CUCURBITACE. 525 
diecious, yellow, small or large ; male peduncles in fully developed 
_ individuals paired, one 1-flowered, caducous, without bract, one 
 tacemed, with bracts ‘paggi or obsolete; female Peg wi 
_ gated, 1-flowered, bra Sepals 5, connate ina shortly campan 
late calyx-tube RE by a horizontal scale; lobes practi 
_ Petals 5, connate below in a epee tube, upper half of 
_ petals free, revolute. ¢ Stamens 5, four approximated in 2 pairs; 
_ filaments free, subulate ; are te straight, narrow, oblong, 1-celled. 
? Carpels 8, connate in an oblong ovary; ovules many, hori- 
_ stigmas. Frwit an ellipsoid,-obtuse, green, subcylindric, vertically 
a tibbed berry. Seeds many, small, obovoid, compressed, smoo h. 
‘884. Tauapranrua cAncaraTa C. B. Clarke. T. dubia F. B. I. 
ii. 681. : 
E. Bengal ; et 
_ A large climber 
372. Mukia Ar 
E Herbaceous, scabrid climbers ; Jeaves waa nerved, corte: 
z angled but not tesely ae petioled and sessile on same 
: i a ld imple. owers small, yellow, monoecious, us 
=e aa ee not produced. ¢ Gorges 2 or 3, con- 
-celled, ovoid, hispid ovary, with an annular disk ; 
Ovules few, horizontal, on 2-8 vertical placentas; style thick, its 
4 hes with 2-3 stigmatic lobes. Fruit a small, globose berry. 
Meds few, ovoid, compressed, ie ae arid 
8. Muxia scapre rn.; 623; E. D. M. 791. 
Bryonia scabrella F. I. iii. 724. 
In all the provinces. 
A slender scabrid climber. Vernac. Bilari. 
373. Bryonia Linn. 
debe; leaves petioled, palmately lobed or 
Flowers small, yell llowish, moneecious ; 
short-pedicelled, in same axil. Sepals 
: ag in a widely campanulate calyx; lobes of limb small. 
: », connate in a 5-partite corolla. ¢ Stamens . in- 
