256 Cucurbitacece. \Zehneria. 



fruit globose or ovoid, pulpy; seeds numerous, ovoid, smooth. 

 — Sp. 15; 3 in Fl. B. Ind. 



Cogniaux includes this under Melothria. 

 L. slightly cordate ; fl. monoecious ; fruit globular. 1. Z. HoOKERIANA. 

 L. very deeply cordate at base ; fl. dioecious ; fruit 

 narrowly ovoid 2. Z. hastata. 



1. Z. Hookeriana, Am. in Hook. Jonm. Bot. iii. 275 (1841). 

 Melothria perpusilla, Cogn. 1. c. 607. Thw. Enum. 125. C. P. 1613. 

 Fl. B. Ind. ii. 624. Wight, Ic. t. 758 {Bryonia maysorensis). 



Stems slender, cylindrical, glabrous, 1. if-2^ in., broadly 

 ovate, subcordate or nearly truncate at base, acuminate, acute 

 at apex, distantly dentate, thin, slightly rough above with 

 minute flat scales, paler and quite glabrous beneath, petiole 

 \-\\ in.; fl. monoecious, male 3-6, pedicellate, in short stalked 

 racemes, fern, shortly stalked from same axils; cal.-segm. very 

 short, setaceous ; pet. ovate, acute, slightly hairy within ; ov. 

 globose, style 3-fid ; fruit § in., globose, smooth, crimson ; 

 seeds 30-40, ovoid, very much flattened, smooth. 



Moist region, 2000-4000 ft.; common. Fl. Jan.; pale yellow. 



Also in India and Java. 



Cogniaux calls the Ceylon plant var. sitbtruncata. 



2. Z. hastata, Miq. Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. pt. 1, 656 (1855). HLawudu- 

 kekiri, S. Peyppudal, T. 



Bryonia umbellata, Moon Cat. 67. Z. umbellata, Thw. Enum. 125 ; 

 Trim. Syst. Cat. 38. C. P. 1619, 3506. 



Fl. B. Ind. ii. 625 {Z. umbellata). Rheede, Hort. Malab. viii. t. 26. 



Root with pendulous tubers, stems very long, slender, 

 angular, glabrous, tendrils very long, young parts puberulous; 

 1. 3-4 in., very variable, usually triangular - ovate, with a 

 cordato-hastate base, the lobes often overlapping, but some- 

 times prolonged into oblong or even linear divaricate lobes, 

 acute, distantly denticulate, slightly rough with scales and 

 bright green above, smooth and glaucous beneath, scabrous 

 on margin, petiole \ in., cylindrical, twisted ; fl. dioecious, 

 male on slender ped., numerous, crowded in a close, umbellate, 

 pedunculate corymb much shorter than 1., fern, solitary ; 

 cal.-segm. minute ; pet. very short, triangular ; ov. glabrous, 

 10-ribbed, style stout, stigmas very large; fruit about \\ in., 

 oblong-ovoid, cylindrical, tapering to a point but not 

 beaked, smooth, red ; seeds ovoid, scarcely compressed, 

 smooth, white. 



Moist low country; very common. Fl. June, July; yellowish-white. 



Throughout Tropical Asia. 



Extremely variable in the shape of the leaves. Cogniaux distinguishes 



