Plants of the Punjab. 617 
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CuimBING PLANTS WITH ALTERNATE ExstipunatEe Lospgp Luavss. 
Tricosanthes 
eucumerina, 
Jangli chichinda. 
CUCURBITACER. 
BE. Byte ni 609: 
The Plains. 
Tricosanthes 
anguina, 
Snake gourd, 
Chichinda. 
CUCURBITACER. 
F. B. I. ii. 610. 
The Plains. 
Cultivated. 
Herpetospermum 
caudigerum, 
CucURBITACE. 
Beb.ck, i 613; 
Himalaya, 
5-8,000 ft., 
east of the Sutlej. 
PETALS UNITED. 
1 in., 8-cleft ; fruit 13-2 in. diam., round, smooth, red 
striped with yellow, seeds many, in green pulp. The f-uit 
and roots are medicinal. 
like the last species, but annual, stem twining, leaves 
a little smaller, almost kidney-shaped, stalks 2 in., fruit 
ovoid-conical, streaked with white, then yellow, seeds 
in red pulp, corrugated. ‘The fruit is eaten as a vegetable 
and the young shoots as a pot herb. 
very like the last species, but the fruit is long, 1-3 ft.. 
cylindrical narrow, sometimes contorted, in colour like 
T. Cucumerina. The fruit is eaten as a vegetable. 
annual, velvety, tendrils 2-3-fid ; leaves 4-6 in. diam. 
ovate, little lobed, base notched, long-pointed, toothed, 
stalk 2-4 in.; flowers 14-2 in. diam., yellow, male and 
female flowers on different plants, male flowers racemed, 
main stalk 8 in., minor stalk 1 in., no bracts, calyx tube 
j-1 in. long, funnel-shaped, lobes 5, linear, corolla 5-lobed, 
almost to the base, lobes entire, stamens 3, short, anthers 
Valleys below Simla joined, female flowers solitary, shortly stalked, calyx and 
(Collett). 
Benineasa Cerifera, _ 
or hispida, 
White Gourd, Melon, 
Petha. 
CUCURBITACE. 
FOB? I. 1: 616. 
The Plains. 
Cultivated. 
corolla as in the male, style 4 in., tip 8-clett, stigmas 
2-lobed ; capsule 3 by 14 in., ovoid, narrowed to both 
ends, opening by 8 valves, triangular, seeds 12, } in. long, 
flattened, minutely pointed at one end, something like 
a beetle, embedded in fibrous, almost dry pulp. 
annual, softly hairy, stems stout, angular, tendrils 
2-fid; leaves 4-6 in. diam., kidney-shaped, round, base 
notched, more or less deeply 5-lobed, stalks 3-4 in. with- 
out glands ; flowers large, yellow, solitary, without bracts. 
male and female on the same plant, male flowers on stalks 
3-4 in., calyx tube bell-shaped. lobes 5, leaf-like, toothed, 
corolla 5-lobed, almost to the base, ovate with a broad 
tip, stamens 3, almost on the mouth of the tube, anthers 
free, protruding, female flowers calyx and corolla as in 
