516 BENGAL PLANTS. [Hodgsonia. 
Flowers white ; tendrils simple....................se0000+ 
- Flowers yellow ; tendrils 2-3-cleft .......0cccc.ecccacseceeeee Rei 
tAnther-cells straight, or, if curved (Bryonia), not conduplicate nor 
sigmoid :-—[p. 515] i 
Flowers large, deep-yellow ; male racemes stout ....-. : 
Flowers small, pale-yellow ; male pedicels or racemes slender:— — 
Male and female pedicels alike 1-flowered, clustered :— Phe 
Tendrils simple . ---Mukia. 
Tendrils 2-fid...... .-Bryonla. 
Male flowers in corymbs, umbels, or racemes :— 
usually corymbose or subumbellate .........1..:se0+00008+* 
*Anthers 1-celled, cells straight; stamens always free; ovules alvn® 
pendulous; flowers small, the female ones in panicles or many-flowered : 
acemes :—[p. 515] . 
Leaves not divided into separate leaflets Actinostemm® ; 
Leaves pedately divided into 3-5 leaflets Gynostemm* 
360. Hodgsonia Hook. f. & Thoms. ; 
d, long- i 
es iD 
A large climber; leaves coriaceous, palmately lobe 
petioled; tendrils 2-3-fid. Flowers large, dicecious; males” 
. Si pals 5, 
long racemes ; bracts oblong, entire; females solitary. 
laterally attached. 
859. _Hopeson1a HETEROCLITA Hook. f. & Thoms.; F. B. 1-2. 606. ‘ 
Trichosanthes heteroclita F. I. iii. 705. 
ittagong. 
An enormous climber, stem sometimes 100 feet lone 
Vernac. Gulur. 
