526 BENGAL PLANTS. [Bryonia. 
serted deep in the calyx-tube; anthers free, one 1-celled, two 
2-celled; cells curved or sigmoid, not conduplicate, connective not 
ed 0 
”D con: y 
ovules many, horizontal, on 3 parietal placentas ; style slender, — 
3-fid at the apex. Fruit a globose berry. Seeds — 
oblong or ovoid, compressed. 
RYONIA Laciniosa Linn.; F. I. iii. 728; F. B. L ii. 622; 
E. D. B. 904. 
In all the provinces. 
A slender, nearly glabrous climber. Hind. Gargunam) 
Beng. Mala 
374. Melothria Linn. 
Herbaceous climbers ; leaves deltoid, truncate or hastate, entire 
or 3-lobed, often punctate, petioled; tendrils simple or “1 
Flowers small, white, moncecious or, rarely, dicecious, males and 
females often. in the same axil; male pedicels 
la. 
inserted in middle of calyx-tube; anthers free, two 
1-celled; cells straight, simple, sublateral, connective P: 
¢ Carpels 8, connate in an oblong, 1-celled ovary; ovwes = 
horizontal, on 3 vertical placentas; style long ; i s, 
globose. Fruit a globose or fusiform, somewhat 
Seeds numerous, small, oblong, much compressed; 
argined. 
Male flowers clustered in the leaf-axils; fruit ellipsoid, pointed vo 
Male peeabie in distant clusters on long racemes ; fruit g obose, 
rate, obtus 
eaves und or slightly 3-lobed .........-seseesereeeeeecte et 
Leaves deeply cut in cate lobes 
ply to long, narrow, divari sssicoreee triloba. 
887. Metornria mpica Lour.; F. B. I. ii. 626. Bryon tens 
FL. iti, 725. 
E. Bengal ; oe 
A slender climber. ee 
888. Metorunra revcocarra Cogn. M. odorata F. B- ue 
E. Be ngal. : 
A. climber. 
