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GENUS V. ACHMANDRA. 
Monecia Monadelphia, Sex: Syst: 
Deriv, From Aichme, a point, and Aner, Andros, male, in allu. 
sion to the pointed anthers. 
Gen. Cuan. Lobes of the corolla undivided; filaments triadel- 
phous, very short: anthers linear-oblong; connectivum prolonged 
jnto a short beak beyond the anther: fruit baccate, beaked. 
(1) A. epwea. (Ara.) 
Ident. Arn, in Hook. Jour. Bot. III. p. 274. (ed. 1841.) 
Syn. Bryonia épigeea, Rotil, W.§ A. prod. I. p. 346.—B, 
glabra, Roxb. ft. Ind; IIE. p. 725. 
Engrav. Wight’s Icon. t. 503. 
Spec. Cuar. Stem glabrous, often very flexuose at the joints ; 
tendrils simple: ledves somewhat fleshy, on longish petioles, cor~ 
date; sometimes only ohtusely angled, usually 3-lobed, densely 
hairy on both sides: lobes raunded, lateral ones the broadest and 
flightly 2-lubed, all slightly toothed: male flowers shortly racemosé 
at the apex of a lang thickish peduncle : calyx campanulate ; femaléed 
short-peduijcled, solitary, in the same or different axils from thé 
inales: berry ovate, beaked, glabrous: seeds white, compressed ; 
flowers small, yellow. 
Peninsula. Guzerat and the Deccan, 
(2) A. rostrata, (Arn.) 
Ident, Arn, in Hook. Jour. Bot. III. p. 274. (ed. 1841.) 
Syn. Bryonia rostrata, Rottl. W. § A. prod, 1. p. 8346.—Deo; 
prod. III. p. 304.--B. pilosa, Roxb. A. Ind. III. p. 726. 
Spec, Cuar. Stems slender, hairy or pubescent: tendrils sim- 
ple: leaves long-petioled, roundish-cordate, sinuate, toothed, pubes- 
cent: male flowers usually two together, pedicelled, on a slender 
pediinicle longer than the petiole: calyx camipanulate: femate soli- 
tary, very short-peduncled, in the same axils with the male: berry 
ovate, rostrate, longitudinally striated, hairy, 2-6-seeded: seeda 
Black, compressed, with a thin margin: flowers small, yellow. 
Peninsula. Hedges in Guzerat. 
(3) HE. cenocarpa. (Dalz.) 
Ident. Dalz. Bomb. flot. p. 100. 
Srzé. Cuan. Climbing: leaves lobed: lobes lanceolate, acute, 
middle oie tiueh loiger than the others: male flowers about 15, on 
longish peduncles : fruit sessile, narrow-conical, smooth, orange-red, 
except the base which remains green: seeds black, ovaté: sides 
ibbous. 
Hedges in Guzerat. 
