1877.] Knowledge of the Burmese Flora, 105 



Leaves polymorphic, almost chartaccous, glaljrous, Z. umbellata. 



Siibg. 2. Zehneria, Endl. Berry small, globose. Seeds few, compressed-oblong. 

 Leaves herbaceous, flaccid, cordate, repand-toothed, Z. Hooheriana. 



1. Z. UMBELLATA, Thw. in Ceyl. PI. 125. (Bryonia timhellata, 

 Klein in Willd. sp. pi. III. 618 ; WA. Prod. I. 345 ; Momordica umhella- 

 ta, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. III. 710 ; Karivia umhellata, Arn. in Hook. Journ. Bot. 

 IIL 275; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I/l. 661). 



Hab. Common, not only in cultivated lands, in bushes, hedges, &c., 

 in and around villages, but still more so in the mixed forests and savannahs, 

 all over Burma, up to 3000 £t. elevation.— Fl. H. and RS. ; Fr. CS. 



2. Z. HooKERiATfA, WA. in Hook. Journ. Bot. III. {Bryonia Hoo- 

 keriana, WA. Prod. I. 345 ; Wight 111. t. 105). 



Hab. Ava, Kbakyen hills. — Fr. May. 



Melothria, L. 



1. M. Indica, Lour. Fl. Coch. I. 43 ; DC. Prod. III. 313 ; Naud. 

 in Ann. d. so. nat. 4 ser. XVI. 169. t. 2. {Bryonia tenella^ Roxb, Fl. Ind. 

 III. 725 ; AecTimandra Indica, Arn. in Hook. Journ. of Bot. III. 274 ; 

 Cucumis murinus viridis, Rumph. Herb. Amb. V. t. 171. £. 2 ?). 



Hab. In hedges near Chittagong. — Fl. Fr. Octob. 



Rhyncliocarpa, Schrad. 



Conspectus of Species. 



All parts more or less pubescent ; leaves cordate with rounded basal lobes ; berry 



striate, hairy, B. rostrata. 



Leaves deltoid with spreading acute basal lobes, rough above ; berries smooth and 

 glabrous, ■, R. deltoiclea. 



1. R. EOSTEATA, (Bryonia rostrata, Rottl. Nov. Act. Berol. IV. 

 212 ; DC. Prod. III. 304; WA. Prod. I. 346 ; Bryonia pilosa, Roxb. Fl. 

 Ind. III. 726). 



Hab. Ava, Irawaddi valley near Pagha myo (Wall. Cat. 6713). — Fl. 

 Sept. 



2. R. ? DELTOiDEA, Kurz MS. 



Hab. Upper Tenasserim, in Attaran (Dr. Brandis) ; Pegu and Prome 

 Irrawaddi valley. — Fl. Fr. Sept., Octob. 



Gomphogyne, Griff. 

 Conspectus of Species, 

 Capsule club-shaped, rather narrow ; seeds usually 4, about a line long, rounded, ob- 

 scurely tubercled-wrinkled, , G. heterosperrna. 



Capsule broadly turbinate : seeds usually 2, about 3 lin. long, oblong-4-angular, rough 

 with tubercled margins, O. cissoides. 



1. G. HETEEOSPEEMA, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1871. 58. 

 (Zanonia heterosperrna, Wall. Cat. ; Micp Fl. Ind. Bat. I/l. 683 ; Alsomi- 

 tra heterosperrna, Roem. Syn. Monog. 11. 118). 

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