716 MONOECIA SYNGENESIA. Lvfftt, 



fruit, which like those oi' peniandra, acutmujida and clavata, 

 are eaten in their immature state. 



6. L. graveolens. Roxb. 



Leaves reniform, and scollop-toothed. F'ruit oblong, beset 

 with soft innocent prickles, while short papillae, and short 

 hairs closely clothe the interstices. 

 ' A native of the Rajmahl hills, from thence the seeds were 

 brought to the Botanic garden, where the plants blossom dur- 

 ing the rainy season, and the seed ripens about three months 

 afterwards. 



Stems running, as in the common cucumber, and nearly 

 as long as they, more slender, and somewhat villous. Ten- 

 drils from three to four-cleft. Leaves reniform, somewhat 

 lobed, and always scollop-toothed, surface armed with a few 

 minute denticuli. Flowers axillary, male and female mix- 

 ed, and blossoming in succession, though it rarely happens 

 that more than one of the female flowers are productive. 

 The male blossoms are larger and sub-sessile, the female 

 short-peduncled, with one or two glandular, sub-rotund 

 bractes on each. Fruit oblong*, about the size of a man's 

 thumb, armed with numerous, conical, soft, innocent points, 

 and between them covered with short hairs and little papillae ; 

 when ripe dark, of a brownish black, containing many black, 

 oval, compressed seeds, mixed with dry white fibres, as in L. 

 acutanffula, &c. 



The whole plant has a most disagreeable, heavy smell. 



7. L. echinata. Roxb. 



Dioecous, scandent. Leaves about five-lobed, scollop- 

 toothed. Male Jlowers racemed. Female ones solitary. 

 Fruit oval, echinate, with straight, long bristles. 



A native of the coast of Coromandel. It flowers about the 

 close of the rains. The seed ripens during th^ cold season. 



Stems herbaceous, scandent. five-sided, most slightly hairy, 

 one or two fathoms long. Tendrils two-cleft. Leaves ge- 



