OymnopetalMni] i;sv. cucurbitacb^. (C. B. Clarke.) 611 



3. GV1MNOPETA.I.VIHC, Am. 



Twining herls, tendrils usually simple or'2-fld. Leaves petioled, 6-angulai, 

 nearly entire or deeply lobed. Flowers white (or yellow ?), somewhat large ; 

 monoecious at least sometimes : male peduncles in fully developed plants 2 

 from each axil, the earlier 1-flowered, the later longer racemose, either often 

 suppressed ; bracts in the racemes persistent, large lanceolate incised or small ; 

 females 1-flowered usually in separate axUs. Maie: calyx-tube long, contracted 

 near the mouth, limb of 5 lanceolate segments; petals 5, not fimbriate on 

 margin ; stamens 3 ; anthers included, connate, elongate, 1-celled, 2-celled, 

 cells comduplicate ; rudiments of the ovary 1, or 3, small, linear. Femaib : calyx 

 and corolla as in the male ; ovary oblong ; style long, stigmas 3 short linear ; 

 ovules horizontal, many ; placentas 3, long, vertical. Frmt ovate-oblong, acute 

 at both ends. Seeds many or few, ellipsoid, compressed, margined, nearly 

 smooth. — DiBTRiB. Species 5 ; in India, China and Malaya. 



1. Gr. cocblnclilneiise, Xwz in Floi-a 1871, 395 ; leaves 5-angled or 

 lobed about half-way down, bracts to the male racemes prominent narrowed 

 at the base deeply lacerate at the apex. Bryonia cochin-chinensis. Lour. Fl. 

 Cochmeh. 595 ; 1)0. Prodr. iii. 305. Momordica tubiflora, ^oxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 

 711, not of Wallieh. Tripodanthera cochinchinensis, Roem. Si/kops. ii. 48. 

 Scotanthus tubiflorus, Navd. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 4, xvi. 172, t. 3. Tricho- 

 santhescucumerina, Wedl. Cat. 6690 E. T. ? Fatoa, Sam. in Wall. Cat. 6695. 

 Bryonia grandis, Wall. Cat. 6700 K, L. 



SiKxiM, up to 2000 ft. alt. Assam, Cachab and Bengal, common. Chota Naq- 

 POEE. Tenasseeim ; Heifer. — ^Disteib. Malaya, China. 



Stems slender, 5-angular, more or less seabrous-hairy. Leaves 2-3 in. diam., sca- 

 brous on both surfaces ; tendrils simple or 2-fid. Male racemed yedimcle sometimes 

 6-8 in., usually shorter ; bracts | in., ineise-serrate, lobes often again incised. Calyx- 

 tvhe I in., villous, closed by deflexed hairs within above the stamens. Rudiments pf 

 the oeary in the male flower 3. Petals \, in., ovate, entire or somewhat crenate. 

 Fruit 2 by f in., orange-red, somewhat scabrous, with 10 longitudinal ribs, pulp 

 greenish, not very succulent. Seeds i by ^ and A in. thick. , 



2. G. quinquelobuna, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 681 ; lea/ves subor- 

 bicular deeply 5-lobed lobes often subpinnatifid, bracts of the male racemes 

 oblong serrate. Scotanthus Porteanus, Navd. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 5, v. 25. 

 PQ-. heterophyllum, Sure in Trimen Journ. Bat. 1875, p. 326. 



Eangoov; McClelland. Pinanb; Porter. Malay Pbionsula ; Griffith. Singa- 

 POEE ; (?. Thomson. — Disteib. Malaya to Borneo. 



Agrees very clogely with the last species : the segments of the leaves are here 

 narrow, subsinuate, 3-fid or pinnatifidi but graduate towards the half-lobed form of 

 G. cochinchinensis.— Kxa^a G. hcterophyllmn agrees as described with the present 

 species ; it is perhaps a specimen with poorly developed male racemes. Kurz says 

 the flower is white, and quotes Bryotda heterophylla, Wall. Cat. 6711, which obscures 

 the whole matter, for that plant is Bryonia palmata. Wall, (now Cephalandra) while 

 B. heterophylla, WaU. No. 6704 (and of which there is a solitary sheet) differs al- 

 together from Mr. Kurz* description and is a Ceiramcarpwm, 



3. G. Wig'Iltli, Am. in Hook. Journ. Bat. iii. 278 ; leaves 6-angled or 

 -lobed, bracts of the male racemes small simple linear. Thwaites Enmn. 127. 

 Gr. zeylanicum. Am. I. c. Bryonia tubiflora, W. ^ A. Frodr. 347. Ouciirbita 

 umbeUata, WaU. Cat. 6724. 



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