Z4f G. King Malm ials for a Mora of the Malatjitn Feninatila. [No- 1", 
iiari"o\vly winged, smooth or slightlj iubercled, DC. Prodr, III, 303; 
Clarke in Htjok. fil. ¥Un\ Brit* Imh II, 614. Oncmnis aegrfptiacus^ VesL 
t in Alp. PL Aegypt. p. 1^9, 58, 59. Maviordka Liifa, Linii. Spec. etl. 1,* 
1009, L. pentandra, Roxh. Flor. !iid, 111,712; W. & A. Prodr 34;:5 ; 
Wall. Cat. 6751 ; Wiglit Ic. t. 499, L. racemomt, Koxb. 1. c. 715, 
L. clavatai lioxb, Hort. Beug. 104; Flor. Iiitl, III, 714. JD. acniajigulff, 
W. & A. 1. c., (not of Roxb.). L. cylindricUf Koeni. SyDops. II, 03; 
Waud. in Ann. Sc. Nat, Sor. 4, XII, p. 119; Kuvz in Jonrn. As, Soc. 
1877, Ft. II, 100 ; Cogn. in DO. Mou. Phan. Ill, 450. L. Petola and 
L. Gattu-picivma^ Seringe in DC. 1. c. L. Fartula^ Wall. Cat. 67^8, 
L. Qosa, hede^-aeea and Safpafia, Wall. Gat. 6753, 6755, 6757. Bryonia 
ckeirophyUaf Wall. Cnt. 6715 A, 
Perak ; Ki7>g*s CoUecfor 1020. Distbib, British India and in the 
Tropics generally ; often cnltivated. 
The Byrnnymj of Lbia Bppciea occupies more than a papre in C6gnmii5t'« eicelleiit 
Monograph of t\it CutHrbitaeerP in Do CuDiiolle's Suites mt^ Frodrmtiu-eiY ol^ III. I have 
followed MeasrH. Cogiiiaux audC. B. Clmko in red ucmg here Rojtbarjjh's three apeciea 
L. pcniandra, 1, racemosn and L. cluvtita, hat I do SO with eonsidei-ablo 4iD8itatiou. 
Neither in flower nor leaf do Roxburgh's ligmrea of hifi L. cluvata and /. -pentdndra 
much rcBi-mble ench other, whatever rehition either of them may bear to If- Aeyiip- 
tiaca, Miller. The material of the Itnliao ppedes in the Cnloiitta Herbariiiin if* vevj 
unsatjefaetory, and 1 do not think tbo last word on them will be said until tiiej have 
been carefully caltiTated eide by aide, and Btndfed aa they grow, 
»5. BiJKiKCABA, Savi. 
A large climber, softly hairy, tendrils 2- or 3-fid, rarely simple. 
Leaves cordate, reiiiform-oi-bicular, more or lesB 5-lobed ; petiole without 
glands. Flowers large, yellow, monoocioas, all solitary, without bracts. 
Male; calyx-tnbe campanulate ; lobes 5, leaf-like, senrate ; petals 5, 
nearly separate, obovate ; stamena 3, inserted near the month of the 
tubu ; an tilers exserted, free, one 1-celled, two 2-CBllecl, cells sigmoid. 
TicMALE ; calyx and corolla as in the male ; ovary oblong, densely hairy ; 
style thick, with 3 flextioso stigmas ; ovules iiameroni?, horizontal ; 
placentn.'* 3. Frnii large, fleshy, oblong, pubescent, indehiscent. Seeds 
many, oblong, compressed, raargiised. 
BiiNiNCASA HisptDA, Cogn, in DC Men, Phan. Ill, tilS, Annual. 
Leaves on long petioles, reniform-rotundf with 5-9 small lobes, all 
toothed, 4-6 in, lotig and ahoufc the same in breadth ; petioles eylindric, 
longer than the leaves, tendrils nsnally 3-fid. Male flowers axillary, 
solitary, pedimcled, yellow, 15 in. in diam. ; teeth of the calyx ob- 
tusely pinnatifid or ttndulate. Females Jiowers like the male, axillary, 
solitary, peduncled ; calyx as in tbe male. Fruit snh-cyliiidrtc, obtuse 
at tht! ends, smooth, hairy when young but glabrous and with a whitish 
