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LVTT. CUCURBIT ACE J3. 
[Cnrurhita . 
corolla, teeth subulate. Fruiting peduncle often woody, angled and deeply 
grooved. Fruit with fibrous flesh. Seeds white. — Bent, and '[’rim. Med. PI. 
pi. 116. 
Hab.: The Fumpkin of cultivation, often met with as a stray. 
10. BRYONIA, Linn. 
(From the Greek, alluding to the rapid growth of the plants.) 
(Bryonopsis, Blume.) 
Calyx in the males, and free part of it in the females, broadly campanulate, 
5-toothed. Corolla campanulate, deeply 5-lobed. Stamens in the males 3 ; 
filaments free ; anthers two with 2 cells, one with 1 cell, the cells flexuose. 
Ovary in the females fusiform, ovoid or globular, contracted at the top, with 3 
placentas and few horizontal ovules; style slender, with 3 reniform or bifid 
stigmas. Fruit a globular or ovoid-conical berry. Seeds few. compressed, or 
with convex faces and a thickened margin enveloped in pulp. — Climbing herbs 
with simple or 2-branched tendrils. Leaves palmately lobed. Flowers greenish- 
yellow, small as well as the fruits, in axillary racemes sometimes adduced to 
clusters. 
The genus, taken in the above extended sense given to it by most botanists, although not 
numerous in species, ranges over the warmer and temperate regions both of the New and the 
Old World. The Australian species, however, belongs to the section Rryonopsis, now aodpted 
by Naudin as a distinct genus, limited to 2 or perhaps 3 Asiatic and African species, of which 
the Australian is one. — Benth. 
1. B. laciniosa (leaves much divided), Linn.: Sir. in DC. Prod. iii. 308 ; 
Bentli. FI. Austr. iii. 319. Stems rather slender but extending to a great length. 
Leaves broad, very deeply palmatifid or almost pedatifid, the lobes ovate, ovate- 
lanceolate, or sometimes linear-lanceolate, often 3 to -fin. long, and more or less 
angular or sinuate-toothed. Tendrils usually 2-branched, but one branch some- 
times small or quite wanting. Flowers small, in very short axillary racemes 
usually reduced to clusters, the males and females often in the same axil, the 
rhachis rarely 3 to 4 lines long. Pedicels slender, from 1 to 5 or 6 lines long. 
Calyx 14 to 2 lines diameter. Corolla scarcely twice the size of the calyx. 
Berry globular, yellow or red, ab.iut lin. diameter. Seeds with a very thick 
transversely-furrowed border, the faces convex or conical within the border. — 
Wight, l.c. t. 509 ; Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 4 xii. 139, with the synonyms 
adduced ; Zehnerin erythrocarpa, F. v. M. in Hook. Kew .Tourn. viii. 51 (from the 
character given). 
Hab.: Broadsound, R. Brown ; N.E. coast, A. Cunningham; Burdekin River, I‘\ v. Mueller ; 
Suttor River, Bowman : Rockhampton, Thozet, Dallachy ; Brisbane River, Moreton Bay, 
F. v. Mueller. 
The species is dispersed over tropical Asia and Africa. Naudin. Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 4 xii. 140, 
and xviii. 193, distinguishes this species, with 1 or 2 closely allied ones (or perhaps varieties) as 
the above-mentioned genus Bryonopsi*. This name was originally proposed by Blume for several 
old Bryonia s now referred to Zehnerin and other groups, and is now limited by Naudin to B. 
laciniosa and its allies, characterised especially by the seed, but also by monoecious not dioecious 
flowers, the clustered not racemose inflorescence, and branched not simple tendrils. But one of 
our European true Bryonias is monoecious, the clusters of B. laciniosa are nothing but short 
racemes, and the branched tendrils, although general, are not constant, and the genus rests 
solely on the seed, which appears to me to be a much better secfional than generic character. — 
Bentli. 
11. ZEHNERIA, Endl. 
(After Joseph Zehner.) 
Flowers usually dioecious, all fascicled racemose or cymose. Male flowers : 
Calyx tubular or campanulate, 5-toothed or lobed. Corolla rotate, 5-partite, 
villous within, Filaments 3, rarely 4 or 5, inserted in the tube or base of the 
