CORALLOCARPUS. CUCURBITACEJE (AUCT. COGNIAUX). 649 
viores angustioresque, divergentes; sinus inter lobos rotundati. Cirrhi 
filiformes, elongati, glabri, striati. Pedunculus communis masculus 
flexuosus, glaber, */,-1*/, cent. longus, apice subcapitato-3-6-florus ; 
pedicelli capillares, patuli, leviter villosi, 1-1 Y, mill. longi. Calycis 
tubus brevissime villosus, basi subacutus, 1 mill. longus, apice ?/, mill. 
latus; dentes erecti, anguste triangulares, '/,-?/, mill. longi. Petala 
dense papillosa, 1 mill. longa. Fructus coccineus, glaber, lzevis, basi 
rotundatus, 11-13 mill. longus, 6-7 mill. erassus ; rostrum crassiuscu- 
lum, 5-6 mill. longum. Semina turgida, basi non alata et oblique sub- 
emarginata, apice rotundata, distincte marginata, 4 mill. longa, 2 '/, 
mill. lata, 2 mill. crassa. 
In India orientali (Hügel n. 2749 in herb. Vindob. et sine n° in herb. 
Monac.; Heyne in herb. hort. Petrop.). 
4. C. epigæus (C. B. Clarke! in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 2. 
p. 628); foliis parvis, longule petiolatis, utrinque brevissime denseque 
villoso-subhirsutis, basi satis profunde emarginatis, angulatis vel plus 
minusve profunde 3-5-lobatis, lobis sæpius lobulatis obtusisque; pe- 
dunculo communi masculo gracili, recto, folio sæpius longiore ; floribus 
femineis Sæpissime solitariis, sub anthesi cernuis, erassiuscule pedun- 
culatis; fructu ovoideo, basi leviter attenuato; seminibus fulvis, lævi- 
bus, distincte marginatis. — Bryonia epigæa Rottl.! in Nov. Act. Soc. 
nat. scrut. Berol. 4, p. 212 (1803) ; Willd. Spec. pl. 4, p. 619; Spreng. 
Syst. veget. 3, p. 16; Wight et Arn. Prodr. 1, p. 346; Wight Icon. 
tab. 503 ; Walp. Repert. 2, p. 198; non Bl. — B. glabra Roxb. Hort. 
Beng. p. 104, FI. Ind. 3, p. 725. — B. palmata Wall. ! List, n. 6711 D, 
non Lin. — Æchmandra epigæa Arn. in Hook. Journ. of Bot. 3, 
p. 274: Rem. Syn. mon. fasc. 2, p. 33; Thw. Enum. pl. Zeyl. p. 125: 
Dalz. et Gibs, Bombay Fl. p. 100. — Rhynehocarpa epigæa Naud.! in 
Ann. se. nat. ser. 4, v. 16, p. 178. 
Radix erassa, napiformis. Caulis gracillimus, scandens, glaber. 
levis, angulato-sulcatus, 1-1 */, metr. longus. Petiolus gracilis, stria- 
tus, brevissime villosus, 2-3 cent. longus. Folia ambitu late suborbi- 
Cularia, supra pallide viridia, subtus subcinerea, 2-4 '/, cent. longa, 
2/,-5 cent. lata, in prima juventute integra vel angulata, mox magis 
magisque lobata, demum quasi dissecta; sinus inter lobos rotundati, 
basilaris rotundatus, 1 cent. latus profundusque. Cirrhi subfiliformes, 
elongati, striati, subglabri. Pedunculus communis masculus glaber, 
Sulcatus, 4-6 cent. longus, apice subcapitato-5-15-florus ; pedicelli fili- 
formes, patuli, 1-2 mill. longi. Calycis tubus brevissime sparseque 
