630 Lxv. cuctEBiTACBiE. (C. B. Clarke.) [Otmohpie. 



leaf not Very acute nor much longer tlian the others, male peduncle less than 

 i in., fruit not longer than broad. Bryonia, Garcini, DC Prodr. Ui. 308; 

 Moxb. Fl. Ind. jii. 727; Watt. Cat. 6713; W. ^ A. Frodr. 344, Zehneria 

 Garcini, Stocks in Hook. Kew Jmm. Bot. iv. 149 ; Dalz. Sr S«6». JBomb. Ft 99. 



Bcndelkund; Edgeworth. Dbccan Peninsula ; Sottler,Sai. Cbxion; Thwaitei. 



Annual ; stem not elongate, more or less scabrouB and punctate, Scarcely at_ all 

 hairy. Leaves 1-1 J^ in. diain., lobes often sinuate and lobed; petiole ^— i in.; 

 Btipuliform bracts J in. and more, elliptic, with long cilia. Fruit 1 by J in. 



2. C cera/Sifonnis, N<md. in Ann,. So. Nfct. set. &, Vi. 13 ; middle lobe 

 of the leaf acute longer than the others, male peduncle ^"-1 in,, fruit elUpsoid 

 not in the least narrowed into the peduncle, Zehneria oeirasifomris, 8toa(» in 

 Hook. Keui Jonim. Bot. iv. 149. 



Scinde; Stocks. G-tiieeat; Dalzell. — ^Disteib. Tropical and Southern Africa. 

 Hardly distinguishable from C. Garcini. Leaves usually larger, sometimes 3 in. 

 diam. 



23.' SXCSZiOSFSBBKTTIlE, C S, aarke. 



A dimhing scabrous herb; tendrils dmple. Leaves pelioled, coidate or 

 hastate, ovate, acute, little lobed. Flvwerg minute; males and females 

 clustered in the same axils, short-pedicelled. Male: caljix^tabe short, cam- 

 panulate, teeth 5, minute ; corolla 5-partite ; stamens 3, filaments very short, 

 anthers free, one 1-celled, two 2-celled ; cells oblong, straight ; eonneenvs not 

 produced. Fi-uit small, membranous, obovoid, subtrigonous, l-celled, with 3 

 basal erect seeds. Seedi with three parallel equal cells, the two lateral empty. 



1. D. B,ltclliel» C B. Clarke. 



Belgaum ; Ritchie. Also in Herb. Stocks doubtless front Western India. 



Exceedingly like Mukia scahrella except as to the seeds, and the flowers are 

 smaller. Leaves ih by 1| in„ scabrid and somewhat hispid on both surfaces ; petiole 

 J in. Fruit J- in. diam. Seeds J by | and JL jn. thick, attached to the very bottom 

 of the fruit, erect. — Female /dteew not seen. 



23. TKIiASZAMTXA, £u«^. 



Climbing herbs ; tendrils simple, rarely 2- fid. Leaves pelioled, entire or tri- 

 partite, deeply cordate, denticulate, softly pubescent or nearly glabrous. Flowers 

 dioecious, yellow, large or small. Male peduncles in the fiuly developed plant 

 paired, one 1-flowered ebracteate caducous, the other lacemedTthe flowers with 

 or without bracts ; female peduncle elongate, 1~ flowered, ebracteate. Maxe : 

 calyx-tube shortly campanulate, the bottom shut by a horizontal scale ; seg- 

 ments 6, lanceolate; corolla campanulate, S-partite, segments levolute about 

 half-way down ; filaments 8, inserted near the mouth of the calyx-tube ; 

 anther 1-celled, narrow-oblong, straight. Feuaxi: : calyx and corolla as in the 

 male ; ovary oblong, style deeply 3-fid with 3 remfoim stigmas ; ovules many, 

 horizontal; placentas 3, vertical. Fhiit ellipsoid, olituse, indehiseen^ green, 

 cylindric with vertical ribs. Seeds many, horizontal, small, obovoidj com- 

 pressed, smooth. — DiBiBlB. Species 2, Bengal, Malaya, Ohiila. 



The generic character is here widened to include the Khasia species. As in most 

 Cucurbits with paired male peduncles, either the simple or the racemed one is often 

 wanting, and the two do not flower together ; the simple peduncle generally falls off 



