712 MONOECIA SYNGENESIA, Luffa. 
peduncled, smaller, Corol that of the male with a long gib- 
bous tube, that of the female shorter, and sub-cylindric. 
Border of five, large, spreading, obovate divisions. Stamens 
within the tube. Style the length of the tube. Stigma three- 
cleft, Fruit one-celled, oblong, ten-ribbed, rough with 
short stiff hairs, particularly the ribs, about two inches long, 
by three quarters of an inch in diameter, when ripe, orange 
coloured, bursting slowly,ex posing the smooth thick margin- 
ed seeds disposed in three rows and enyeloped in a soft dark 
greenish aril, 
LUFFA. Tournf. 
Male ealyx five-toothed, Corol five-petalled, Filaments 
generally three, Female calyx and corol as in the male. 
Pepo inferior, becoming dry and inwardly fibrous, opening 
by the falling or decay.of a lid at the apex. 
1. L, pentandra. Roxb. 
Leaves angular lobate, or palmate, Stamens five. Fruit 
linear, marked with ten straight lines like ridges, Seed with 
elevated dots and sharp waved margins. \ 
Petola. Rumph. Amb. v. t. 147. 
Momordica Luffa. Willd. iv. 603. 
_ Cattu picinna. Rheed, Mal. viii. t, 8, 
Beng. Doondool,. 
~ Purula Kindi and Tita purala, a wild variety. 
‘Telling. Nuni-beerd. 
_LEhave only found this plant in its cultivated state, It is 
considerably larger then acutangula in all its parts, and is 
cultivated at the same season. 
Tendrils from four to six-cleft, Leaves plese petiok 
ed, the lower ones five-angled with the angles acute, the su- 
perior ones palmate; segments conic, lanced, very acute ; all 
slightly serrate, pretty smooth, from six to twelve inches each 
way, Petioles striated, a little channelled. | Stipule: ma 
