50 Eemarh on the fruit of tJie Natural Order CucnrhHacece. [J ult 



coT,ering by means of tJieir connec^iva, and appHed at the hack alor,g the 

 margins (f the connectiva sigmoid. (?) two-celled. 



9 ScHizosT'GMA (Am.), ^tvle simple, stigma, peltate, fleshy, cleft into 

 10-12 radiating linear lobes. Andes of Mendosa. {Cucurbita as^jerata. 

 Gill.) 



§ 4, — Filaments distinct or tri-adelphous, inserted on the throat of the 

 corolla^ anthei^s 6 or 'd-adelphous, gyrose, anticous. 



10 Sphenanthe (Schrad.). Mexico. 



§ 5. — Filaments tri- adelphouSy inserted at the baseof t\e corolla^ anthers 

 lateral^ straight^ 3-adelphous. 



11 PiLOGTNB (Schrad.). Calyx campanuhite; segments of the corolla 

 patent, much longer than the calyx : anthers one-celled: style entire 

 stigma 1, pileate : fruit baccate, few seeded, obtuse. South Africa. \JEasi 

 Indips — Bryonia Garcini ?'\ 



12 Zeuneiua (Endl. ?). Lobes of the corolla quite entire : style trifid ,* 

 stigmas 3, flabelliform, quite entire : fruit baccate, few seeded, blunt. 

 South Africa^ JSast Indies and ? Norfolk Island.—Bryonia Mysorenses. 

 B. Hookeriana. 



Perhaps this is only a subgenus of Pilogyne. 



13 Karivia (Arn.). Calyx urceolate, corolla scarcely exserted, lobes 

 minute, quite entire ; anthers two-celled ; style entire ; stigma pileate, 

 3-fid : fruit a peponida, many seeded, blunt or with a short thick beak. 

 East Indies^ Bryonia umbellata. B. amplexicaulis. 



14 Ehikchocarpa (Schrad.). Lobes of the corolla denticulate, ciliat- 

 ed ; style trifid ; stigm.as 3, jagged and toothed : fruit with a long slender 

 beak. Guinea. 



§ 6. — Filaments tri-adelphous, inserted at the base of the corolla^ anthers 

 all cohering^ posticous^ linear^ straight. 



15 MuKiA (Arn.). St^le entire, stigmas 3, more or less coliCring, erect. 

 Anthers distinct, one-celled, lateral ; [connectivum prolonged, forming a 

 projecting point : a globose abortive ovary in the bottom of the calyx.] 

 East Indies - Bryonia scabrclla. \_B. leiosperma.'] 



§ 7 — Filaments 5, or tri-adelphous, inserted at the base of the corolla ; 

 connectiva toothed or lobed, anthers applied at the back along the margins 

 of the connectivum^ and therefore flexuose, gy rose, or anfractuose. 



16 Bryonia (Linn.). Corolla 5 -cleft : anthers tri-adelphous, one celled : 

 style trifid ; stigmas subreniform or bifid : fruit ovoid or globose, bac- 

 cate ; few seeded. Europe and East Indies— B. laciniosa, India. B. alba. 

 B. dioica, Europe. Perhaps also B, Garcini and leiosperma, but of these I 

 have no male flowers by me to examine Garcini. Stamens tri-adelphous 

 one-celled : cells linear, marginal, not isigmoid, anticous : style one, 



