_ Actinostemma.) CUCURBITACE. 527 
888/2. Var. rritopa F. B. I. ii. 626. 
. Bengal. 
A climber. 
375. Zehneria Endl. 
___ Herbaceous climbers; leaves petioled, petioles short or long, 
kina polymorphous, toothed, angled, or deeply lobed; tendrils 
simple. Flowers small, yellowish, moncecious or diwcious ; males 
_ in peduncled corymbs; females short-peduncled, solitary, or less 
_ often subeorymbose; bracts small or obsolete. Sepals 5, connate 
Ina tubular calyx; lobes of limb small. Petals 5, triangular, con- 
hate only at the base. 3 Stamens 8, inserted deep in the calyx- 
tube; filaments glabrous or pubescent; anthers free, all 2-celled, 
two 2-celled and one 1-celled; cells curyed or sigmoid, connec- 
‘ tive often papillose at top. ¢ Carpels 8, connate in a globose or 
' oblong, glabrous or hairy, 1-celled ovary ; ovules many, horizontal, 
_ 03 vertical placentas ; style cylindric, its base surrounded by an 
_ annular disk, its stigmatic apex 3-lobed. Fruit a globose, ellip- 
_ “id, or cylindric succulent ber erry. 
: — longer than the auricles at base of leaf-blade ; pgs _ 
te, rugose when dry ana. 
a Pee usually shorter sain the auricles; fruit cylindric, | a rt 
bellata. 
899, ZEHNERIA Hooxerrana Arn.; F. B. I. ii. 624. 
890. ZeHNERIA UMBELLATA Thwaites; F. B. I. ii. 625; E. D. 
Z. 182. ewsriien smbellary B I, .ii:. 710, 
In every provin i 
A climber, bee Kudari; Hind. Tarali; Santal. At’. 
376. Actinostemma Griff. 
3 A weak herbaceous climber; leaves petioled, deep-cordata..t 
q ‘state, elongate, much- toothed; tendrils simple and 2-fid. 
i » Moneecious, in lax axillary panicles, mostly male, 
2 in females few near the base of the peduncle. Sepals 5, — 
_ ;_ “Small, rotate calyx ; lobes linear-lanceolate. Petals 5, cauda 
; lneeolate, connate at the base. 3 Stamens 5, free, their connec- 
ier, » papillose on one side, with a straight, oblong, single 
--uther-cell on the other. 9? Carpels 2, connate in a su se, 
