste campanulato, dentibus MIN” 
tissimis ; staminum filamentis filiformibus, brevibus; antheris oblong? 
rectangularibus. 
Caulis elongatus, ramosus, 1 mill. erassus, suleatus, ad nodos 
ter villosus. Petiolus gracilis, sulcatus, glaber vel sparse pilos 
levi- 
