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the same plant. Male flowers : calyx bell- shaped, toothed ; 
corolla-segments acute ; filaments very short, anthers free. 
Female flowers : calyx and corolla nearly as in the male ; ovary 
bristly, ovoid ; style club-shaped, stigma 3-lobed ; ovules few in 
each cell. Fruit nearly smooth, berry-like, globose, \ in. diam., 
bright red, indehiscent ; seeds few, rough. 
Mushobra, in orchards ; June. — Common throughout India, ascending to 
6000 ft. — Malaya, Africa, Australia. 
4. ZEHNERIA. In honour of Joseph Zehner, an Austrian 
botanical artist. — Asia, Africa, Australia, S. America. 
Zehneria nmbellata, Thwaites ; FI. Br. Ind. ii. 625. A climb- 
ing herb ; stems and leaves smooth, glabrous or slightly pubescent. 
Leaves exceedingly variable in shape, broadly ovate about 
6x4 in., triangular-hastate about 6x4 in., more or less deeply 
3-lobed about 6x6 in., or 3-5-lobed nearly to the base, lobes un- 
equal, narrow, diverging, mid-lobe the longest, about 2-6 in. ; 
