852 Lxv. cucuRBiTACE^. [Zunonia. 



wings 175 in. across. Hah. Damp jungle climbing on trees or 

 shrubs. Rare. Perak, Gunong Bubu and Batang Padang River 

 (Kunstler). Disirih. India, Ceylon. 



(2) Z. Clarkei King, I.e. 41. 



A lofty climber 60 to 80 ft. long. Leaves coriaceous ovate 

 round acute, base broad emarginate ; nerves 5 to 7 radiating from 

 base, 2'5 to 3-5 in. long, 2-5 to 3 in. wide; petioles -75 in. long. 

 Flowers unknown. Fruit cone-shaped, ovoid cylindric, dark green 

 mottled Hghter, 5 to 8 in. long. Seed star-shaped with 7 or 8 

 projecting processes -i in. thick, brown and pustulate on the faces 

 I in. long; wings thin i in. wide. Hah. Rare. Hanging from 

 lofty trees. Selangor, Batu Caves. Perak, Kinta (Kunstler). 



10. ALSOMITRA, Benth. and Hook. fil. 



Large climbers. Leaves with. 3 oblong leaflets. Flowers small, 

 unisexual, white in panicles with filiform branchlets. Males calyx 

 rotate, 5-lobed, segments oblong acute. Corolla rotate, 5-lobed, 

 lobes blunt. Stamens 5 ; anthers oblong, straight i-celled. Female 

 ovary elongate, clavate i-celled. Styles conic 3 to 4. Stigmas 

 semilunar. Capsule elongate, clavate, truncate, apex 3-valved. 

 Seeds in 6 rows, corrugate incised on margin with a terminal mem- 

 branous wing. Species 9, Indo-Malaya, Australia, America. 



(i) A. clavigera Roem. Syn. Fasc. ii. 118 ; Hook. fil. Bot. Mag. 

 t. 6017; King, I.e. 42. Zanonia sarcophylla Wall. PI. As. Rar. 

 ii. 28, t. 133. 



Slender climber. Leaflets fleshy, blunt, base narrowed, sub- 

 sessile 1-5 to 2*3 in. long, -65 by i in. wide. Panicles 6 to 12 in. 

 long, lax. Flowers -i in. across. Capsule 1-5 in. long, -4 in. through. 

 Seeds muricate. Hah. In rocky spots. Kedah, Tanjong Sirih. 

 Lankawi, Pulau Langon (Curtis) ; near Kwah. Distrih. India, 

 Tenasserim. 



Cultivated Plants 



Luffa cegyptiaca Mill. Gard. Did. viii ; King, I.e. 33. Native names : 

 Petola Manis ; Ketola Manis. The Loofar. Slender long 

 climber with lobed leaves, 4 to 6 in. across, long tendrils. 

 Flowers light yellow expanding at dusk, 2 in. across; petals 

 rounded, tube short. Fruit oblong cylindric smooth, very 

 fibrous, 2 to 6 in. or more long. 



L. acuiangula Roxb. Native name : Petola Sanding. Chiefly 

 differs from the last in its lo-angled fruit, but these cultivated 

 Loofars require, as King points out, careful study from the 

 life. 



Benincasa cerifera Savi Bihl. Ital. ix. 15. Native names : Kundur; 

 Kundur China. The Wax Gourd. A large gourd with round 

 lobed leaves and yellow flowers 2 in. wide. Fruit oblong, 

 sub-cylindric 12 to 18 in. long, 8 to 10 in. through, hairy when 



