612 Lxv. cucuEBiTACEJi. (C. B. Clarke.) IGymruypetalum. 



South Deccan Peninsitla ; Wight ; Canaea, Hohemacker No. 662. Ceylon, as- 

 cending to 5000 ft., Walker, Gardner, Thwaites. 



Leaves 2 in. diam., more or less pubescent on both surfaees, denticulate, lobes acute 

 or obtuse or ; petiole 1 in. Male racemed pedmicle 2 in. ; flowers crowded, sub- 

 umbellate; bracts J in., linear, pedicels often ^ in. ; peduncle of the female flowers 

 f in. Calyx-tube ^ in., slender, with scattered hairs or very pilose, lobes small. Petals 

 Jin. (yellow according to Ainott and Hook, f., white according to Thwaites). Rudiment 

 of the ovary in the male flower simple. Frmt 1^-2 in., red, more or less hairy, not 

 ribbed. Seeds i by i in., without corrugations or angles. — Bryonia tuUflora, Wight 

 No. 1118 has the calyx-tube pubescent and is nowise distinguishable from the Ceylon 

 plant as Mr. Thwaites surmised in Eimm. p. 127. 



4. G. integrrifolium, Kvrz in Flora 1871, 295 ; leaves cordate-ovate 

 nearly entire, male peduncles 1-flowered solitary without tracts. Cucumis in- 

 tegrifolius, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 724 ; Wall. Cat. 6730, Trichosanthes officinalis, 

 Wall. Cat. 6694. T. integrifolia, Kurz in Joum. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 99. . 



BengaIi ; Eoxbwgh. Ponlong (Iebawabdt estuary) ; Wdllich. 



Stem soabrid; tendrils undivided in Wallich's specimen (2-fid in Roxburgh's 

 drawing. Leaves 3 in. diam., very harshly scabrous above, densely villous beneath, 

 margin undulate scarcely denticulate ; petiole 1 in. Flowers moncecions, all solitary, 

 white; male peduncle IJ in., female peduncle ^ in. Male: calyx-tube elongate, 

 densely brown-villous, teeth 5, lanceolate ; corolla divided nearly to the base, lobes 

 obovate, entire, yellow-veined, pubescent. Female : calyx and corolla as in the 

 male ; stigmas 3, oblong. Fruit from Roxburgh's figure J-| in. diam., orange-red, 

 globular, smooth. — Wall. Cat. 6694 consists of three leaves with one male peduncle 

 and calyx, and a detached fruit ; the leaves resemble those of Trichosanthes dioica, 

 Roxb. 



4. -WARZSA, C. B. Clarke. 



Extensively scandent, tendrils 2-3-fid. Leaves long-petioled, ovate or 

 deeply 6-lobed. Flowen-s large, yellow, dioecious; males frequently two 

 peduncles from one axU, one early deciduous 1-flowered, the other bearing a 

 raceme without bracts ; females solitary on long peduncles. Maxe : calyx-tube 

 cylindnc, narrow, then suddenly widened campanulate subhemispheric, teeth 5, 

 linear ; petals 5, ovate, nearly separate, entire ; stamens 3 ; anthers connate, 

 included, one 1-celled, two 2-ceUed, cells conduplicate. Female : calyx and 

 coroUa as in the male ; ovary oblong ; style long, with 3 wide stigmatic lobes ; 

 ovules horizontal, many, placentas 3, vertical. Frutt oblong, attenuate at both 

 ends, 3-angular, 6-ribbed, S-valved nearly to the base. Seeds in each cell 

 about 16, in two rows, horizontal, compressed, ellipsoid, smooth. 



Diifers from Gywmopetalum by the large campanulate mouth t^t the calyx, by the 

 divided tendrils, and the anthers exserted from the tubular portion of the calyx. 

 Named after J. Ware Edgar, C.S.L 



1. W. tongrlensis, C. B. Clarke in Jowm. lAnn. Soo. xv. 129. Gym- 

 nopetalum sp. No. 6, Herb. Ind. Or., H.f. ^ T. 



SiKKiM, alt. 6000-10,000 ft., very common ; S.f. J. D. S. ; Touglo N., C. B. Clarke. 



Stem and peduncles nearly glabrous. Leaves 6-9 by 4-8 in., polymorphous, cor- 

 date, denticulate, nearly glabrous, ovate acute or S-lobed or cut nearly to the base 

 into narrow segments ; petiole 4 in. Male peduncle 8 in., pedicels ^-f in. Calyx-tube 

 IJ in., pubescent, cylindrie portion more than | in. Petals J in. Fruit 4 by 1^ in. 

 Seeds f in., packed in a fibrous almost juiceless pulp. — This is one of tie three species 

 included in Herpetospermum by J. Hooker in Gen. PI. i. 834. 



