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5. ii. Kleinli, W. ^ A. B-odr. 344; young fruit spinous, spines densely 

 wooUv. L. umbellata, Roe7n. Synops. ii. 63. Cucurbita umbellata, Heyrie %n 

 Herhl :^ottler \ Wall Cat. 6724; DC. Prodr. in. 318. 



. ■ Teavakcore ; Klein, Coromandel (?) Wight. 

 Agrees closely with L. echinaia and may be a variety of it, but the stamens 

 difiFer ; the filaments being three, of which two are biiid below the anthers. • 



8. BEMXNCASA,>Sra2^'. 



A large climber, softly hairy, tendrils 2-fid. Leaves cordate, reniform- 

 orbicular, more or less 5-lobed; petiole without glands. Flowers large, yellow, 

 moncecious, all solitary, without bracts. Male: calyx-tube campanulate, 

 lobes 6, leaf-like, serrate ; petals 5, nearly separate, obovate ; stamens 3, in- 

 serted near the mouth of the tube; anthers exsert, free, one 1-celled, two 

 2-celled, cells sigmoid. Female : calyx and corolla as in the male ; ovary 

 oblong, densely hairy ; style thick, with 3 flexuose stigmas ; ovules numerous, 

 horizontal ; placentas 3. Fi-uit large, fleshy, oblong, pubescent, indehiscent. 

 Seeds many, oblong, compressed, margined. 



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1. B. cerifera, Sam; DC. Prodr. m. 303 ; W. ^ A. Prodr. 344 ; Mt^. 

 Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 665 ; Nmid. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 4, xii. 87 ; -S^"'"! '" 

 Joum. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 101. Cucurbita Pepo, Lour. Fl. Cochmc. 596 ; 

 Ro.vh. Fl. Ind. iii. 718. 0. hisDida, Wall. Cat. 6723. C. farinosa, Blume 



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 short, campanidate (with 2-3 basal oblong incurved scales 

 corolla 5-partite nearly to the base ; stamens 3 (2 in M. Ci 

 short; anthers at length free, one 1-celled, one or two 

 duplicate, or in M. Cymbalaria horse-shoe-shaped. Female : calyx ana coroi^ 

 as in the male ; ovary oblong ; stvle long, stigmas 3 ; ovules very 1^^°.^' ^J " 

 zontal placentas 3. Fruit oblong or spherical, rough or smooth, ^^^^^T 

 cent or 3-valved, many- or few-seeded. Seeds obovate or complanate, ^^^ # 

 corrugate or sculptured.— Distrib. Species 26, chiefly in the warmer V^^Z^ 

 Africa, several in Tropical Asia, few in Tropical America.— The genus w xiei^ 

 artificially separated from Luffa by its simple tendrils. 



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. 1. M. Cbarantia, i«W; DC. Prodr. iii. 311 ; monoecious, bract &bon 

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