Momordica.] Lxv. cucurbitace^. 849 



black. Female peduncles i to 2 in. long. Fruit ovate or globose, 

 red with conical spikes all over it, 4 to 5 in. through. Seed black 

 ovate, edges lobulate. Hab. River-banks. Pahang, Tembeling; 

 Tahan River. Selangor, Batu Caves; Semangkok Pass. Perak, 

 Temengoh. Penang, Penara Bukit (Curtis). Kelantan, Kwala 

 Aring (Yapp). Distrib. India, China, Malaya. 



5. CEPHALANDRA, Schrader. 



Leaves 5-angled or lobed toothed. Flowers rather large, white. 

 Male calyx campanulate, short, 5-lobed. Corolla campanulate, 

 short, 5-lobed. Stamens 3 ; anthers exsert conduplicate. Females 

 as male. Ovary oblong ; style long. Stigmas 3 bifid. Fruit 

 cylindric. Species 12, all African but one. 



(i) C. indica Naiid. Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 5, v. 16; Clarke, in 

 Hook. fil. F.B.I, ii. 621. 



Leaves 2 to 4 in. long, 5-angled, scabrid ; petioles i in. long. 

 Male peduncles i in. long. Calyx-lobes linear-oblong. Corolla 

 I in. wide, pure white. Female peduncles '25 in. long. Fruit 

 I to 2 in. long, "5 to i in. through, scarlet. Hab. Cultivated by 

 Javanese and believed to be introduced from Java. Singapore. 

 Johor, Kukub. Distrib. Malay isles. Native name : Pepasan. 



6. MELOTHRIA, Linn. 



Small climbing herbs. Leaves deltoid or ovate, truncate or 

 cordate, entire or 3-lobed. Flowers very small, yellow or white. 

 Males and females often from the same axil. Male pedicels long, 

 clustered on long peduncles. Female long-pedicelled. Male calyx- 

 tube short, teeth 5. Corolla 5-lobed. Stamens 3, in the middle 

 of calyx-tube ; anthers free, straight, connective prolonged. 

 Female ovary oblong; style long. Stigmas 3, sub-globose. Fruit 

 globose or fusiform. Seeds oblong compressed margined. Species 

 55, tropics. 



Fruit not beaked. 



Fruit globose, red ; leaves ovate-cordate . . (i) M. affinis 



Fruit oblong, white ; leaves triangular . . . (2) M. indica 



Leaves widely 3-lobed, sagittate . . • (3) M. odorata 



var. triloba 

 Fruit beaked, fusiform (4) M. marginata 



(i) M. aflinis King, I.e. 38. 



Climbing 4-angled. Tendrils bifid. Leaves ovate-cordate to 

 triangular often 5-lobed, denticulate, scabrid-hispid on both sides, 

 1-35 to 4-25 in. long, 1-5 to 3*25 in. wide; petioles '5 to i in. long. 

 Male and female flowers from same axil. Males in many-flowered 

 umbels on pedicels i to 2 in. long; pedicels 20, glabrous, -35 in. 

 long. Flower 'i in. across, globose pubescent. Calyx-teeth 

 subulate 5. Fruit globose red, -4 to -5 in. through. Seeds obovoid, 

 pitted. Hab. Johor, Batu Pahat. Pahang, Pekan. Selangor, 



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