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GENUS VII. MUKIA. 
Monccia Monadelphia. Ser: Sy:i: 
Deriv. The Sanscrit name latinized. 
Gan. Cuan. Style entire: stigmas 8, more or less cohering, 
erect: filaments triadelphous, inserted at the base of the corolla: 
anthers distinct, 1-celled, lateral: connectivum prolonged into a 
point. 
(1) M. scapreria. (Arn.) 
Ident. Arn. in Hook. Jour. Bot. III. p. 274. (ed. 1841.) 
Syn. Bryonia scabrella, Linn. W. & A. prod. I. p. 845.—Dee. 
prod. III. p. 806.—B. Madraspatana, Berg. Dec. 1. c.—Cucumis 
Madraspatanus, Linn.—B. althoeoides, Ser. in Dec. prod. 1. c.—B. 
scabra, Rottl—B. Rottleri, Spreng.—B. scabrella, Rowd. fi. Ind. 
Til. p. 424. 
Engrav. Pluk. t. 170. f. 2.—Rheede Mal. VIII. t. 13.— 
Wight’s Icon. t. 501. 
Spzc. Cuan. All hispid and scabrous: tendrils simple: leaves 
cordate, lobed or angled: flowers short-peduncled 5 males fascicled ; 
female 1-4, in different axils from the male: berry globular, size of- 
a pea, glabrous or slightly bristly: seed surrounded by a narrow 
zone, and wrinkled from numerous shallow hollows: flowers small, 
yellowish. 
Peninsula. Interior of the mountains of Northern India. Flow- 
ering all over India. There are several varieties, one of which has 
small and scarcely angled leaves and the berries solitary, the latter 
usually being 3-4 together. 
GENUS VIII. COCCINIA. 
Diecia Monadelphia. Sex: Syst: 
Deriv. From Coccineus, scarlet, in allusion to the bright-red 
fruit. ; e 
Gen. Cuan. Calyx 5-cleft: corolla much larger than the calyx, 
campanulate, 5-cleft. Mate. Calyx very short: anthers distinct 
and connivent, very anfractuose; stamens united at the base into 
one column. Frm. Calyx-tube oblong, attenuated at the apex 
under the limb: stamens triadelphous, abortive: style short, 8- 
cleft: stigmas bifid: fruit somewhat baccate, oblong, smooth, 3- 
eelled : bursting irregularly : seeds ovate, compressed, covered with 
a gelatinous aril. 
