528 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAl HIST. SOCIETY, Vol. XXVI. 



Momordica /}alsa7mna, li. Sp. P\. {1763) 1009. 



Loc: Jodhpur : Mandor (6660 !). 



Distrib.: Africa, W. Asia, Indo-Malaya, Australia. 



Fl. aud fr. iu October. 

 Momordica dioicci, lloxh. in Willd. Sp. PI. IV (1805) 605. 



Loc: Jaisalmer: Jaisalmer, sand (No. 6659 !), Bada Bag (No. 6658 !). 



Distrib.: Indo-Malaya. 



Fr. in November. 



Luff a Cav. 



Luffa aeyyptiaca Mill. Diet. ed. 8 (1768). 



Loc: Jodhpur: Bhikamkor (No. 6655!) Jai.salmer : Bada Bag (No. 



6656 !). 

 Fl. in October and November. 

 Luffa acutangula, Roxb. Hort. Beng. (1814) 70. 



Loc: Jaisalmer: Amarsagar (No. 6657!). Jodhpur: Balarwa (Nos. 



6709 !, 6671 !). 

 Fl. in November. 



Cucumis L . 



Cucumis triffonus, Roxb. Hort. Beng. (1814) 70. 



Vern. N. : Kachri (Macadam). 



Loc: Jodhpur : Osian (No. 6654 !), Balarwa (No. 6701 !), Balsamand 

 (No. 6653 !), Mandor (No. 6647 !), Phalodi (No. 6648 !). Jaisalmer : 

 Vinjorai (No. 6652 !), Devikot (Nos. 6649 !, 6651 !), Loharki (No. 

 6700 !), Sodakoer (No. 6650 !), not uncommon in fields and cul- 

 tivated places, in large quantities between Dabla and Jaisalmer 

 (Macadam.) 



Distrib: Persia, Afghanistan, Indo-Malaya, N. Australia. 



Fl. and fr. in October and November. 



Uses : Fr. eaten. 

 Cucumis meld, L. Sp. PI. (1753) 1011, i-ar. ac/restis, Naud. in Ann. Sci. 



Nat. ser. 4, XI (1859) 73 and XII, 110. 



Loc. : Jodhpur : Kailana (No. 6640 !), Osian (No. 6646 !), Barmer 

 (No. 6612 !), Phalodi (No. 6643 !), Jaisalmer : Vinjorai (No. 6636 !), 

 Amarsagar (No. 6637 !), Jaisalmer, sand (N<^. 6638 !), near Devikot 

 (No. 6639 !), Vinjorai wet ground (No. 6641 !), near Bap (No. 6644 !), 

 near Loharki (No. 6711 !). 



Fl. in October and December. 

 Cucumis pri)j)hc-tarum, L. Cent. Amoen. Acad. IV (1759) 295. 



Loc. : Jaisalmer : Devikot (Nos. 6635 !, 6634 !), Amarsasar (No. 6669 !). 



Distrib. : Trop. Africa, Arabia, Baluchistan, Sind, Rajputana. 



Fl. and fr. in November. 



CitnUlus Neck. 



Citrullus colocynthis, Schrad. in Linntea XII (1838) 414. 

 Vern. N. : Tastumba, Tumba. 



Loc : Jodhpur : Jodhpur (No. 6624 !), Balarwa (No. 6706 I), Kailana 

 (No. 6704 !), Phalodi (No. 6627 !), Osian (No. 6633 !), Mandor (No. 

 6630 !), Bhikamkor (No. 6626 !), near Badka (No. 6622 !), Barmer 

 (No. 6623 I), Jaisalmer : near Devikot (No. 6625 !), Vinjorai (No. 

 66291), Jaisalmer, rocky plateau (Nos. 6631!, 6632!), Sodakoer, 

 riverbed (No. 6628 !), Amarsagar (No. 6705 !), Loharki (No. 6703 !), 

 very frequent in sandy placen between Balotra and Jaisalmer, parti- 

 cularly between LTtarni and Undu where large patches of ground are 

 often thickly covered with the fruit (Macadam). 



