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.Extensively climbing hairy; tendrils 2-3-iid. Leaves 4 in. diam,, reniform- 

 orbicular, 5-angled or somewhat 5-lobed, dentate, usually scabrous, punctate on both 

 surfaces, pubescent on the nerves beneath ; petiole 2 in. Male peduncle 6 in., flowers 

 often approximate near the summit; pedicels short, each carrying a smaM ovate 

 viscid entire bract sometimes obsolete. Fetais 5, |-1 in., yellow, often with elevated 

 fiairy green veins. Stamens 5. Female flower solitary, peduncle 1-3 in. Frtdt 

 0-12 in. Seeds | by nearly J in., usually black, very narrowly winged, smooth or 

 very sparingly tubercled.— The pedicels are rarely elongated (i. Satpatia, Wall); 

 one example of Falconer's has the racemes compound. The fruit being the part 

 eaten and attended to in cultivation is hence very variable : and no good character 

 founded on it can be drawn between this species and L, acutangula. 



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, 3, l, acutangrula, -ffiarJ. FL Ind.ni. 713; fruit elongate lO-angled 

 r ^t covered by spines or papilla.* DC. B-odr. iii. 302; Wall Cat. 6759; 

 ~f^" /• wi Oliv, FL Trap. Afr. ii. 530, exd, syn. ; Kurz in Joum. As, Soc. 

 i877, pt. ii. 101, exd, many syn, Oucumis acutangulus, Wall. Cat. 6736. 



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Nosth-West India ; Royle, Sikkim ; J. B. H. Assam; Masters, Plain of East 

 ^EfGAL; C, B.Clarke. Ceylon; Thwaites. — Distrib. Malaya. 

 - ■ Very near Z. pentandra from which it differs by having 3 stamens as noted by Rox- 

 ^gh and verified by Thwaites. The fruit is usually smaller, often only 3-4 in. — 

 Ihe figure of Z. fcetida in Cav. Ic. i. t. 9, shows clearly 5 stamens and is not 

 ■Roxburgh's plant. Rheede Hort. Mai. viii. t. 7, is much more probably Z. mgyptiaca 

 ^an this species. Z. ax^utangula No. 1106 in Herb. Wight is pentandrous and is 

 . ^9yp^i(^ca exactly. All these, and all descriptions founded on them, are not here 

 "icluded in Z. acutangula, Roxb. 



yAR. amara, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 715 (sp.) ; fruit oblong 10-angled without spines 

 ^ papillae. Wall, Cat, 6764 A; W. A. Prodr. 343 ; Dalz. ^ Gibs, Bomb. Fl. 102; 

 «. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 4, xii. 123. L. Plukenetiana, BC. Prodr. iii. 302. 

 ^omordica tubiflora. Wall. Cat. 6749.— From nearly all India especially the Western 

 ™e. Naudin, who retains Z. amara as a species, says it is " exceedingly near Z. 

 ^io,ngu%a but distinguished by the leaves a little smaller and sometimes whitish.*' 

 ine typical Z. amara has the leaves softly pubescent at least while young, for they 

 become in age scabrous. 



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; 4. L. echinata, Roa-b. Hort. Beng. 104; Fl. Ind. iii. 716; fruit ( 

 «oia densely covered with bristles. Wall. Cat. 6766 ; W. 8f A. Prodr. 

 ^"w- 8f Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 102 ; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 101. 

 «Ddaal, Hox'b. Hort. Benn. 104 : Fl. Ind. iii. 717. 



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Balsell. ScLVDE ; Stocks. Pubneah (Bengal) ; Kurz. Dacca ; C. B. 



, ,.,g not extensively, sparingly scabrous-pilose; tendrils 2-iid. Leaves 1-2 in. 



^ni., cordate, reniform-orbicular, entire or obscurely 5-angular or 5-lobed, or cut 

 ^ost to the base into 5 narrow sinuate-pinnatifid segments, dentate; petiole 

 j"'^ ^n. Male peduncles normally paired, one l-flowered the other racemed very 

 °^g 6 in, or more, pedicels 1 in. ; flowers small, white, without bracts. Filaments 3, 

 ^ ^th 2.celled anthers. Peduncle of the solitary female very short. Fruit \\ ^- 



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«iste*f^ not visible; spines j in., ciliate; 

 : y ^^" S^eds I in., many, slightly scabrous. 



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tW fl. -"•'^-^^"^, Edgw. in Journ. As. Soc. 1852, p. 270 (sp.); male raceme shorter 

 rj^^ the leaves, spines of the fruit fewer themselves glabrous.— Banda. Edgeworth.— 

 tli7 ®^ ^^® not more dissected than in some Bengal typical Z. echinata, nor are 

 ^ styles longer. The whole male raceme is much shorter than the accompanying 



•^^r^red male peduncle. 



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