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short and simple: female flowers solitary: calyx-tube globose and hispid ; 
segments of the limb narrow-linear: fruit globose, glabrous ; flesh bas o 
ter.—DC. prod. 3. p. 302 ; Spr. syst. 3. p.47; Roab. fi. Ind. 3. p. 719; L 
L. n. 6732 ; Wight ! cat. n. 1105.— Moris. hist. 1. t. 6. f. 1. 
1063. (12) C. missionis (Wall.)— Wall. L. n. 6728.—Tranquebar. 
IV. LUFFA. Tourn.; Cav. 
Flowers monecious or rarely diwcious. Calyx 5-toothed; tube in the 
male campanulate, in the female oblong-clavate. Petals 5, distinct, some- 
what deciduous.—Marr. Stamens 5, distinct, 2-3-adelphous.—F xw. Stamens 
more or less abortive. Style 3-cleft. Stigmas reniform or bipartite. Pepo- 
nida becoming at length dry and inwardly fibrous, usually opening by the 
fall or decay of a lid or stopple at the apex, sometimes indehiscent. Seeds 
usually (always ?) with elevated or depressed dots.—Male flowers racemose : 
female solitary. 
1064. (1) L. pentandra (Roxb.:) lower leaves acutely angled, upper ones 
palmate with lanceolate segments : male racemes (large) on a long peduncle ; 
stamens distinct: calyx-segments of the female flowers covered with glands : 
fruit linear-oblong, smooth, marked with 10 longitudinal lines but not ribbed, 
(1-3 feet long and about 3 inches thick): seeds (gray) with elevated dots 
and sharp waved margins.—Roab. hort. Bengh. p. 70; fl. Ind. 3. p. 712 ; 
Wall. L. n. 6751.—L. Cattupicinna, Ser. in DC. prod. 3. p. 303.—L. Petola, 
Ser. l. c. (char. bad).—Cucumis pentandrus, Roab. in E. I. C. mus. tab. 459. 
—Rheed. Mal. 8. t. 8; Rumph. Amb. 5. t. 147. 
1065. (2) L. acutangula (Roxb.:) stems glabrous: leaves 5-angled or 5- 
lobed, a little scabrous or nearly glabrous: male racemes long peduncled ; 
stamens distinct : calyx-segments of the female flowers covered with glands: 
fruit (about a foot long and 2-3 inches thick) clavate, obtuse, or shortly 
pointed, pretty smooth, 10-angled, the angles sharp and smooth ; lid incon- 
Spicuous, not separating spontaneously: seeds (black), irregularly pitted, 2- 
lobed at the base.— Rozb. hort. Bengh. p. 10; fl. Ind. 3. p. 713; DC. prod. 
3. p. 302 ; Wall. L. n. 6759; Wight! cat. n. 1106.—Cucumis acutangulus, 
Linn.; Spr. syst. 3. p. 46; Roxb. in E. I. C. mus. tab. 458 ; Wall.! L. n. 6736. 
—Rheed. Mal. 8. t. 7 ; Rumph. Amb. 5. t. 149. 
Roxburgh, in his drawing of this species, represents only three stamens, 
but all our specimens agree with Seringe's description that there are five and 
distinct, Roxburgh describes the fruit obtuse, but he quotes the above figure 
of Rheede, where it is shortly pointed. 
1066. (3) L. amara (Roxb.:) stems slender: leaves a little scabrous, 
Toundish-cordate, slightly 5-7-lobed: male racemes long-peduncled ; sta- 
mens adelphous: fruit (3-4 inches long and 1 thick) oblong, es to- 
wards each end; acutely 10-angled; lid deciduous: seeds (blackis gray) 
marked with elevated minute black dots ; margin tumid, 2-lobed at the we. 
Roxb. hort. Bengh. p. 70 ; fl. Ind. 3. p. 115; Wall. L. n. 6754. a? ; Wight! E 
n. 1107.—L. Plukenetiana, Ser. in DC. prod. 3. p. 302.—Cucumis opercula- 
tus, Roxb. in E. I. C. mus. tab. 460.— Pluk. t. 172. f. 1. ^ 
In our specimens the stems are slightly scabrous: Roxburgh says they are 
as In L. acutangula. i ai 
1067. (4) L. echinata (Roxb. :) stems very slightly hairy : leaves somew 
airy, BE des on nein he veins underneath, about 5-lobed, repand- 
toothed: tendrils bifid: flowers small, dicecious ; male racemes longer than 
the leaves ; stamens triadelphous : fruit oval, echinate with long straight ra- 
ther soft diverging bristles: lid deciduous.—Rozb. ff. Ind. 3. p. 716 ; in E. I. 
C. mus. tab. 1694. 
