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united or distinct; stigmas 1-3, entire or 2-lobed or parted. 
Fruit a succulent or dry berry or gourd. Seeds lying in pulp 
or corky or fibrous substance, exalbuminous.—Herbs, with 
prostrate or climbing, very long stems, and simple or branched 
tendrils. Leaves alternate, petioled, exstipulate, palminerved, 
often multifid or lobed, sometimes 3-5-foliolate. 
Tribe 1. Cucurpirem. Ovules horizontal. Stamens usually three. 
Fruit decaying or bursting irregularly, rarely 3-valved. Seeds not winged. 
§ 1. Cucumerinee. Anther-cells flexuous or conduplicate (rarely straight 
in Cucumis and Momordica). 
Corolla rotate or bell-shaped ; limb divided wholly 
or nearly to the base. 
Calyx-tube short. 
Connective of anthers prolonged beyond the 
SME ee evel ns) (ey sh ke) v's, 4, 1 He SOUQU BIS. 
Connective not prolonged. 
Calyx-tube without internal scales. Ten- 
drilsusually branched . . ....- .- 
Calyx-tube with 2 scales between the sta- 
mens. Tendrilssimple ..... .- 
Calyx-tube long (at least in the female). 
Fruit a few-seeded berry . det ter caelrs 
Gourd dry and fibrous within ; seeds flat 
Gourd fleshy ; seeds with tumid border : 
Corolla bell-shaped, 5-lobed to or above the middle, 
rarely below it. 
Tendrils simple. Fruit a berry . . . . 4%, CEPHALANDRA. 
Tendrils forked or branched. Fruita gourd. . 8. CUCURBITA. 
§ 2. Melothriee. Anther-cells straight. Fruit a berry. (See Cucumis 
and Momordica in Tribe 1.) 
Anthers 3, all 2-celled. Seeds flat... ... 
Anthers 3, 2 of them 2-celled, the other 1-celled. 
Female flowers with 3 staminodia. Style with a 
». CITRULLUS. 
. Momorpica. 
. LUFFA. 
2 
3 
4. TROCHOMERIA. 
5 LAGENARIA. 
9. ZEHNERIA. 
tumid annulus at base. Seedstumid . . . 10. RayNncowocaRPa. 
Female flower with 3 staminodia. Style without 
disk at base. Seedstumid. . . . 11. PIsospERMA. 
Female flower without staminodia. Style with a 
cup-shaped disk at base. Seeds compressed . 12. MUKIA. 
Tribe 2. ZaANonrEm. Ovules and seeds pendulous. Stamens 4, anthers 
1-celled, straight, cohering in pairs. Fruit opening at the apex. Seeds 
with a broad wing teeta « i). Ld. GERRABDANDAUR. 
TriBeE 1. CucuRBITER. 
1. CUCUMIS, Linn. 
Flowers moneecious or dicecious.—Male: Calyx bell-shaped, 
5-fid. Corolla spreading, its limb 5-parted. Stamens 3, in- 
serted at the base of the corolla, one 1-celled ; anthers flexuous, 
rarely straight, terminated by a papillose, lobed prolongation 
of the connective.-—Female : Calyx and corolla as in the male ; 
