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with a glabrous small bract to male flower : M, roiigera, Wall, has a large woollyi 

 bract : Af. Heyneaiia, WalL has the leaves deeply 3-lobate : M. Hamiltoniana, Wall. 

 has the bract foliaceous crumpled serrate. M. Balsamma, WalL is the typical M, 

 dioica, Roxh. Thwaites' M. dioica j8 denvdata is altogether remote from M. dioica 

 {see No, 5). 



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4. HI. cocblnclilnensis, Spreng. St/st. iii. 14; dioecious, petioles 

 glandular, bract near the top of the male peduncle, flowers large white, fruit 

 tnuricated, seeds lar^e. Kurz in Journ, As, Soc, 1877, pt. ii. 102. M. mixta, 

 Jioxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 709 ; W, ^ A. Prodr. 349 ; Miq. FL Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 664 ; 

 Bot Mag, t. 6145; Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 4, xii. 132. M. dioica, Wall. 

 Cat. 6760 A, B, C, D, E, F. Muricia cochinchinensis, Lour. FL Cochinch. 733 ; 

 DC. Prodr. in. 318. 



Bengal to Tenasserim, common. Deccan Peninsula ; Wight. Canara ; Law. 

 DisTRiB. Formosa, Philippines. 



Leaves 4-5 in, diam., cordate, orate, usually 3-lobed, glabrous or a little pubes- 

 cent, often punctate beneath, little dentate; petiole 2-3 in., almost invariably glan- 

 dular on its middle as well as apex. Male peduncle 2-6 in., bract often pubescent, 

 embracing the expanded flower ; petals 1-2 in., white tinged with yellow, 3 wiui 

 black spots at the base 2 with yellow glands ; the two 2-anthered filaments not 2-fid. 

 Female peduncle 1-2 in., bract small about the middle. Fruit 4-5 in., ovate, 

 pointed, bright red, very fleshy, without ribs, covered with conical points nearly 

 ^ in. high. Seeds J by | and | in. thick, many, horizontal, irregular, ovate, com- 

 pressed, black, corrugated on the margins, sculptured on the faces. 



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8. M. denudata, Thwaites Enum. 126 ; dioecious, leaves ovate-lanceo- 

 late, flowers small, many males on one raceme witi inconspic ^-«-+« fila- 

 ments 3, anthers conduplicate, fruit ovoid rostrate muricated 

 papillae. 



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Ceylon ; alt. 3000-4000 ft. ; Gardner, Thwaites, Walker. 



Slender, climbing, nearly glabrous; tendrils simple. Leaves 2-4 by 1-2 in., deeply 

 cordate, often 3-5-angled or sparingly 3-5-lobed, central lobe always long acute; 

 petiole 1 in. Mole peduncle 2 in., often somewhat panicled nearly from the base ana 

 10-20 mostly pedicelled flowered; bracts at the base of the pedicels minute; sepals 

 ovate, acuminate ; petals f-^ in. ; filaments inserted near the top of the calyx-tube, 

 anthers much exsert. Female pedu7icle 1 -flowered, about as long as the male, bract 

 minute near the middle. Fruit | in. long and broad, suddenly rostrate. , 



This species is evidently closely allied to the next which Sir J. Hooker removeU 

 from Luffa (where Eoxburgh placed it) because of its simple tendrils. But ^^^f^ 

 sert anthers, the shape of the flowers and their being pedicelled, all ally M. deniutata 



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. Cj^mbalaria, Fend in PL Kotschj^ No. 147 ; moncBcic 

 )rbicular, flowers small, males few on one raceme with inci 



pacts, filaments 2, anthers horseshoe-shaped, fruit obovate-obloug 



bbed smooth. Hook.f. in Oliv. FL Trop. Afr. ii. 540. Luffa ti^berosa, -^^/u-u. 



lort. Beng. 104; FL Ind. iii. 717; W. & A. Prodr. 344. L. amara, Wall- 



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Deccan Peninsula ; Wight, Mysore ; Heg7ie. Concan ; Stocks.— J)i^trib. Tro- 

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Soot a large woody tuber as in many others of the genus. Leaves 1-2 in. ^^^ 

 angular or slightly 5-lobed, middle lobe not elongated, glabrous or slightly pubescenw 

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