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GENUS VI. KARIVIA. 
Moneela Monadelphia. Sex: Syst: 
Deriv. The Malabar name latinized. 
Gen. Cuar. Calyx urceolate: corolla scarcely exserted: lobes 
minute, quite entire: anthers 2-celled: style entire: stigma pileate, 
trifid:; fruit many-seeded, blunt or with a short thick beak. 
(1) K. umpettara. (Arn.) 
Ident. Wight’s Il. IT. p. 30. 
Syn. Bryonia umbellata, Klein. Dec. prod. III. p. 305.—W. 
& A. prod. I. p. 345.—Momordica umbellata, Roxb. fl. Ind. 
III. p. 710.—R. Rheedii, Blume. 
Engrav. Rheede Mal. VII. t. 26. 
Spzc. Cuar. Dicecious: root tuberous: stems glabrous: ten- 
drils simple: leaves very short-petioled, cordate or sagittate, hirsute 
at the base, from oblong and entire or roundish and angled to more 
or less deeply 3—5-lobed or sometimes palmately 5-partite, sinuate 
and sharply toothed, scabrous above, smoothish beneath, somewhat 
coriaceous: male flowers umbelled or shortly racemose at the apex 
of a long slender peduncle: pedicels with a small narrow-oblong 
bracteole about their middle: calyx campanulate: females on a 
different plant, solitary, short-peduncled: berry about the size of a 
pigeon’s egg, oblong, slightly angled: seeds orbicular, surrounded 
with a warted zone: flowers small, yellowish. 
Common in hedges in the Peninsula. Silhet. Deccan. Sir- 
more, flowering nearly all the year. The fruit as well as the root 
is eaten by the natives. 
(2) K, amprexicaunis. (4rn.) 
Ident. Wight’s Il. II. p. 30. 
Syn. Bryonia amplexicaulis, Lam. W. §& A. prod. I. p. 346. 
Engrave. Wight’s Icon. t. 502. 
Spec. Cuan. Moncecious: stems glabrous: tendrils simple: 
Jeaves almost sessile, deeply cordate or sagittate at the base, ovate 
or oblong, entire or angled, mucronate, sinuate and toothed, slightly 
scabrous above, smooth below: male flowers in an umbel: pedun- 
eles shorter than the leaves: pedicels short, without bracteoles: 
females solitary, very short-peduncled, in the same or different axils 
from the males: berry broadly ovate, beaked, about 4-seeded : 
seeds oval, thick, surrounded with a wrinkled zone; the sides flat 
sprinkled with little tubercles, : 
_ Southern Provinces, 
