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mens adelphous: fruit oblong, tapering, 3-4 inches in length, acutes 
ly 10-angled: lid deciduous: seeds blackish-grey, marked with 
small elevated black dots: margin tumid, 2-lobed at the base: 
flowers large, yellow. 
Peninsula, flowering in the rainy season. 
(2) L. scntnata. (Roxbd.) 
Hdent. Roxb. fl. Ind. IIL. p. 716.—W. & A. prod. I. p. 343. 
Sprsc. Cuar. Dicecious: stems slightly hairy: leaves somewhat 
hairy, about 5-lobed, repand-toothed : tendrils bifid: male racemes 
longer than the leaves: stamens triadelphous: fruit oval, echinated 
with long soft bristles; lid deciduous: flowers small. 
Coromandel. Guzerat. Flowering.in the rainy season. 
(3) L. ruperosa. (Roxb.) 
Fdent. Roxb. fl. Ind. IIL. p. 717. 
Spec. Cuar. Root tuberous, perennial: stems glabrous: leaves 
reniform-cordate, 5—7-angled or lobed, toothed, quite glabrous: 
tendrils simple: male racemes few-flowered, very short: stamena 
diadelphous: female flowers solitary: fruit oblong, smooth, with > 
sharp ridges, indehiscent : flowers small, white. 
Circars, Mysore. Tuticorin. This is a rare species. It grows 
in hedges and among bushes on the banks of water courses. 
(4) Li cravata. (Rosh) 
Ident. Roxb. fl. Ind. TEI. p. 744. 
Srsec. Car. Stems smooth: leaves slightly 5—7-lobed ;, poste- 
rior lobes rounded ;. margin slightly toothed : fruit clavate, long and 
slender: flowers very long, deep-yellow. 
Hindostan, flowering in the cold season. 
(5) L. araveotens. ( Roxb.) 
Ident. Roxb. fl. Ind. III. p. 746. 
Sezc. Cuar. Stems creeping, somewhat villous: tendrils. 3—4- 
cleft: leaves kidney-shaped, somewhat lobed, scallop-toothed, the 
surface covered with a few small teeth: flowers axillary, male and 
female mixed, and blossoming in succession: fruit oblong, about 
the size of a man’s thumb, armed with numerous soft conical points, 
the interstices being clothed with hairs and short glands, 
Rajmahal hills, flowering in the rainy season. 
GENUS IV. BRYONIA. 
Moneeeia Monadelphia. Ser: Syst: 
Deriv, From Bryo, to sprout out, in allusion to the rapid 
growth, 
