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



[Lagenaria. 



Cultivated throughout India.— Disthib. Cultivated in the tropics and warm 

 temperate zones of the whole world. 



Leaves often 6 in. diam., softly pubescent on both surfaces, more or less 5-angular 

 or 5-lobed. Male peduncle often 6 in., female 1 in. Calyx-tube ^ in., pubescent. 

 Petals 1-2 in. Fruit often 1^ ft, in India usually bottle- or dumb-bell-shaped. 

 Seeds | by f and ^ In. thick, with an impressed groove parallel to and near the 

 margin. 



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Climbers, large or small, pubescent or nearly glabrous ; tendrils 2-5-fid. 

 Leaves cordate, usually 5-angular or 5-lobed ; petiole without glands at its 

 apex. Flowers yellow or white, monoecious, males and females often from the 

 same axil; females solitary or panicled, males on long or short racemes or 

 clustered. Male: calyx-tube top-shaped, lobes 5, triangular or lanceolate; 

 petals 5, obovate ; stamens 3, rarely 6, filaments 3 free or connate ; anthers ex- 

 serted free, one 1-celled, the others'^S-celled, cells sigmoid often on the mai^n of 

 the broad connective. Female: calyx-tube shortly produced above the ovary; 

 lobes and corolla as in the male; ovary oblong, style cylindric, stigma 3-lobed; 

 ovules very many, horizontal. Fruit large or small, oblong (not spherical), 

 smooth or angular or spinous, idtimately fibrous, not succulent, 3-celled, usiially 

 circumsciss near the top. Seeds many, oblong, compressed. — Distrib. Species 

 10, in the warmer regions of the Old 

 indigenous in America. 



* Stamens 6. 



World several widely cultivated, one 



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1. Z.. grraveolens, Itoxl. Fl. Ind. iii. 718 ; male pedicels clustered in 

 the axils without bracts, females often in the same axils 1-3 on the peduncle 

 each 1-bracteate, fruit with niunerous soft bristles. Wall Cat. 6752 ; Naud. 

 in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 4, xii. 124 ; Kurz in Jaurn. As, Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 101. 



SixKiM, alt. 1000-2000 ft.; J, i).K Eajmahal Hills; Roxburgh. Plain of 

 East Bengal ; C. B. Clarke. Chittagong ; X:ttr^.— Distrib. North Australia. 



Stems long, little villous ; tendrils 3-5-fid. Leaves 3 in. diam.. reniform-orbicular, 

 5-angled, denticulate, punctulate, scabrous above, pubescent on the nerves beneath; 

 petiole 2-3 in. Wd[Q pedicels few, much shorter than the petiole; petals ?' i^°'' 

 yellow, entire; stamens 5. Female peduncle short, sometimes divided with 2-«) 

 flowers, each pedicel carrying a small ovate entire thick bract ^ in. Fruit 2 by 1 in-» 

 covered with papillae, scarcely spinous, obscurely lO-striate, dehiscing horizontouy 



near the top, stopple without papillae, 

 fibres, smooth, not margined. 



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, ii. 63 ; 



2. Z.. ae^yptiaca, Mill ex Hook.f. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. ^^O ; maje 

 flowers racemed on long peduncles, fruit elongate clavate smooth lO-ribbea o 

 somewhat 10-angular. DC. Prodr. iii, 303. L. pentandra, Boxb. Fl. I^ut. i". 

 712 ; W. ^ A. Prodr. 343 ; Wall. Cat. 6751 ; Wiyht. Ic. t. 499. L. racemosa, 

 Jioxb. I.e. 715. L. clavata, lioxb. Hort. Beng. 104, Fl. Ind. m. ^i^- ^^ 

 acutangula, W. 8f A. I. c, not of Roxb. L. cylindrica, Roem. Synop 

 Navd. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 4, xii. p. 119 : Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, pt. u 

 100. L. Petola and Oattu-picinna, Serinae in DC. I.e. L. Parva^, W_<w^ 

 Cca. 6758. L. Gosa, hederacea and Satpatia, Wall. Cat. 6753,_ 6765,^b70/ 

 Bryonia cheirophylla, Wall. Cat. 6715 A. Momordica LuflEa, Ltnn 

 Sort. Mai. viii. t, 8, tcith manif other synonyms for which see Nattdin '•5',;' . : ■ 



ThoTighout India very common, often cultivated.— Disthib. Cultivated throug ou 

 the tropics, native country uncertain (Naudin). 



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