CocerN1A. CUCURBITACE. 347 
duncle longer than the petiole; calyx campanulate: female solitary, very 
shortly peduncled, in the same axils with the male: berry ovate, rostrate, 
longitudinally striated, hairy, 2-6-seeded: seeds (black) compressed, with a 
thin margin ; sides gibbous.— Willd. sp. 4. p. 616 ; DC. prod. 3. p. 304 ; Spr. 
syst. 3. p. 15 ; Wall.! L. n. 6701 ; Wight! cat. n. 1119.—B. pilosa, Roxb. fl. 
Ind. 3. p. 726; in E. I. C. mus. tab. 469. s 
* 1081. (11) B. tubiflora (W. & A.:) stems slender, slightly scabrous : ten- 
drils simple : leaves longish petioled, cordate, 5-lobed, the middle lobe the 
longest and lanceolate, the others ovate, all sinuate and toothed, scabrous 
and hispid with short hairs on both sides: male flowers in a short corymbose 
raceme at the apex of a longish peduncle; pedicels persistent; calyx elon- 
gated, tubular ; anthers all united together (syngenesious) : females axillary, 
solitary, short-peduncled : fruit ovate, rostrate, sprinkled with a few short 
irs: seeds several, irregularly reticulated with shallow hollows, cylindrical, 
truncated at the one end, suddenly compressed at the other.— Wight ! cat. 
n. 1118. 
Our specimens were obtained from Klein’s herbarium, and marked as found 
at Trincomalee in Ceylon in February 1796. We do not know that it has 
been found on the Peninsula. Specimens of it were sent to Dr Wallich, 
without a name, so that it may be his B. ? Wightiana, Wall. L. n. 6703. 
t1082. (12) B. cal/osa (herb. Madr.)—Wall. L. n. 6710.—B. punctata, 
Spr. syst. 3. p. 15 (partly). 
t 1083. (13) B. cheirophylla (Wall.)—Wall. L. n. 6715. 
VII. COCCINIA. W.& A. 
Flowers dicecious. Calyx 5-cleft; segments subulate. Corolla much lar- 
gerthan the calyx, campanulate, 5-cleft ; segments ovate, acuminated. Marx. 
Calyx very short. Stamens all united at the base into one slender column. 
Anthers distinct and connivent, very anfractuose.—F Ew. Calyx-tube oblong, 
attenuated at the apex under the limb. Stamens abortive, triadelphous. 
Style short, 3-cleft: stigmas bifid. Pepo somewhat baccate, oblong, smooth, 
3-celled, when ripe bursting irregularly. Seeds numerous, ovate, compressed, 
covered with a gelatinous arillus.—Shrubby, climbing, glabrous. Tendrils 
simple. Leaves on longish (about an inch long) petioles, cordate, from 
roundish and entire to 5-angled or more or less 5-lobed, minutely toothed, 
glabrous, nearly quite smooth, minutely dotted on the upper side, furnished 
on the under near the base with several concave glands. Peduncles in both 
male and female plants solitary, axillary, 1-flowered, bracteolate. Corolla 
white, pretty large. Fruit before maturity marked with ten white streaks, ' 
when ripe bright red. 
. This genus is allied to Cucurbita in its campanulate and 5-cleft corolla; to Sechium 
in the mang hsishous stamens; to Jsetendion in its seeds and tendency of the fruit 
to split; and to Bryonia in the highly coloured fruit and its qp baccate nature. 
From both Momordica and Bryonia it is easily recognised by the 
nal column, and several other characters. - 
1084. (1) C. Indica (W. & A. ; leaves entire or 5-angled, or slightly 
| lobed- Wight / cat. x 1 i Bad grandis, Linn. mant. p. 126; DC. 
prod. 3. p. 305 (char. bad) ; Spr. syst. 3. p. 15 ; Wall. L. n. 6700.—B. moi- 
moi, Ser. in DC. l. c.—Bryonia n. 356. Linn. fl. Zeyl.—Momordica monadel- 
pha, Roxb. fl. Ind. 3. p. 708.—Cucurbita dioica, Roab. in E. I. C. mus. tab. 213. 
—Rheed. Mal. 8. t. 14; Burm. Zeyl. t. 19. f. 1, 2.—Rumph. Amb. 5. t. 166, 
: : P APR ec pA T. 736. 
corolla, the stami- | 
J 1.—# ; leaves deeply palmately 5-cleft, segments oblong, sinuate-lobed.— ~ 
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