124 LIX. CUCURBITACEA. 
stigmas 3, thick. Fruit a gourd, 3- or spuriously 6-celled, 
many-seeded. Seeds oval, compressed, not margined.— F7/. Cap. 
li. p. 494, 
Annuals or perennials, scabrous, with succulent stems, rarely wanting 
tendrils, and angular or deeply-lobed leaves. Flowers axillary, solitary or 
tufted, yellow. —9 ascertained Cape species, several others from Natal, of 
which incomplete specimens have as yet only reached us. 
2. CITRULLUS, Schrad. 
Flowers moneecious.—Male: Calyx bell-shaped, deeply 5-fid. 
Corolla 5-parted, flattish. Stamens 3, inserted at the base of 
the corolla, 2 bilocular, deeply parted, the third unilocular ; 
connective without any terminal appendage; anther- cells 
flexuous.—Female: calyx and corolla as in the male. Ovary 
with 3 prominent placentas, villous or smooth; style 3-fid; 
stigmas 3, thick. Fruit a globose, rarely oblong, 3- or 6- 
celled, many-seeded gourd. Seeds oval, compressed, with ob- 
tuse margins.— Fl. Cap. u. p. 492. 
C. vulgaris, a prostrate plant, with deeply 3-5-lobed leaves, forked ten- 
drils, and axillary yellow flowers, occurs on sandy flats in many places. It 
is the “ Kaffir Water-melon” and “ Bitter Apple” of the colonists, and a 
wild variety of the common European and Asiatic Water-melon. 
3. MOMORDICA, Linn. 
Flowers moneecious or dicecious.—Male : Panicled and ebrac- 
teate or bracteate or solitary, with the peduncle bearing a 
large, sessile, clasping bract. Calyx 5-cleft, with a very short 
tube, closed at the base with 2 or 3 horizontal or incurved 
scales. Corolla 5- parted to the. base, much longer than the 
calyx. Stamens 3, one 1-celled ; anther-cells flexuous or con- 
duplicate, rarely straight, free or connate. Ovary with 3 pla- 
centas ; style simple ; stigmas 3. Gourd fleshy, not fibrous, 
prickly, often bursting when ripe, with or without elasticity. 
Seeds compressed or tumid, enveloped in a fleshy pulp.— 
Fi. Cap. ii. p. 491. 
Annual or perennial climbers, with petiolate, lobed or compound leaves, 
simple, rarely 2-fid tendrils and yellow or white flowers.—4 ascertained 
Cape species, dispersed, and some imperfectly known, undescribed. 
4. TROCHOMERIA, Hook. f. 
Flowers moneecious or dicecious. Calyx with a cylindrical 
or funnel-shaped tube, and a 5-parted limb. Corolla spread- 
ing, 5-parted to the base; the lobes sometimes very long. 
Stamens 3 ; filaments inserted within the calyx-tube ; anthers 
subexserted or included, connivent ; cells conduplicate, 2 bilo- 
cular, the third unilocular. Female perianth as in the male. 
