4 CUCURBITACEE. II. 
lobed. Corolla as in the male. Styles 3, spreading, bifid at 
the apex. Fruit long, turbinate, fleshy, having a circular line 
at the apex, formed from the vestige of the calyx, opening by 
3 valves at the top, 3-celled; the rind solid: central placenta 
fleshy, large, trigonal; cells biovulate. Seeds ovate, mar- 
gined by a foliaceous wing (f. 1. e. d.),, exalbuminous. Embryo 
inverted.—Smooth, climbing, Indian plants. Leaves alternate, 
petiolate, exstipulate, ovate-lanceolate, cordate at the base, 
acuminated, quite entire. Tendrils axillary. Peduncles also 
axillary and racemose. This genus, from the general form of 
the fruit, is like the genus Courttari, but from the characters it is 
allied to Feuillea. The interior fabric of the seeds is unknown. 
Secr. I. Zanonta (see genus for derivation). Blum. l. c. 
Cells of fruit 2-seeded. Fruit elongated, somewhat tetragonal. 
EIGHT 
1 Z. I’nvica (Lin. spec. 
1157.) leaves elliptic, acute, 
rather cordate at the base ; 
racemes axillary. h.%.S. 
Native of Malabar, Ceylon, 
and Java. Blum. l. c. Pe- 
narválli, Rheed. mal. 8. t. 
47 and 48. 
Indian Zanonia. Pl). cl. 
Secr. II. Atsomirra 
(from aàøgoç, alsos, a grove, 
and purpa, mitra, a girdle ; 
the plants grow in groves 
and entwine round the trees 
by means of ring-like ten- 
drils.). Blum. 1. c- Cells 
of ovarium many-seeded. 
apex, or elongated. 
2 Z. macroca’rpa (Blum. l. c.) leaves ovate-elliptic, acutish, 
rounded at the base; racemes axillary. h. S. Native of 
Java, on the mountains of Parang. 
Large-fruited Zanonia. Pl. cl. 
3 Z. sarcorny'LLA (Wall. pl. rar. asiat. 2. p. 28. t. 133.) 
leaves trifoliate; leaflets thick, fleshy, ovate, obtuse, quite 
Fruit hemispherical, truncate at the 
entire. h. |. S. Native of the East Indies, in sterile ex- 
posed situations along the banks of the Irawaddi. The plant 
climbs by means of simple and slender tendrils. The, leaves 
are of a pale glaucous colour. Flowers small, very numerous, 
forming ample, greenish, nodding panicles. The different sexes 
are produced in distinct plants. 
Fleshy-leaved Zanonia. Shrub cl. 
4 Z.ciavicera (Wall. 1. c.) smooth ; leaves trifoliate ; leaflets 
oblong, acuminated, quite entire; fruit large, clavate. h. . S. 
Native of Silhet, where it is called in the Bengalee language 
Kishnobera. The fruit is 3 inches long, and as thick as a thumb. 
Club-bearing Zanonia. Shrub cl. 
5 Z. ancura‘ta (Wall. 1. c.) smooth; stem angular; leaves 
simple, somewhat hastately lanceolate, cordate at the base; fruit 
large, clavate. h. |. S. Native of Silhet. The fruit is as 
long as a finger, and very thick. 
Angular-stemmed Zanonia. Shrub cl. 
6 Z. cisstoipes (Wall. 1. c.) stem filiform, angular ; leaves 
pedate, with 5 or 7 leaflets; leaflets lanceolate, acuminated at 
both ends, coarsely and cuspidately serrated; petioles and pe- 
duncles pilose. k.. S. Native of Nipaul. 
Cissus-like Zanonia. Shrub cl. 
T Z. taxa (Wall. l. c. p. 29.) stem filiform, much branched, 
bifariously pilose; leaves trifoliate; leaflets acuminated, ser- 
rated, intermediate one lanceolate, lateral ones half cordate ; 
petioles and peduncles pilose. h.. S. Native of Silhet. 
Zanonta. III. Lacenaria. 
Loose Zanonia. Shrub cl. 
