CUCURBITACEAE 457 
em long, solitary or few in each axil, males and females often in the 
same axil. Fruits ovoid or ellipsoid, pointed; about 2 cm long. (FI. 
Filip. pl. 365.) 
In open grass lands, occasional, fl. Sept.-Feb.; widely distributed in 
the Philippines, probably introduced. India to Japan southward to Malaya. 
2. CUCURBITA Linnaeus 
Coarse, herbaceous, hispid or hairy annual vines. Leaves cordate, 5- 
angled or lobed. Flowers large, yellow, monoeceous, all solitary. Calyx- 
tube campanulate, the lobes 5, linear or foliaceous. Corolla campanulate, 
5-lobed. Male flowers with 3 stamens inserted in the calyx-tube; anthers 
connate, one 1-celled, two 2-celled. Female flowers with an oblong ovary; 
style short; stigmas 3, bifid. Fruit very large, indehiscent, fleshy. Seeds 
compressed, margined, smooth. (The Latin name for the gourd.) 
Species 10, in the warmer parts of America, several now cultivated in 
all warm countries. 
~1. C. MAxIMA Duchesne. Calabaza (Sp.); Squash. 
A very coarse, prostrate or climbing, annual, herbaceous vine, reaching 
a length of 4 m or more. Leaves orbicular-cordate, hispid, 15 to 30 cm 
in diameter, shallowly 5-lobed, rather finely toothed, the upper surface 
often mottled. Flowers campanulate, erect, yellow, about 12 cm long, the 
corolla limb about as wide, 5-lobed, the male flowers with longer peduncles 
than the female ones. Fruit very large, variable in shape. (FI. Filip. 
pl. 320.) 
Commonly cultivated for its edible fruit, fl. all the year; throughout the 
Philippines. Cultivated in all warm and tropical countries, probably a 
native of tropical America. 
3. TRICHOSANTHES Linnaeus 
Slender or coarse herbaceous vines with 3- to 9-lobed denticulate leaves. 
Flowers white, the male peduncles usually in axillary pairs, one 1-flowered, 
the other racemose, the bracts large, small, or none. Calyx long-tubular, 
teeth 5, entire, serrate, or laciniate. Corolla deeply 5-fid, the lobes long- 
fimbriate; stamens 3, anthers connate, the cells conduplicate. Female 
flowers solitary. Calyx and corolla as in the male. Ovary 1-celled; style 
slender, 3- or 6-fid at the apex. Fruit globose or ovoid, smooth. Seeds few 
to many, compressed. (Greek “hair” and “flower,” from the fimbriate 
petals.) 
Species about 40, India to Japan southward to Australia, 3 or 4 in the 
Philippines. 
Male inflorescence without bracts; slender vines with small flowers and 
oe UB tS 2 oR AOR Ee SY IROL Se 9 Oa aa ee 1. T. cucumerina . 
Male inflorescence with large bracts; coarse vines with large flowers and 
ee Og RS os GE yt SS ae eee 2. T. quinquangulata 
1. T. cucumerina L. Melon-melonang, Melon-daga (Tag.). 
Scandent, herbaceous, 5 to 6 m high or less, the stems green, 4-angled, 
somewhat hairy. Leaves somewhat orbicular in outline, 7 to 14 cm long 
and broad, 3- or 5-lobed, the lobes broad, rounded or obtuse, the sinuses 
broad or narrow, rounded, the base broadly cordate, somewhat pubescent 
on both surfaces. Staminate inflorescence long-peduncled, axillary, cymo- 
sely 6- to 15-flowered, bracts minute or none. Calyx-tube dilated above, 
