Luffa. MONOECIA SYNGENESIA, 713 
axillary, cordate, glandular as in L, acutangula. Mar 
FLOWERS racemed, as in L, acutangu/a, but in this species 
the lowermost flower of the raceme is often female. Bractes 
as in L, acutangula. Filaments five, distinct. Anthers sub- 
equal, contorted, worm-like. FEMALE FLoweERs solitary, 
peduncled, axillary or the lowermost on the raceme. Calyx 
five-leaved, glandular. Nectary five-lobed, glands with 
woolly insertions. Stigma four-lobed. Fruit linear, smooth, 
striated, with ten deeper coloured streaks, but no elevations, 
from one to three feet long, and about three inches in diame- 
ter; internal structure as in the former. Seeds gray, with ele- 
vated dots; margin sharp, waved. 
The unripe fruit is eaten by the natives in their curries, 
like that of the former species, but is not so much esteemed. 
The seeds are generally sown by the root of a tree, on the 
huts of the natives, over which the plants run. 
2. L. acutangula, Roxb. 
Stems slender and smooth. Leaves five-angled, dentate, 
pretty smooth, Fruit short, clubbed, with ten sharp ridges, 
_ Seeds pitted. 
Cucumis acutangulus, Willd, iv. 612. 
Picinna. Rheed. Mal, viii. t. 7. 
Hind, Turai, 
Beng. Shinga. 
Luffa foetida, Willd, viii. 380. . : 
Ghorla-beera, or beerkay of the Telingas, for it is known 
equally well by either name in that country, [tis very gene- 
rally cultivated by the natives during the wet and cold sea- 
sons, I have never found it wild. 
Stems several, slender, running to a great extent but with 
fewer branches than any other species that I know, pretty 
smooth, five-sided. Tendrils three-cleft, Leaves as in Cu- 
Cumis sativus, but less rough. Stipules axillary, solitary, 
cordate, with glandular marks on one side, Mate FLOWERS 
_ pretty large, yellow, on long, erect, axillary racemes, the pe- 
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