1877.] Knowledge oftJie Burmese Flora, J>7 



Zehneria. Male flowers usually corymbose. Filaments elongate ; anthers orbi- 

 cular, the connective not produced, villous on the back. Berry shortly peduncled. 



Melothria. Male flowers usually racemose. Anthers almost sessile, the connec- 

 tive produced beyond the anther-cells and usually 2-lobcd. Berry usually long- and 

 slender-peduncled. 



X X Disk at the base of the style absent or obsolete. 



Ehynchocarpa. Ovary with 1 — 3 placentas. Berry few-seeded, beaked. Con- 

 nective produced beyond the anther-cells. 



Ctenolepis. Calyx-tube short, the lobes subulate. Ovary with 2 or 3 placentas. 

 Fruit oblique, few-seeded. Seeds concave-convex. Petiole furnished with a basilar 

 pectinate leaflet. Connective not produced. 



Trih. 11. GBEMOSPEBMJE. Anthers 1-celled. Ovary 1- or 3- 

 celled ; ovules 2 to many, suspended. 



* Seeds not ivinged. 



Suhtrib. 1. GYNOSTEMME^. Stamens 3 or 5, the filaments free or united. 

 Ovary 3-celled, with 1 or 2 pendulous ovules in each cell. 



Gynostemma. Petals lanceolate. Stamens 5, the filaments united. Berry globu- 

 lar. Leaves pedately 5-foliolate. 



Subtrib. 2. GOMPHOGYNE^. Stamens 5 ; filaments free. Ovary 1-celled, with 

 2 — 6 ovules suspended from, or near, the summit of the cell. 



Actinostemma. Petals caudate-acuminate. Fruit almost globose, dehiscing by an 

 apical opercle. Leaves hastate-cordate. 



GoMPHOGYKE. Petals oblong, erose. Fruit turbinate, broadly 3-angular and 3- 

 valved at the apex. Leaves pedately 5 — 7-foliolate. 



* * Seeds ivinged, 



Subtrib. 3. ZAJSfONIE^. Stamens 5 ; filaments free ; anthers oblong. Ovary 

 1-celled, with 3 thick parietal placentas ; ovules numerous. Fruit dry, 1-celled, with a 

 broad open 3-angular mouth at the top. 



Alsomitra. Calyx-lobes 5. Stamens 4, perfect. Styles 3, the stigmas 2-lobed. 

 Leaves 3-foliolate. 



Zanonia. Calyx-lobes 3. Styles 3, 2-cleft. Leaves simple. 



Hodgsonia, Hf. and Th. 



1. H. HETEKOCLITA, Hf. and Th. in Linn. Proc. Nov. 1853 ; H£. 

 111. Him. PL t. 1—3 ; Fl. d. serr. t. 1262-63 -, {TricTiosantJies lieteroclita, 

 Eoxb. FL Ind. III. 705). 



Hab. Not mifrequent in the tropical forests, especially along choungs, 

 of the eastern slopes of the Pegu Yomah, and in Martaban, up to 2000 ft. 

 elevation j also Chittagong. — FL Fr. March, April. 



Trichosanthes, L. 



Consjpectus of Species. 

 Subg. 1. Eu- Trichosanthes. Petals conspicuously fringed. Male flowers race- 

 mose. 



* Male racemes ivithont or with minute bracts, the bracts hardly a line long and 



inconspicuous. Seeds imbedded in a red or yellowish pulp, grooved or tuber" 

 cled, with thicJcened crenate or waved margins. 

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