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



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II 2. C. vulgaris, Schrad, in Linncea 1848,412; leaves deeply divided or 

 but moderately lobed glabrous or somewhat haiiy hardly scahrid, fruit often 

 10 in, diam. sometimes much smaller. Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat, ser. 4, xi. 100; 

 Dalz. Sr Gibs. Bomb. FL 102 ; Kurz in Journ, As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 103. 0, 

 fistulosus, Stocks in HooK Keio Journ. Bot. iii, t. 3. Cucumis Citrullus, DC. 

 Prodr. iii. 301. Oucurbita OitruUus, Linn. ; Boxb. FL Ind. iii. 319 ; WaU. Cat. 

 6717 ; W.&A. Prodr. 351. 



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■ Throughout India, cultivated. — Distbib. Iu all warm countries of the world, cul- 



ti rated. 



Said to be annual while C. Colocynthis is perennial ; but the distinction between 

 tne cultivated form of C. Colocynthis and the divided-leaved forms of the water-melon 

 IS very small. The water-melon has either sweet or bitter fruit : when the latter, 

 It 18 Citrullus CTnarus of authors. — C. fistulosus, Stocks, has thick stems, leaves 

 sparingly lobed, and is plentifully supplied with long somewhat hispid hairs. — The 

 Water- Melon. 





12. CEPBAXiANDRA, Schroder 



Climbing herbs, scarcely hairy; tendrils simple. Leaves petioled, 5-angular or 

 5-lobed, toothed. Flowers dioecious, moderately large, all solitary and white in 

 the Indian species, ebracteate. JVIale : calyx-tube campanulate, short, limb 5- 

 lobed ; corolla campantilate, 5-lobed about half-way down ; stamens 3 ; anthers 

 «xsert, connate, one 1-celled, two 2-celled, cells conduplicate. Female : calyx 

 and corolla as in the male ; ovary oblong, style long vdth 3 bifid stigmas ; ovules 

 ^ny, horizontal : placentas 3, vertical. Fruit fleshy, indehiscent, cylindric, 

 soiooth. Seeds 



many, ovoid, compressed, margined, 

 extending to India and Malaya. 



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1. C. Indica, Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser, 5, v. IG; leaves 6-angular 

 occasionally 5-lobed, fruit 1-2 by J-1 in. Kurz in. Journ. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 

 103. Momordica monadelpha, Ro.vb. FL Ind. iii. 708. Bryonia grandis, Linn. 

 / Suppl. 126 ; Wall. Cat. 6700, except D, I, X, L. B. palmata, Wall. Cat. 

 V'll A, B, C. Coccinia indica, W. ^ A. Prodr. 347 ; Wight HI. 1. 105 ; Dc7ie. 

 «« J'acq. Voy. Bot. t. 72 ; Hooh. Ic. PI. 1. 138 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 673 ; 

 Oalz. 8f Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 103. 0. ScMmDeri. Naud. I. c. ser. 4, xii. 16. 0. 



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India, common. — Distrib. Malaya, Africa. 



n. diam.. 5-angular, papillose, seabrid ; petiole 1 in. Male : peduncle 



► jomted below the flower ; cal}^^ 

 triangular. Female peduncle abc 



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VAR. palmata, W. & A. Prodr. 348 ; leaves deeply lobed segments sometimes car- 

 ^^ and sinuate. B. alceaefolia. Herb. 5o«/er.— Principally in the Deccan Peninsula. 

 ^^*./. in Oliv. FL Trap. Afr. ii. 551 keeps C. quinqueloba {Schrad. in EckL # Zeyh. 

 5»w^ 280) distinct from this var., but it is not easy to do so.— Whether this plant 

 ^ Bryonia grandis, DC. Prodr. iii. 305 with aculeate fruit, or B. Mormoi of the same 

 *i?rk, also said to have aculeate fruit, is perhaps now not material. 







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?e climbing herbs, hispid or hairy ; tendrils 2-4-fid. Leaves petioled, cor- 

 ^^^ ovate, 5-aDgular or lobed. Flowers monoecious, all solitary, yellow, very 

 ge., Male: calyx-tube campanulate, lobes 5, linear or foliaceous; corolla 



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