Hodgsonia.] 



LXV. CUCURBITACE^. 



843 



often compressed and corrugate on edge, many ; in capsular fruits, 

 winged. Species 600, whole world. {King, Journ. A.s. Soc. Beng. 

 Ixvii. (2), p. 24.) 



Female flowers solitary, fruit baccate. 

 Anther-cells conduplicate or sigmoid. 

 Petals cirrhiferous. 



Seeds 6, woody, large ; testa fibrous 

 Seeds numerous, small ; testa not fibrous 

 Petals entire, divided nearly at base. 



Calyx-tube elongate in male; anthers in- 

 cluded ...... 



Calyx-tube short ; anthers more or less 

 exsert. 

 Stamens insert below the corolla mouth. 

 Flowers yellow 



Corolla campanulate, divided half-way. 

 Flowers white ..... 



Anther-cells straight ; connective produced. 



Flowers very small, solitary .... 



Flowers, males corymbose .... 



Female flowers in panicles ; anther*cells straight. 

 Fruit a berry ....... 



Fruit a cylindric or campanulate capsule opening 

 by a lid; seeds thin winged. 

 Calyx-lobes 3 ; seeds winged all round 

 Calyx-lobes 5 ; seeds winged at top only . 



1. Hodgsonia 



2. Trichosanthes 



3. Gymnopetalum 



4. momordica 



5. Cephalandra 



6. Melothria 



7. Zehneria 



8. Gynostemma 



9. Zanonia 

 10. Alsomitra 



1. HODGSONIA, Hook. fil. 



Large climbers. Leaves thin or coriaceous, 3- to 5-lobed, 

 tendrils 2- to 3-fid. Flowers usually large ; males in long racemes ; 

 bracts oblong, entire. Females solitary. Male calyx-tube long, 

 mouth campanulate, teeth short, 5. Petals 5, fimbriate. Stamens 

 3 ; anthers exsert linear. Females, ovary globose, i-celled ; style 

 long. Stigmas 3, bifid. Fruit large. Seeds 6, large, flat, elhpsoid 

 with sunk veins. Species 2. 



(i) H. capniocarpa Ridl. Journ. F.M.S. Miis. x. 135. H. 

 heteroclita King, I.e. 25 partly, not of Hooker. 



Long climber. Leaves coriaceous, palmate, base cordate; 

 lobes entire, acute; nerves beneath hairy, 6 in. long, 7 in. wide; 

 petioles i in. long. Male raceme woody, 6 in. long, scurfy with 

 thick ovate bracts. Calyx-tube -5 in. long; lobes very short. 

 Corolla-tube 2-5 in. long, scurfy-pubescent, -2 in. wide when open. 

 Fruit 6 in. across, depressed globular grey-tomentose ; pericarp 

 woody. Seeds 2 in. long embedded in an oily pulp. Hab. River- 

 banks. Pahang River. Malacca (Maingay). Penang (Phillips, 

 Porter, Wallich). Distrib. Sumatra. 



2. TRICHOSANTHES, Linn. 



Climbers. Leaves entire or 3- to 9-lobed, toothed, tendrils 

 usually 2- to 5-fid. Flowers unisexual, white, nocturnal. Males, 

 peduncles usually in axillary pairs, one i-flowered, the other 



