Zehnena.] CtlClirbitaceCB. 255 



white hair ; 1. variable in size, usually 3-4 in., but often only 

 1 in. or less, deltoid-ovate, very deeply cordate at base, with a 

 Avide sinus, and the rounded lobes often overlapping, acute or 

 obtuse at apex, rather shallowly 5-lobed, coarsely dentate- 

 serrate, usually scabrous with stiff hairs on both sides, petiole 

 fully half as long as 1., cylindrical, very hispid ; fl. very small, 

 male on pilose ped. as long as cal., fern, nearly sessile ; cal. 

 hain^, segm. linear, pet. ovate, ciliate, a little longer than cal.- 

 segm.; berry about \ in., broadly ovoid, apiculate, with a few 

 scattered hairs, scarlet ; seeds horizontal, closely packed, oval, 

 compressed, bluntly muriculate on the sides, enveloped in a 

 pulpy envelope. 



Low country up to 3000 ft.; common. Fl. all the year; yellow. 

 Fruit scarlet. 



Tropics of the Old World generally. 



In the dry region this is often extremely harsh and hispid, but Her- 

 mann's original specimens have glabrous leaves, as described by 

 Linnaeus ; the scabrous-leaved specimens were calle I Bryo?iia cordifolia 

 by him (see under Cephalandra). Leaves used as an expectorant. 



M. leiosperma, Wight, ex Roem. Sy?iops. iii. 46 (1846). 

 Thw. Enum. 125. C. P. 2700. 

 FL B. Ind. ii. 623. 



Stems slender, hispid, young parts densely and softly 

 villous-hairy ; 1. 1^—3 in., broadly cordate-ovate, acute, slightly 

 3- or 5-lobed, strongly dentate, harshly hairy or scabrous 

 above, densely and softly hairy beneath, petiole short, \-\ in., 

 hispid-hairy; fl. on slender hairy ped.; cal. very shaggy with 

 long hair ; pet. hairy outside ; ov. thickly covered with very 

 long hair ; fruit under \ in., globose, very slightly hairy; seed 

 rather larger than in M. scabvella, less compressed, smooth on 

 the sides, conspicuously bordered. 



Montane zone, 4000-5000 ft.; very rare (?) Only found in Maturata. 

 Fl. Aug. 



Also in S. India. 



I have not met with this living. It is very near M. scabrella. 



10. ZEHNERIA, End/. 



Annual or perennial, tendrils simple, fl. monoecious or 

 dioecious, the male in racemes, the fern, solitary; cal. -limb 

 campanulate, segm. 5, small ; pet. 5, very slightly connate at 

 base; male fl.: — stam. 3, inserted low down in cal., anth. dis- 

 tinct, small, cells slightly curved; fern, fl.: — cal.-tube much 

 constricted above ov. into a narrow neck, placentas 3, style 

 surrounded at base by a lobed disk and 3 erect staminodes ; 



