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Plants of the Punjab. 
CuimBING PLants wiTH ALTERNATE ExstipuLaTzeE Losep Lzaves, 
Cucumis sativus, 
The Cucumber, 
Kira. 
CUCURBITACEA. 
F/B} Ea; 620; 
The Plains to 
4,000 it. 
Citrullus colocynthis, 
Colocynth, 
Makal. 
CUCURBITACES, 
FB. T1620. 
The Plains to 
2,000 ft. 
Baluchistan 
(Aitchison). 
Citrullus vulgaris, 
The Waier Melon, 
Tarbuza. 
CUCURBITACER. 
PS Be a Ge. 
The Plains to 
2,000 ft. 
Baluchistan 
(Aitchison), 
Tricosanthes 
palmata, 
Lal vndrayan. 
CUCURBITACEA., 
HS, 2.01. 606, 
‘Lhe Plains to 
5,000 ft, 
Tn moist jungle, 
Valleys below Simla 
(Collett). 
Duuera below 
Dalhousie, 
PETALS UNUNITED. 
like the last species, but leaves larger, stalk longer, 
ovary covered with prickles, fruit 12 by 14 in., yellowish- 
green, slightly triangular, cylindrical. ‘wo varities—one 
with an oval fruit ripens before the rains and the other 
with a long fruit ripens towards the middle and end of 
the rains. 
perennial, rough, stems angular, trailing, tendrils 
2-fid ; leaves 23 in. by 2 in., ovate, 3-7-lobed, deeply divided, 
middle segment compound, pinnatifid, stalk 1 in. ; flowers 
1 in. diam., yellow, solitary, male and female on the same 
plant, in male flowers calyx tube bell-shaped, lobes 5, 
petals 5, } in., ovate with a broad tip, stamens 3, anthers 
scarcely joining, in female flowers calyx and corolla as 
in male flowers, style short, stigmas 3, kidney-shaped ; 
fruit up to 3 im. diam., round, variegated with dark green 
and white, pulp dry, spongy, bitter seeds 4-} in., not mar- 
gined. Colocynth is obtained from the seed-bearing portion, 
oil from the seeds and the root is used as medicine. 
very like the last species, but a great climber, young 
shoots woolly at the tips, leaves much larger, more 
divided, petals greenish without, fruit up to 10 in. diam. , 
oblong with rounded ends, coat greenish waxy, clouded, 
flesh red, juicy, seeds margined. Much cultivated; the 
fruit of the wild plant is bitter or sweet. 
PETALS UNITED. 
perennial, rough, stem angular, tendrils 3-fid, lateral 
single spiral; leaves 2-6 in. diam., more or less deeply 
8-7-lobed, base notched, toothed, roughly velvety, stalks 
1-3 in. ; flowers 14-3 im. diam., white, male and female 
usually on different plants, male flowers on 2 axillary stalks, 
one with a single flower, socn falling off, the other with a 
raceme, short at first, then growing to 6-10 in., bracts sheath- 
ing the raceme, broadly ovate, margins deeply toothed, 
calyx tube 4 in., funnel-shaped, lobes 5, lanceolate, toothed, 
corolla 5-fid nearly to the base, lobes 5, margins long 
fringed, stamens 8, shori, female flowers solitary, axillary, 
shortly stalked, calyx and corolla as in the male, style 