8 Z. HETEROSPE’RMA (Wall. 1. c.) stem filiform, very slender; 
leaves pedate, with 5 leaflets; leaflets lanceolate, acuminated, 
serrated; capsule clavate, angular, borne on very long capil- 
laceous peduncles ; seeds scabrous from scales. h.o. S. Na- 
tive of Mount Taong Dong, near Ava. Capsule chartaceous, 
trigonal, 8 lines long, with a 3-toothed mouth. The scales on 
the seeds are elegantly imbricated, and girded by a narrow 
margin. 
Variable-seeded Zanonia. Shrub cl. 
Cult. See Feuillea, p. 3. for the culture and propagation of 
the species. 
Tribe II. 
CUCURBI'TEE (plants agreeing with Cucúrbita in impor- 
tant characters). D. C. prod. 3. p. 299. Tendrils lateral, 
stipular. Flowers hermaphrodite, dioecious, or monoecious. 
II]. LAGENA‘RIA (from lagena, a bottle ; form of fruit of 
some of the species). Ser. diss. ].c. D.C. prod. 3, p. 299.— 
Cuciirbita species of authors. 
Lin. syst. Dioécia, Polydélphia. Calyx campanulate ; 
segments subulate or broadish, shorter than the tube. Corolla 
white ; petals obovate, rising from beneath the margin of the 
calyx. Male. Stamens 5, in 3 parcels, the fifth one free. Female. 
Style almost wanting; stigmas 3, thick, 2-lobed, granular. 
Fruit 3-5? celled. Seeds obovate, compressed, 2-lobed at the 
apex, with tumid margins. Flowers monoecious. 
1 L. vutea'ris (Ser. mss. ex D.C. prod. 3. p. 299.) plant 
musky scented, clothed with soft pubescence; stems climbing ; 
tendrils 3-4-cleft ; leaves cordate, nearly entire, biglandular at 
the base, pilose, rather glaucescent ; flowers monoecious, stel- 
late, spreading much, in fascicles ; connectives of anthers beset 
with oblong-ovate, acute papillae; fruit pubescent, but when 
mature quite smooth; flesh white, edible. ©. H. Native 
within the tropics. Cuctrbita lagenaria, Lin. spec. 1434. Sieb. 
hort. 1. t. 69.—Rumph. amb. 5. t. 144.—Mor. hist. 2. p. 23. 
sect. 57. t. 5. f. 1, 2, 3. Flowers large, white. Fruit shaped 
like a bottle ; when ripe of a pale yellow colour, some near 6 
feet long, with a roundish bottom and a neck ; the rind becoming 
hard, and being dried, contains water; it is then of a pale bay 
colour. The bottle-gourd is called Charrah by the Arabians. 
The poor people eat it, boiled with vinegar, or fill the shells 
with rice and meat, thus making a kind of pudding of it. 
It grows in all parts of Egypt and Arabia, wherever the moun- 
tains are covered with rich soil. In Jamaica and many other 
places within the tropics, the shells are generally used for holding 
water or palm wine, and serve as bottles. The pulp of the fruit 
is often employed in resolutive poultices; it is bitter and purga- 
tive, and may be used instead of colocynth. 
Var. a, gotirda (Ser. mss. ex D. C. 1. c) fruit unequally bi- 
ventricose.— Moris, hist. sect. 1. t. 5. f. 1. Dodon. pempt. 668. 
f.1. Bottle gourd. Gourde des pélerins. 
Var. B, gougotirda (Ser. l. c.) fruit ventricose at the base, 
neck oblong.—Rumph. amb. 5. p. 398. t. 144. Braam, icon. 
chin. t.17. Commonly called Gougourde. 
Var. y, depréssa (Ser. 1. c.) fruit globose, depressed. 
Var. ò, turbinata (Ser. l. c.) fruit somewhat campanulately 
pear-shaped. Mor. hist. sect. 1. t. 5. f. 2. Dodon. pempt. 
t669- feel 
Var. e, clavata (Ser. mss.) fruit obovate-oblong, club-shaped. 
—Moris. hist. sect. 1. t. 5. f. 3. Dodon. pempt. 669. f. 2. 
Gourde trompette, Gourde massue, or Trumpet gourd. 
Common Bottle Gourd. Fl. Jul. Sept. Clt. 1597. Pl. trail. 
2 L. virra‘ra (Ser. l. c.) leaves roundish-cordate, somewhat 
repand, obsoletely denticulated, rough ; peduncles crowded, 1- 
flowered; fruit pear-shaped, striped lengthwise, puberulous. 
