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Lxv. cucuRBiTACE^. (C. B. Clarke.) IGymnopetalum. 



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South Deccan Peninsula ; Wight ; *Canara, Hohenacker No. 662, Ceylon, as- 

 cending to 5000 ft., Walker y Gardner, Thwaites. 



Leaves 2 in. diam., more or less pubescent on both surfaces, denticulate, lobes acute 

 OP obtuse or ; petiole 1 in. Male racemed peduncle 2 in. ; flowers crowded, sub- 

 umbellate; bracts \ in., linear, pedicels often \ in. ; peduncle of the female flowers 

 I in. Calyx-tube ^ in., slender, with scattered hairs or very pilose, lobes small. Petah 

 J in. (yellowaccordingtoArnottandHook.f., white according to Thwaites). Rudiment^ 

 oi the ovary in the male flower simple. Fruit 1^-2 in., red, more or less hairy, not 

 ribbed. Seeds i by ^ in., without corrugations or angles. — Bryonia tufnflora, Wight 

 No. 1118 has the calyx-tube pubescent and is nowise distinguishable from the Ceylon 

 plant as Mr. Thwaites surmised in Enum. p. 127. 



4. G. integrrlfolium, Kurz in ^ Flora 1871, 295 ; leaves cordate-ovate 

 nearly entire, male peduncles 1-flowered solitary without bracts. Cucuniis m- 

 tegrifolius, Roxh. Fl. Ind, iii. 724 ; Wall. Cat. 6730. Trichosanthes officinalis, 

 Wall. Cat. 6694. T. integrifolia, Kurz in Joum. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 99. 



Bengal ; Roxburgh. Ponlong (Ireawadbt estuary) ; Wallich. ^ 



Stem scabrid; tendrils undivided in Wallich's specimen (2-fid in Eoxburghs 

 drawing. Leaves 3 in. diam,, very harshly scabrous above, densely villous beneath, 

 margin undulate scarcely denticulate ; petiole 1 in. Flowers monoecious, all solitary, 

 white; male peduncle 1^ in., female peduncle ^ in. Male: calyx-tube elongate, 

 densely brown-villous, teeth 5, lanceolate ; corolla divided nearly to the base, lobes 

 obovate, entire, yellow-veined, pubescent. Female : calyx and corolla as in the 

 male ; stigmas 3, oblong. Fruit from Roxburgh's figure |-| in. diam., orange-red, 

 globular, smooth,— Wall. Cat. 6694 consists of three leaves with one male peduncle 

 and calyx, and a detached fruit; the leaves resemble those of Trichosanthes diotca, 

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Extensively scandent, tendrils 2-3-fid. Leave9 long-petioled, ovate or 

 deeply 5-lobed. Flowers large, yellow, dioecious ; males frequently^ two 

 peduncles from one axil, one early deciduous l-flowered, the other beanng a 

 raceme without bracts ; females solitary on long peduncles. Male : calyx-tu^ 



widened campanulate subhemispheric, teeth o, 



calyx and 

 atic lobes ; 



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linear ; petals 6, ovate, nearly separate, entire ; stamens 3 ; anth 

 included, one 1-celled. two 2-celled. cells condunlicate. Female 



ovules horizontal, many, placentas 3, vertical. Fruit oblong, attenuate at botn 

 ends, 3-angular, G-ribbed, 3-valved nearly to the base. Seeds in each ceu 

 about 16, in two rows, horizontal, compressed, ellipsoid, smooth. 



Differs from Gymnopeialum by the large campanulate mouth to the calyx, by ^ 

 divided tendrils, and the anthers exserted from the tubular portion of the cai) 

 Named after J. Ware Edgar, CS.L 



1. W. tongrlensis, C. B. aarke in Joum. Linn. Soc. xv. 129. Gjoi- 

 nopetalum sp. No. 6, Herh. Ind. Or., II. f. ^ T. 



SiKKiM, alt. 6000-10,000 ft., very common ; H.f. J. B.^. ; Tonglo N., (^^^'Jj^^^l 

 Stem and peduncles nearly glabrous. Leaves 



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date, denticulate, nearly glabrous, ovate acute or 5-lobed or cut nearly ^^^f^^^^y^ 

 into narrow segments ; petiole 4 in. Male peduncle 8 in., pedicels |— f "^ 

 l\ in., pubescent, cylindric portion 

 Seeds 



Petals I in. Fruit 4 by 1^ !»: 

 in., packed in a fibrous almost juiceless pulp. — This is one 



of the three species 



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