44G BURMA, ITS PEOPLE AXD PRODUCTIOXS. 



■X- p,-i,;t smooth, at least not murieate or echiiiafe. 



*L. (MosiordicaI ctii>-drica, L. Common all over Burma, the Andamans, 



Z. pt'/ola and Cntfu-Picinna, Ser. and Kamorta. 



L. JEgijptiaca, Mill. 

 L. pentanilra, Ilosb. 

 L. leiocarjia, Kaud. 

 L. hidcraeea, Wall. 



Tha-bvrGt. 



Fmit terete, or only with obscure darker-coloured longitudinal streaks. 



*L. (Cucrjiis) ACTJTANGrLA, L. Chittagong, cultivated. 



L. foctida, Cav. 



Petola Bengalensis, Eumph. 



Fruit sharply lO-angular. 



Ltiffa aiiiara. Eoxb., with oblong fruits only 3-4 inches long and tapering at both 

 ends, is probably only a variety of the above (Kurz). 



*"* Fndt echinute or murlcaie. 



L. GKAVEOLEXs, Itosb. Cliittagong. 



Flowers moua^cious, yellow, the males and females from the same leaf-axil, very 

 shortly pedicelled. Fruit muricate. 



L. ECHiNATA, Eoxb. Arakau. 



L. bindaal, Eolb. 



Flowers dicEcious, wliite, the males in racemes, the fcmalis solitary. Fruits 

 densely echinate, the bristles sproadingly fibrillose or rarely ciliate. 



Br. Hooker states that the flowers in Indian specimens of this species are always 

 yellow, not white, as Eoxburgh describes and figures them. The species is common 

 enough in the plains of Korthcrn Bengal ; but never have I seen the flowers of it 

 other than white (Kurz). 



The fruits of Ziiffa, after the fleshy matter has decayed, present a firm fibrous 

 skeleton, which is exposed for sale in some chemists' shops in England as ' Egyptian 

 bath-sponge,' and a very eflicient abrader of the cuticle it no doubt makes. 



Benincasa, Sari. 

 Male and female floirers solitary. Fruit fleshy, berry-like, pulpy inside. Tendrils 

 2-3-cleft. Petiole without glands. 



*B. CEEiFEEA, DC. Cultivated all over Burma and Kamorta. 



Cuearlita I'epo, Eoxb. 



°° Stamens inserted below the mouth of the calyx. Anthers conniving or cohering. 

 \ Calyx famished with 1-3 scales at the bottom. 

 MoiroEDiCA, Linna-ns. 

 Calyx with 2 or 3 scales. Mahfoirers usually furnished with a large complicate 

 bract subtending the pedicel. Tendrils simple. 



X Monacious. Bracts only 2-3 lines long, at about the middle of the fliform peduncle. 



* jr. CHAEANTiA, L. Cultivated all over Burma. 



M muricafa, "Willd. 

 M. Senegalensis, Lamk. 

 Cucumis African us, Ldl. 

 Amara Indiea, Eumph. 

 Leaves palmatcly 5-lobed. Calyx-lobes oblong, acute. Bracts entire, at the apex 

 of the peduncle. Fruit few-seeded, small. 



