628 DICOTYLEDONEÆ,. BLASTANJA, 
Herbæ annuæ, scabræ, prostratæ vel scandentes, Asiæ et Africe 
tropicæ incole, in herbariis nigrescunt. Folia digitato-3-5-loba vel 
-partita, bractea stipuliformi ovali vel rotundata, margine pectinatim 
eiliata, e quavis axilla foliorum orta, ramum spectante. Cirrhi sim- 
plices. Flores minuti. Fructus parvus, indehiscens, ruber. 
1. B. fimbristipula (Kotschy et Peyr.! Pl. Tin. p. 15, tab. 7, 
edit. Kanitz, p. 22); foliis majusculis, tripartitis, segmentis lateralibus 
ssepius plus minusve bilobatis, intermedio multo longiore; pedunculo 
masculo brevi; fructu globoso, cerasiformi. — Bryonia fimbristipula 
Fenzl! in Kotschy Iter Nubie. n. 205, 231 (1841), in Flora, 184 
p. 313; Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Æthiop., p. 250. — Zehneria cerasifor- 
mis Stocks! in Hook. Kew. Journ. of Bot. 4, p. 149; Walp. Ann. 
4, p. 855; Dalz. et Gibs. Bomb. Fl. p. 100. — Ctenopsis cerasiformis 
Naud.! in Ann. sc. nat. ser. 5, v. 6, p. 13. — Ctenolepis cerasiformis 
Hook. f.! in Oliv. Fl. trop. Afr., 2, p, 558; C. B. Clarke in Hook. Î. 
Fl. Brit. Ind. 2, p. 630. | 
Caulis subfiliformis, elongatus, ramosus, angulato-sulcatus, glabe 
vel sparse breviterque villoso-hirsutus. Petiolus gracillimus, sulcatus, 
breviter hirsutus demum albo-punctatus et scaberrimus, 2-4 cent. 
longus. Folia membranacea, utrinque sparse breviterque villoso-hit- 
suta, demum minute albo-punctata et scabra, 4-10 cent. longa lataque. 
segmentis acutis, ovato-oblongis vel lanceolatis, ad basim angustissr 
mis, margine denticulatis vel crenulato-lobatis, intermedio integro 
vel trilobato, sæpius longe mueronato. Bractea orbiculáris, reniformis 
vel dimidiata, ad basim leviter attenuata, breviter hirsuto-scabr. 
longe ciliata, 7-12 mill. longa. Cirrhi filiformes, elongati. sulcati, 
puberuli. Peduneulus communis masculus capillaris, glaber, 2-3 cent. 
longus, apice subeapitato-5-10-florus ; pedicelli patuli, ebracteatl, E 
mill. longi. Calycis tubus '/,-*/, mill. longus, ?/,-1 mill. latus; dentes 
patuli, */, mill. longi. Corollæ segmenta ovato-oblonga, obtusa, patula, 
"4-1 mill. longa. Fructus subsessilis, ruber, glaber, levis vel minute 
punctatus, sepius 2-spermus, 12-14 mill. crassus. Semina d 
oblonga, apice rotundata, basi subacuta, hinc valde concava, es 
convexa, levia, cinerea vel fusca, margine acuta, 9 mill. longa; 6 mil. 
lata, 1 '/, mill. crassa. 
In Senegambia loco haud indicato (Leprieur in herb. Fran 
Mus. Par.), ad Waco (Perrottet in herb. Mus. Par.), et ad mem 
(Leprieur in herb. Deless.); in Angola (herb. Mus. Par.); ip 
(J. Kirk in herb. Kew.); in Africa australi, 14°-19° lat. 5 que 
cav. et 
