Luffa. MONOECIA SYNGENESIA, 717 
nerally five-lobed, somewhat hairy, particularly the nerves, 
and veins on the under side; margins scollop-toothed. Pe- 
tioles as long as the leaves, ribbed. Stipules axillary, soli- 
tary, oblong, glandular, Mate, Racemes axillary, solitary, 
longer than the leaves, bearing many small, white flowers, 
on long pedicels. Petals obovate. Filaments’ three, two 
with twin anthers. Femate. Peduncles axillary, solitary, 
shorter than the petiole, one-flowered. Petals as in the male. 
Style three-cleft; divisions two-parted. Fruit oval, of the 
size of a nutmeg, armed with numerous, long’, rather soft, di- 
verging bristles, obscurely divided into three cells, by nu- 
merous dry fibres; opening at top with a stopple. Seeds se~ 
veral, ovate, compressed, scabrous, black. ? ; 
8. L. Bindaal, R, 
Dioecous, scandent. Leaves five-angled, dentate. Male 
flowers racemed ; the female solitary ; fruit round, echinate, 
with long, firm, straight, ciliate bristles. 
Found by Captain Hardwicke: in Hindoosthan. 
9, L tuberosa, R. re fi dal Fs 
Root tuberous and perennial. Leaves from five to seven- 
lobed, dentate. Male flowers on very short racemes ; the — 
JSemale ones solitary, denpibediantosh Fruit oblong» with 
eight sharp ridges. 5 
This is a rare species; it grows in iets and amongst 
bushes on the banks of water courses. 
Root perennial, tuberous, turnip-shaped, with small warts 
over it, and here and there fibrous roots from these warts. 
Stems slender, five-sided, climbing, smooth. T'endrils simple. 
Leaves cordate, from five to seven-angled, toothed or serrate, 
‘smooth, about two inches each way. MALE FLowERS a few 
on short, axillary racemes, white. Filaments two, one bear- 
ing three anthers, and the other two, FEMALE FLOWERS: 
axillary, solitary,long-peduncled, white, Aruit in formex- 
actly like that of L, amara; but without the stopple,and with 
