Rhynchocarpa?^ CllCUrbitaceCE. 257 



12 forms. In C. P. 3506 they are very deeply trifid with oblong-linear 

 diverging segments. 



The name ' Telaberiya,' S., has also been given me for this. 



II. MELOTHRIA, I. 



Tendrils simple, fl. monoecious, male and fern, often from 

 same axils, cal.-limb campanulate, segm. 5, setaceous, pet. 5, 

 very slightly connected; male fl. : — stam. 3, inserted in middle 

 of cal.-limb, fill, short, anth. distinct, connective wide, produced 

 into a point, cells nearly straight ; fem. fl. : — ov. with 3 pla- 

 centas, style rather long, surrounded at base with annular 

 disk and 3 staminodes; fruit fusiform, beaked ; seeds numerous, 

 small, much compressed, smooth. — Sp. 25; 5 in Fl. B. Ind. 



UK. zeylanica, Clarke in Fl. B. Ind. ii. 626 (1879). 



Bryonia deltoidea, Arn. Pug. 19. sEchmandra deltoidea, Arn. in Hook. 

 Journ. Bot. iii. 274. M. deltoidea, Thw. Enum. 124 (non Benth.). Cogn. 

 1. c. 595. C. P. 2581, 3128, 1610. 



Fl. B. Ind. ii. 626. 



Stems very slender, striate, glabrous; 1. i|~3 in., deltoid 

 or triangular, with a wide, truncate and often hastate base, 

 without other lobes, acuminate, distantly denticulate, more or 

 less scabrous with white scales above, smooth or slightly hairy 

 on veins beneath, petiole \-\ in., slender; fl. on long slender 

 ped., 1-4 from axil ; cal. very hairy at the throat, segm. 

 recurved; pet. oval, puberulous, spreading; fem. fl. : — ov. fusi- 

 form, the cal.-tube prolonged above it into a very narrow long 

 neck; fruit i^-ijin., much tapering to both ends, cylindrical, 

 with a sharp point or beak, and 6 slight vertical ridges, green ; 

 seeds horizontal, very much compressed, smooth, whitish. 



Moist region ; rare in the low country, common in the montane zone 

 up to 7000 ft. Fl. Jan.-April; cream-coloured. 

 Endemic. 



12. RHYNCHOCARPA, Schrad. 



Annual, tendrils simple, fl. monoecious, very small, male in 

 slender racemes, fem. solitary; cal.-limb campanulate, segm. 5, 

 subulate ; pet. 5, spreading, connate into a rotate cor. ; male 

 fl. : — stam. 3, inserted in cal.-limb, anth. distinct, connective 

 slightly prolonged, cells straight; fem. fl. : — ov. ovoid, beaked, 

 no disk, stigmas 2 or 3; fruit ovoid, strongly beaked; seeds 

 few, smooth, narrowly winged. — Sp. 5 ; 1 in Fl. B. Ind. 



Cogniaux sinks this Genus under Kedrostis, Medik. 



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