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PLATE XXXI. LETTER XXVIII. 
MONOECIA. 
Momordica Elaterium. Spirting Cucumber. 
a a The male or staminiferous flowers. 
b b The female or pistilliferous flowers, with 
the large germ below the receptacle. 
c The male flower, showing the three fila¬ 
ments, with double anthers on two 
of them, and a simple anther on the 
third. 
d The germ, surmounted with the style, 
divided into 'three parts, each part 
sustaining an oblong gibbous stigma. 
e The divided part of the style, with the 
stigmas. 
f Two different views of a single stigma. 
