316 LIV. CUCURBITACEJE. [ Lagenaria. 
nective. Ovary in the females from obovoid to dare par with 3 placentas, 
and numerous horizontal ovules; style short, thick, 3 bifid stigmas. 
Fruit large, menge: with a hard rind and fun ngou s fie "r "Be eds variously 
—Large climber. - Tendrils 2-branched. omg white, both males 
e genus consists y ofa ve? species. 
1. L. vulgaris, Ser. in DO. Prod. iii. 299. A coarse climber, o 
emitting a musky o odour, 1 more or less pubescent or villous. Leaves rather 
large, wei orbicular-cor ate, angular and denticulate or obscurely or 
shortly lobed. Tendrils usually 9-branched. Male flowers rather large, 
vili. on peduncles of 2 to 4 in. Calyx-tube turbinate, about j in. long; 
lobes or teeth linear, shorter than the tube. Corolla expanding to 2 or 3 in. 
diameter. Female. flowers rather smaller, on shorter peduncles. Fruit very 
variable in shape and size. 
Quee Fro pol pes Sound to Port Denison, Thozet.—The species appears to 
be ee ous in Asia and Africa, but is much cultivated and establishes bc, in many 
tropical and subtropical posits It includes the Jo¢t/e- and many other 
e e 3. LUFEA, Cav. 
Calyx in the males, and free part of it above.a narrow tube in the females, 
campanulate or turbinate, with 5 teeth. Corolla rotate, deeply divided into 
oblong-obovate or obcordate lobes. Stamens in the males 3 or rarely 5; 
nective without any appendage. Ovary in the females elongated, with 3 
placentas and many eal ovules ; style columnar, the stigm 
into 3 bifid lobes; rudimenta gynocium in the males a small gland. 
dry, oblong or cylindrical, terete or ribbed, fibrous inside, the sma 
conical end (or base of the style) cireumsciss and deciduous. 
compressed.—Prostrate or climbing annuals, often large. 
3- or 7-lobed. Tendrils branched. Flowers rather large, yello 
Hs males in pedunculate racemes, the females solitary. Fruits usually rather 
arge. 
us comprises a few Asiatic an of African species. The Af 
ralian species appear both of them to E et ln ec inde ones ; Qe of them also 
vane e 
Fruit sm e 
Frot uge or muricate . ie ee ett al 
L. zgyptiaca, Mill. Dict. ; vef in DC. Prod. iii. 303. A 
Ze Leaves large, broad, the lower ones 5-angled, the al Ven ra 
or less deeply 5-lobed, the lobes, at Teint the central one, FL Male 
above eg ctae more or less scabrous. Ten wer 
E L. egypliact- 
2. graveolens: 
SEN E from 2 or 3 to 8 or 10 in. long, = oth, vik nil 
pentandra, BOX 
