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Males in pedunculate racemes. Fruit dry, fibrous. — 2. 



Luff a. 

 Male flowers small, in clusters or short sessile racemes (in the 



Australian species). Fruit a small berry .^ — 3. Bryon- 



opsis. 

 Tendrils simple. 



Anthers tipped with an appendage to the connective. Fruit 



pulpy or fleshy. — 4. Cucumis. 

 Anthers without any appendage. — 3. Bryonopsis. 



Anther-cells straight, parallel. — 1. Melothria. 



1. MELOTHRIA, Linn., 1737. 



(Aechmandra, Arn., 1841 ; Arkezostis, Rafin., 1836 ; Diclidostigma, 

 KunzL, 1843 ; Harlandia, Hance., 1852 ; Juchia, M. Roem., 1846 ; Karivia, 

 Arn., 1841 ; Landersia, Macfad., 1837 ; Melothrix, M. Laws., 1875 ; Melotria, 

 P. Br., 1756 ; Mukia, Arn., 1841 ; Pflogyne, Schrad., 1835 ; Solena, Lour., 

 1790 ; Zehneria, Endl., 1833). 



Calyx-tube broadly campanulate. Anthers without appendages. Female 

 flowers pedunculate, bearing staminodia. — 1. M. Cunninghamii. 



Calyx-tube turbinate. Anthers with a minute appendage.' Female 

 flowers sessile, without staminodia. — 2. M. maderaspatana. 



1. M. Cunninghamii, F. v. M. (Zehneria Cunninghamii, F. v. M.). — 

 Arnhem N. Bay, R. Brown. 



2. M. maderaspatana, Cogn. (Mukia scabreUa, Arn.). — Hermansburg, 

 Finke River, G. F. Hill (52), 11/3/1911. 



■ Recorded. N.W. Coast, Bynoe ; Nichol Bay, Gregory's Expedition ; 

 Upper Victoria River and GuH of Carpentaria, F. v. Mueller ; Port Essington, 

 Armstrong. 



M. subpellucida, Cogn.; M. celebica, Cogn. — Recorded from North Aus- 

 traha in National Herbarium Census. 



2. LUFFA, Cav. 



1. L. graveolens, Roxh. — Recorded. N.W. Coast, Bynoe; tributaries of 

 the Victoria River, F. v. Mueller. Native Towel-gourd. The bath Loofah is 

 the vascular network of the fruit of L. cylindrica. L. cegyptiaca, Mill.; L. 

 foetida, Cav. — Recorded from North Austraha in National Herbarium Census. 



3. BRYONOPSIS, Arn. 

 {Bryonia, Linn.) 



1 . B. laciniosa, Naud. — Sir Charles Hardy's Island, Henne ; Port Essing- 

 ton, Armstrong. 



Medicinal value ; bitter and aperient. 



4. CUCUMIS, Linn. 



1. C. trigonus, Boxb. — Oakover River, Nichol Bay, Gregory's Expedition ; 

 Victoria River, F. v. Mueller ; Port Essington, Armstrong ; Albert River, 

 Henne ; in the interior, M'Douall Stuart's Expedition. 



C. Meh, L. — ^Recorded from North Australia in National Herbarium 

 Census. 



