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Section III. Mukia. Fls. monoecious, males clustered and females solitary; anthers subsessile, the connective apiculate: fr. subsessile; seeds margined, usually pitted.
Section III. Mukia. Fls. monoecious, males clustered and females solitary; anthers subsessile, the connective apiculate: fr. subsessile; seeds margined, usually pitted.
M. fluminensis, Gardn., produces a fr. said to be pickled when green, in Porto Rico, and eaten, and also good when fully ripe: a climber 5 or 6 ft. long: lvs. cordate-ovate, usually acute or short- acuminate, 5-angted or lightly 3-5-lobed, scabrous above: fr. small, not variegated or otherwise marked and in this differing from M. scabra. Trop. Amer: variable.
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