(240) TENT AMEN FLOR^ LUTCHUENSIS. 507 



31. Luffa, L. Sp. PI. ed. 1, p. 1009; Lam. Encycl. IV, 

 p. 240; Lour. Fl. Cochincli. p. 590; AVilld. Sp. PI. IV, 

 p. 603. 



LÛTCHÛ, cult, ex Tashiro in MS. 



DiSTRiB. Native country uncertain ; cultivated through- 

 out the tropical and subtropical zones of the world. Also 

 cultivated in Japan, China and India. 



Benincasa, Savi. 



'' B. cerifera, Savi, in " Bibl. Ital. IX, p. 158 (1818) "; 

 Ser. in "Mem. Soc. Phys. Genèv. Ill, pt. 1 (1825) t. 4," et 

 in DC. Prodr. Ill, p. 303 ; Wight et Arn. Prodr. Fl. Pen. Ind. 

 Or. I, p. 344 ; " M. Rœm. Syn. Pepon. p. 62 "; Miq. Fl. Ind. 

 Bat. I, pt. 1, p. <oQö', " Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 4, XII 

 (1862) p. 87"; Hook. f. in Oliver, Fl. Trop. Afr. II, p. 532; 

 Clarke, in Hook. f. Fl. Prit. Ind. II, p. 616 ; Forbes et Hemsl. 

 Ind. Fl. Sin. I, p. 315. 



B. hispida, Cogn. in DC. Monogr. Phanerog. HI, p. 

 513. 



Cucurbita cerifera, Fisch. " Cat. Hort. Gorenk, ex Savi, 

 in Bibliot. Ital. IX (1818) p. 158." 



C. farinosa, Blume, Bijdr. p. 931 ; Ser. in DC. Prodr. 

 Ill, p. 317 ; " M. Rœm. Syn. Pepon. p. 91." 



C. hispida, Thunb. Fl. Jap. p. 322 (1784) ; Willd. 

 Sp. PI. IV, p. 608; Blume, Bijdr. p. 931. 



C. Pepo, Lour. Fl. Cochincli. p. 593 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. 

 • III, p. 718 (non L.). 



C villom, Blume, Bijdr. p. 931 ; Ser. in DC. Prodi'. 



