716 _ MONOECTA SYNGENESIA, Luffa. 
fruit, which like those of pentandra, acutangula and clavata, 
are eaten in their immature state. 
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6. L. graveolens, Roxb. 
Leaves reniform, and scollop-toothed. Fruit oblong, beset 
with soft innocent prickles, while short papille, and short 
hairs closely clothe the interstices, 
A native of the Rajmahl hills, from thence the seeds were 
brought to the Botanic garden, where the plants blossom dur- 
ing the rainy season, and the seed ripens about three months 
afterwards, 
Stems running, as in the common cucumber, and nearly 
as long as they, more slender, and somewhat villous, T'en- 
drils from three to four-cleft, Leaves reniform, somewhat 
lobed, and always scollop-toothed, surface armed with a few 
minute denticuli. Flowers axillary, male and female mix- 
ed, and blossoming in succession, though it rarely happens 
that more than one of the female flowers are productive. : 
The male blossoms are larger and sub-sessile, the female 
short-peduncled, with one or two glandular, sub-rotund 
bractes on each, Fruit oblong, about the size of a man’s 
thumb, armed with numerous, conical, soft, innocent points, 
and between them covered with short hairs and little papillz ; 
when ripe dark, of a brownish black, containing many black, 
oval, compressed seeds, mixed with dry white fibres, as in L. 
acutangula, &c. 
The whole plant has a most disagreeable, heavy smell, 
7. ‘I; sehiante, Roxb, 
Dioecous, scandent, Leaves about five-lobed, scollop- 
toothed, Male flowers vacemed. Female ones solitary. 
Fruit oval, echinate, with straight, long bristles, 
A native of the coast of Soruaindek: It flowers about the 
close of the rains, The seed ripens during the cold season. 
Stems herbaceous, scandent, five-sided, most slightly hairy, 
one or two fathoms long. Tendrils two-cleft. Leaves ge- 
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