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of female flower solitary, longer that the leaf-petiole. Fruit oblong, 

 glabrous, white, *5-*75 in. long. Seeds ovate, attenuate at the base. 

 Ser. in DC. Prodr. Ill, 313 ; Nand. in Ann. Sc. Nat., Ser. 4, XVI, 169 

 t. 2 ; Hance Suppl. Hongkong Flora, 104 ; Kurz in Jonrn. As. Soc. 

 Beng. XLVI, Pt. II, 105 ; Clarke in Hook. fil. Flor. Br. Ind. II, 626. 

 Bryonia geminata, Blurne Bijd. 924; Ser. in DC. Prodr. Ill, 305; 

 Roem. Syn., fasc. II, 35 ; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I, Pt. I, 659. B. tenella, 

 Roxb. Flor. Ind. Ill, 725. Aechmandra indica, Arn. in Hook. Journ. 

 Bofc. Ill, 274 ; Wight in Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. VIII, 267 ; Miq. 

 Flor. Ind. Bat. I, Pt. I, 658. 



Selangore ; King's Collector 360. Distrib. British India, Cochin- 

 China, Philippines, Hongkong. 



3. Melothria marginata, Cogn. in DC. Mon. Phan. III. 593. 

 Stem creeping, rooting at the nodes, angular, sulcate, glabrous ; the 

 tendrils slender, simple, puberulous. Leaves ovate-cordate or more or 

 less 3-lobed, acute ; the edges minutely and distantly denticulate ; 

 the upper surface coarsely and distinctly and the lower minutely and 

 more closely strigose, the nerves on both pubescent ; length 1-1*25 in., 

 breadth 1-1*75 in. ; petiole 75— 1'5 in., tomentose. Male flowers umbellate 

 on a* filiform few-flowered peduncle shorter than the petiole, glabrous; 

 the pedicels erect, *2-*3 in. long ; the calyx broadly campanulate, pubes- 

 cent, its teeth subulate. Petals villose, yellow ; anthers glabrous, in- 

 appendiculate. Female flower solitary on a peduncle '5 in. long. Fruit 

 narrowly cylindric, beaked, tapering to the base, velvety, '75 in. long, 

 its peduncle filiform ; seeds 6-8, foveolate. Bryonia marginata, Blume 

 Bijdr. 924 ; Ser. in DC. Prodr. Ill, 305 ; Roem. Syn., fasc. II, p. 36 ; 

 Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I, Pt. II, 660. B. epigsea, Blume Bijdr. 924; Ser. in 

 DC. Prodr. Ill, 306. Aechmandra Blumeana, Roem. Syn. fasc. II, p. 33 ; 

 Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I, Pt. II, 657. Melothria Bumphiana, Scheff. Ann. 

 Jard. Bot. Buitenz. I, 25. Cerasiocarpum ? Maingayi, Clarke in Hook, 

 fil. Flor. Br. Ind. Ill, 629. 



Malacca; Maingay (Kew Distrib.) 1268. Perak ; King's Collector 

 874. Distrib. Java and Sumatra. 



Var. heterophylla, Cogn. in DC. Mon. Phan. Ill, 594. Leaves quite 

 entire, ovate-cordate or oblong-sub-hastate, scabrous above, almost smooth 

 beneath but hairy on the nerves. Bryonia heterophylla, Blume Bijdr. 

 925 ; Wall. Cat. 6701 ; Roem. Syn., fasc. II, 35. B. Blumei, Ser. in DC. 

 Prodr. Ill, 305; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I, Pt. I, 659. Cerasiocarpum? 

 penangense, Clarke in Hook. fil. Flor. Br. Ind. Ill, 629. 



Penang; Wallich ; Curtis 1928. Distrib. Java. 



NOTE. 

 There are in the Calcutta Herbarium specimens of several species of Melothria 



