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X X Dia-ciom. Bracts of the male (and sometimes of the female) floirers just below 

 the flower and emhracing the calyx, ^1 inch long or longer. 



Leaves 3- to 5-lobed. Calyx-lobes linear, acuminate. Seeds about 3 lines long. 

 M. sri!ANGCL.VTA, Bl. Cliittagong and Pegu. 



Leaves cordate, not lobod, or only angular. Bracts pubescent or velvety. Calyx- 

 lobes oblong, blunt. Seeds about 3 lines long. 



M. (^Iuricia) CocnixcniNENsis, Lour. Tropical forests of Pegu and Tcnasseiini. 



Zucca Conimersiana, Sor. 

 Leaves 3- rarely 5-lobed, witb the lobes acuminate. Bracts often hirsute. Calyx- 

 lobes oblong, acuminate. Seeds about an inch long. 



*M. DioicA, Roxb. Burma {fide Mason). 



Sa-byet. 



TnLADIANTHA, Bioige. 



C'ahjx with a single scale. Bracts of male flowers dimorphous, the inner ones 

 smaller and imperfect. 



T. DUMA, Bung. Pegu Eangc. 



Gymnopetalum Uorsfieldii, Miq[. 



+ I Calyx without scales. 

 Crcniis, Liniieeus. 

 Connective produced beyond the author-cells. Tendrils simple. 



X Flowers on slender pedicels, several together in the axils of the leaves. 



*C. SATr\-ns, L. Cultivated. 



C. momordica, Roxb. 



Ovary muricate, spindle-shaped. Male flowers by 3-6, females solitary. 



*C. Miao, L. var. « Cliittagong. Ava and Pegu. 



C.flexu'isus, chate and dudaim, L. Kamorta. 



C. deliciosnx, Roth. var. /i cultivated generally. 



C. conomon, Thhg. 

 C. titilissimus, Roxb. 

 C. cicatristriatus, Stocks. 



Ovary densely villous or pubescent, usually oblong or elliptical. Male and female 

 flowers usually mixed. 



var. a C. puhescens, "Willd. ; C. Melo agrestis, Naud. ; C. trigoniis, Bth. ; C. 

 Maderaspatanus, Roxb. uon L. All parts much smaller. Fruits onh' as hirge as a plum, 

 from oblong to turbinate, not edible. Plowers smaller and shorter pediccllcd, usiudly 

 only by 2-3 in the leaf-axils. Considered by Naudin to be the wild stock of the 

 cultivated melons. 



var. li. cult/I. All parts more robust. Fruits larger and often very largo, 

 variously shaped. Flowers nearly an inch across, on lung filiform pedicels, usually 

 by 3-5 irom the leaf-axils. 



CiTHUi.i.fs, Schrader. 

 Connective not prolonged. Stigmas renil'orm. Tendrils usually 2-3-cleft. 



*C. VULGARIS, Schrad. Cultivated generally. 



Cucurhila citndlus, L. 

 C. flstulosus, Stocks. 

 Augur ia Indica, Rumph. 



X X Corolla bell-shaped, o-lobed to the ihiddle or somewhat further down. 



CEPnALAXUKA, Schradcr. 



Male floieers solitary or nearly oymosc. Stigmas narrow, 2-lobed or -parted. 

 Tendrils simple. 



