628 Lxv. cuouBBiTACEJi. (C. B. Clarke.) lOoraltocarpus. 



veiy small, monoecious ; males in a small corymb at the apex of a long peduncle ; 

 females short-pediceUed or aubsessile, solitary or clustered. Mat . e : calyx-tube 

 campanulate, lobes 5, short ; corolla 5-partite ; stamens 3, nearly sessile at the 

 mouth of the calyx-tube, anthers free, all 2-ceIled or one 1-celled; cells 

 straight, oblong, lateral on the thin connective which is not produced ; ovary 

 rudimentary. !Female : calyx and corolla as in the male ; ovary ovoid ; disc ; 

 stigmas 3 or 2; ovules not very many, horizontal; placentas 3-2, vertical. Berry 

 ovoid, circumsoiss- near the base, usually rostrate. Seedg not very many, ellip- 

 soid or nearly globose, somewhat compressed, smooth or nearly so, little mar- 

 gined. — ^DisTKTB. S|iecies 6, in Tropical Africa, the Persian Gulf, and Western 

 India. 



1. C. epigrsea, Shok. f, in Gen. PI. i. 831 ; leaves punctate or scabrid 

 with minute hairs, fruit ellipsoid or ovoid suddenly contracted into the beak 

 distinctly pedicellcMl, seeds ellipsoid slightly marked, ^chmandra epigsea. 

 Am. in Hook. Joum. Bot. iii. 274 ; Wight Ic. t. 503 ; Bcdz. ^ Cribs. Bomb. JFl. 

 100. Bryonia epigsea. Battler; WiUd. S^. PI. iv. 619; WaU. Cat. 6709; 

 W. ^ A. Prodr. 346. B. glabra, Boxb. Sort Beng. 104, Fl. Ind. iii. 725. 

 B. sinuata, Wall. Cat. 6711 D. 



Punjab, Eawul Pindee ; J", 'E. T. AUcheson. Scinde and G-ujeeat ; Dalsell. 

 Deccah Peninsxtla; Bottler; Wight. Belgaum; Bitchie. Cetlon; Tkwaites. 



Leaves 2 in. diam., nearly entire S-^-angular or 3-5-lobed ; lobes usually broad 

 sometimeB narrow, commonly roundish or sinuous on the margin ; petiole 1 in. Male 

 peduncle 1^-2 in., female |-^ in. or sometimes 1 in. Fruit § in., beak ^ in. more. 

 Seeds about six, much longer than broad. 



2. C. conocarpa, Hook. f. in Gen. PI. i. 831 ; leaves with minute 

 white hairs on both surfeces hardly scabrid, fruit sessile conical not sudderJy 

 contracted into the beak, seeds ellipsoid not margined, ^chmandra conocarpa, 

 Bah. 8r Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 100? 0. Fenzlii, Hqok.f. in Oliv. Fl. Trap. Afr. ii. 565. 



GrujERAT, near Malpor and Gundar ; Dalzell. Also in Stocks collection probably 

 from Scinde. — ^Distbib. Central Africa. 



Hiudly differs from C. yaigtsa but in the points specified in the diagnosis. The 

 leaves are S-lobed, the lobes lanceolate, acute, narrow at each end. 



3. C. velutlna, Sook.f. in Gen. PI. i. 831 ; leaves shortly villous on both 

 surfaces, pedimcles pedicels and calyx villous, fruit ellipsoid sessile suddenly 

 narrowed into a short beak, seeds globose compressed hardly margined. .lEch- 

 mandra velutina. Dale. ^ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 100. ? 0. etbaicus, Sook. f. in Oliv. 

 Fl. Trap. Afr. iL 567. 



ScDTDE ; Dalzell. — Disteib. Persian Gulf and Tropical Africa ? 



Whole plant villous. Leaves 2 in. diam., subsntire or more or less 3-5-lobed, 

 lobes rounded ; petiole | in. Male peduncle 3 in. with 12 flowers at the top. Male 

 and iemale flowers as in C. epig<ea. Fruit ^ in. the beak | in. Seeds about 12, ^ in. 

 diam. 



20. CEXlASXOCABPUia, Hook.f. 



Climbing glabrous herbs ; tendrils simple. Leaves long-petioled, oblong, cor- 

 date, nearly entire. Flowers very small, monoecious ; mfde pedimcle carrying a 

 few clustered flowers at the top ; female flower sessile, solitary, often in the 

 same axil with the male. Maie : calyx-tube short campanulate with 5 minute 

 teeth; corolla 5-partite; stamens 3; anthers subsessile, distinct, one 1-celled, 

 two 2-ceUed ; cells oblong, lateral on the connective which is not produced ; 



