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or inverse reniform, 2-seeded; seeds oblong, thickest at the marpjin. 

 IS'ot common; at Domus and on the Kattywar coast, plentiful. 

 Syn. Bryonia garcini, Willd. 



2. Z Cerasiformis, Stocks loc. cit. — Stems, leaves, and bracts 

 as in the preceding ; fruit globose, scarlet, clustered, like cherries ; 

 seeds 2, rather large, convex on one side and concave on the other. 

 This" is one of the most beautiful of climbers, when covered with its 

 cherry-hke fruit. Found in hedges at Gundar, in Guzerat, and in 

 Sind plentiful. 



3. AECHMANDRA, Arnott. 



1. A Epig^a, Am. in Hook. Jour. Bot. iii, 274 (1841).— 

 Stem glabrous, often very flexuose at the joints, tendrils simple ; 

 leaves somewhat fleshy on longish petioles, cordate, sometimes only 

 obtusely-angled, usually 3-lobed, lobes rounded, the lateral ones 

 broader and sHghtly 2-lobed, all remotely and slightly toothed ; 

 male flowers minute, yellow, shortly racemose, on the apex of a 

 long, naked, smooth peduncle ; female flowers solitary, sessile, in the 

 same axils as the male ; berry stalked, ovoid, smooth-beaked, green 

 at the base, scarlet above. Guzerat and the Deccan, pretty com- 

 mon ; also in Sind. Seeds brown, with white corded margins. 



2. A Cenocarpa, Dalz. Mss. — A climber like the last, but 

 with the lobes of the leaves lanceolate-acute, the middle one much 

 longer than the others; male flowers about 16; peduncle 1^ inch 

 long; fruit sessile, exactly narrow-conical, smooth, orange-red, 

 except the cup-shaped base, which remains green ; seeds black, 

 ovate, scarcely compressed, sides bulging, Hedges in Guzerat; 

 near Malpor and Gundar. 



3. A Rostrata, Arn. loc. cit. — Stems slender, hairy or pube- 

 scent ; tendrils simple ; leaves on longish petioles, roundish-cordate, 

 sinuate-toothed, pubescent ; male flowers from 2 to 7 together on an 

 axillary peduncle ; small, yellow ; female solitary, very shortly 

 peduncled ; berry roundish-depressed, slightly grooved, with a long 

 sudden beak, hairy, scarlet ; seeds bulging on each side, with a very 

 thin margin. Syn. Bryonia rostrata, Rottler. Hedges in Guzerat. 

 In these three species, the stamens are certainly opposite the seg* 

 ments of the corolla. In the first, the horns of the anthers are scarcely 

 visible ; in the second, they are more developed ; in the last, they 

 are very long ; aestivation of corolla decidedly valvate ; the fruit 

 is 4-celled in all, one cell above the other, and the beak of the fruit 

 falls off like a Calyptra. A fourth species, all velvetty, grows in 

 Sind. A velutina, Dalz. Mss. 



4. MUKIA, Arnott. 

 1, M ScABBELLA, Amott. loc. cit. — All hispid and scabrous; 



