880 CUCVBBITACEM. [Coeallocaepus. 



13. GORALLOCARPUS, WeW. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. ii, 627. 



Climbing or prostrate herbs, scabrid or subtomentose ; tendrils 

 simple. Leaves petioled, ronndisb-cordate, somewhat thick, entire 

 lobed or palmate. Flowers very small, monoeeious ; males in a 

 small corymb at the ape's of a long peduncle ; females short-pedi- 

 celkd or subsessile, solitary or clustered. Male : Calyx'tuhe cam- 

 panulate, lobes 5, short. Corolla 5 -partite. Stamens 3, nearly 

 sessile at the mouth of the calyx-tube ; anthers free, all 2»celled or 

 one 1- celled ; cells straight, oblong, lateral on the thin connective 

 which is not produced. Ovary rudimentary. Female : Calyx and 

 corolla as in the male. Ovary ovoid ; disk 0, stigmas 3 or 2 ; 

 ovules not very many, horizontal ; 'placentas 3-2, vertical. Berry 

 ovoid, ciroumsciss near the base, usually rostrate. Seeds ellipsoid 

 or nearly globose, somewhat compressed, smooth or nearly so, little 

 margined. — Species 15, chiefly in Trop. Asia and Africa, and one in 

 Trop. America. 



C. epigseus, 0. B. Clarhe in F. B. I, ii, 628 ; Cogn. in DC Man. 

 Phan. Hi, 649 ; Watt E. D. Bryonia epigsea, Bottl.; W. ^. A Prod. 346. 

 B. glabra, Boxh.; Fl. Ind. Hi, 725. ^chmandra epigaea, Am.; B. Sr G. 

 Bomb. Fl. 100. 



Eoot turnip -shaped. Leaves 2-in. in diam., broadly suborbicular, 

 3-5-angled or -lobed, punctate, or scabrid with minute hairs ; lobes 

 often lobulate, obtuse, margins sinuous ; 'petiole 1 in. Flowers green- 

 ish-yellow. Male-peduncle l-|-2 in. Fern. -peduncle |-^ in. or more, 

 stout. Fruit stalked, | in. including beak, ellipsoid or ovoid, suddenly 

 narrowed into the beak, reddish when ripe. Seeds about 6, ellipsoid, 

 turgid, smooth, margined. 



Bundelkhand (Duthie). Disteib, Punjab (Aitchison), Sind and 

 Gujarat (Dalzell), Deccan Penins., Ceylon. The root is used medici- - 

 nally. 



14. BRYONOPSIS, Am. 



(under Bryonia in Fl. Brit. Ind. ii, 622.) 



Climbing annual herbs, more or less scaberulous. Tendrils 2-fid. 

 Leaves deeply palmately 5-lobed. Flowers monoecious, not in racemes, 

 small, greenish-yellow, males and females often clustered in the same 

 axils. Male: Ca^yiC-^wSe widely campanulate ; teeth short, narrow. 

 Corolla 5-partite. lobes ovate. Stamens 3, free, inserted low 

 down on tube ; anthers ovate, one 1-celled, the others 2-celled, cells- 

 curved or somewhat sigmoid, connective not produced ; rudiment of 

 ovary O. Fem.: Calyx and corolla as of male. Staminodes 3, small. 

 Ovary globose or ovoid ; ttyle slender, 3-fid., without a basal disk f . 

 ovules horizontal ; placentas 3. Fruit a spherical or ovoid-conical 



