Plants of the Punjab. 615 
setae 2 ERIE ANTE AALS LN ECR Cet NOS et ee ee Be 
CurmBING PLANTS witH ALTERNATE E\XsTIPULATE Lospep LBAVEs. 
Luffa acutangula, 
Kalv tort. 
CucURBITACEX. 
HB, fu...615. 
The Plains to 
3,000 it. 
Cucumis trigonus, 
Bislumbhi, 
mdrayan. 
CucURBITACESR. 
Reb. lea, 6f9: 
The Plains to 
3,000 it. 
Baluchistan 
(Frére). 
Cucumis 
prophetarum, 
CUCURBITACES. 
BL Be Fan 619. 
The Plains in the 
south of the Punjab. 
Baluchistan 
_ (C. B. Clarke). 
Cucumis Melo, 
The Melon, 
Kharbuza. 
CUCURBITACE. 
BB ali. 680- 
The Plains to 
2,000 ft. 
Cultivated. 
PETALS UNUNITED. 
on a stalk 1-3 in. long, calyx tube projecting above the 
ovary, lobes and petals as in the male, stigma 38-lobed ; 
fruit 5-12 in. long, club-shaped, smooth, slightly 10-ribbed, 
seeds in. long, many, narrowly winged, usually black, 
smooth or slightly knobby. Cultivated for its young 
fruit which is eaten as a vegetable: the dry iruit consists 
of a net work of fibres and is used as a flesh brush. 
very like the last species, but stamens 3, fruit smaller, 
sharply 10-angled. The young fruit is eaten like the last 
species, 
root perennial, stems annual, rough, tendrils short, 
unbranched ; leaves 1-2 in., palmately 38-7-lobed, or 5- 
angled, toothed, stalks 4-14 in. ; flowers 4 in. diam., small, 
yellow, males and females on the same plant, males celus- 
tered in the axils, females solitary, all shortly stalked, 
stalks 3-1 in., in male flowers calyx tube top-shaped, or 
bell-shaped, lobes 5, petals 5, stamens 8, anthers free, in 
female flowers calyx and petals ag in the male, style short, 
stigmas 3, blunt; fruit 14 in. long, ovoid, or slightly 3- 
angled, 8-striped or 10-striped. The fruit is sold as a 
drug and used as a purgative like Colocynth. 
like the last species, but stems whitish, leaves 3-5- 
lobed, smaller, fruit smaller, 1 in. long, green with pale 
white stripes and soft bristles. 
like Cucumis trigonus. but leaves larger, 3 in. diam., 
male flowers in clusters, fruit round, ovoid, long, or twisted. 
T'wo varieties are much cultivated—C. utilissimus, Kakri, 
the fruit is ova! to narrowly cylindrical and twisted to 38 
ft. long, eaten raw and cooked, the seeds are pounded and 
eaten as meal. C. Momordica, Tuti, phunt, fruit 1-2 ft. 
long, 3-6 in. diam., weighs 4-8 lbs., is cooked as a vegetable 
when young. : 
