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Mom or d', 



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Lxv. cucuRBiTACEiE. (C. B. Clarke.) 



617 



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WalL Cat 6746 ; W. ^ A. Prodr. 348 ; Bot. Mag. t. 2455 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 

 I. pt. 1. 663 ; Wight Ic. t. 504 ; Dalz. ^ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 102 ; Naud. in Ann. Sc. 

 ^f- set. 4, xii. 131; Kurz in Jmm. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 102. M. hiimilis, 



tV all. Cat. 6747. M. muricata, DC. I. c. ; Boxb. I. c. ; Wall. Cat. 6746 ; Mia. 

 l-c. M. senegalensis, Za7nk. ; DC. I. e. Oucumis africanus, Bot. Beg. t. 980.— 

 Rheede Hart. Mai. viii. t. 9, 10. ' 



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Throughout India, cultivated.— Distkib. Malaya, China, Tropical Africa. 



Leaves 1-3 in. diam., orbicular, glabrous or slightly pubescent, cut neariy to th& 

 base into 5-7 narrow sinuate or subpinnatifid lobes. 'KqXq peduncle 2-4 in., slender, 

 bract. Calyx-lobes ovate, acute. Petals f-f in., yellow. Female ;?<e^«wcfe 2-4 in., 

 slender, bracteate near the base; ovary fusiform, muricate. Fruit 1-3 in., rostrate. 



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2. in. Balsamina, Linn, ; JDC P/w7r. iii. 311; monoecious, bi-act very 

 Dear the top of the male peduncle orbicular denticulate variegated, fruit ovoid 

 naiTowed to both ends smooth. Mtq. FL Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 664; Boiss. FL 

 Orient ii. 757, excL syn. Wight ; Hook. / in Oliv. FL Trot). Afr. ii. 537, not 

 V Wallich, nor of W. ^ A. Prodr. 349. 



North -West India ; Boyle. Scinde; Stocks^ 



Ptojab; T. ThoTnson, 

 •DiSTiiiB. Malaya, Australia, Western Asia, Africa to the Cape. 

 Glabrous or nearly so. Leaves l\-Z in. diam., orbicular, pal 



mately 3-5-lobed to 



— -^ivuo UA- xjtjiiriy so. jjeaves i^-o m. uiam., oruicuiar, paimatexy o-tj-iuueu tv 



about^ the middle, lobes acutely lobulate, punctulate on both surfaces ; petiole 

 i-H in. Male peduncle 1-3 in. ; calyx-lobes ovate or oblong, acute ; petals \~hin., 

 yelloTnsh, black at the base. Female peduncle short, less than ^ in., ebracteate. Fniit 

 .,^^*» rostrate, red, usually quite smooth, in the example of Edgeworth's obscurely 



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and slightly muricate. Seeds ^ in., compressed, nearly smooth. 



M. diolca. Boxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 709 : dioecious, petiole without 



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bract near the top of the male peduncle, flowers large yellow, fruit densely 

 covered with soft spines. I)C. Prodr. iii. 312 ; W. ^ A. Prodr. 348 ; Wight 

 _ «. tt. 605, 506 ; Bene, in Jacq. Toy. Bot. t. 71 ; Dalz. 8f Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 102 ; 

 A«Mrf. ,„ ^nn. Sc. Nat. ser. 4, xii. 133 ; Thwaites Enum. 126. as to var. a. ; 



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Balsamina, Wall 



Prodr. 349, not of others. M. WaJlichii 

 Ba ^ 



subanmilatfl,. 7?/w^/. ex Kurz in Joum. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 102. Tricho- 



i: • »r ^. J/roclr. 341 

 ^'- /nd. ^«<. i. pt. 



i. 664. 



58 ; Miq. 

 na. TTflr//, 



6744 



Dennst 



WaU 



grandis, Tr««. C«<. 6700 



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.^^^^oughout India, from the Himalaya to Ceylon and Sinoapoee, ascending to 

 ^"«0 ft. alt. on the hills.— Distrib. Malaya. 



Leaves 2-4 in. long and broad, cordate, ovate, acute, entire, denticulate or more or 

 e^ 3-5-lobed, glabrous, often punctate beneath; petiole 1-2 in. Male pedmcle 

 (in If*' bract large, cowl-like, embracing the expanded flower, glabrous, thin or 



Missionis) thick soft pubescent; calyx-lobes oblong with a narrow termination ; 



, ] in., f^i-yeilow, the two 2-anthered filaments 2-fid half way down. Female 



^^uncles as long as the male, bra«t small usually near the base. Fruit 1-3 in., 



^fjpsoid, acute, without ribs. Seeds nearly ^ in., many, compressed, broad-oblong. 



Til 1^ ^^^ well-marked corrugations on the margins, nearly smooth on the surface. — 



ne large succulent Lower Bengal form cannot well be confounded with any other; 



form 



M. 



J «ng ofary prevents the female plants being mistaken): they usually have the 



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flowers on the same branch. 



form 



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