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Plants of the Punjab. 619 
Crimping Puants with ALTERNATE ExstTipuLATE LoBED LBAVEs. 
Cephalandra or 
Coccinia indica, 
Kandurt. 
CucURBITACES. 
EP. Bak waeo2k: 
The Plains to 
3,000 ft. 
Cucurbita maxima, 
The Common Gourd 
or Spanish Gourd, 
Kadu. 
CUCURBITACE. 
PSbe tei. O22: 
The Plains to 
4,000 ft. 
Cultivated, 
Cucurbita Pepo, 
The Pumpkin, 
CUCURBITACES. 
Bebe. 622; 
The Plains to 
4,000 ft. 
Cultivated. 
Cucurbita moschata, 
The Musk or Melon 
Pumpkin, 
Sitaphal, mtha kadu. 
CUCURBITACER. 
Ke Be ai 622; 
The Plains to 
4.000 ft. 
Crltivated. 
PETALS UNITED. 
perennial, root tuberous, hardly hairy, tendrils un- 
divided ; leaves 2-4 in. diam., 5-angled, or lobed, rough, 
toothed, base notched, stalk 1in.; flowers 1 in., while, 
solitary, without bracts, male and female on different 
plants, male flowers on astalk 1 in. long, jointed below 
the flower, calyx tube bell-shaped, short, lobes 5, linear- 
oblong, reflexed, corolla bell-shaped, 5-lobed half way 
down, lobes long, triangular, stamens 8, anthers joined, 
protruding, female flowers on a stalk }in. long, calyx and 
corolla as in the male, style long with 3 bifid stigmas ; 
fruit 1-2 by }-1 in., scarlet, ovoid or oblong, smooth, pulp 
red, seeds many, cvoid, flattened, margined, on Section 
the fruit looks like a pomegranate. The fruit is cooked 
and eaten when young, when ripe it is eaten uncooked. 
This plant also supplies a drug used in diabetes. 
annual, hairy, tendrils 2-4-fid ; leaves 4-6 in. diam., 
ovate, stiff, 5-lobed, lobes rounded, sinus between lobeg 
very shallow, base notched, stalk almost ag long as the 
blade, hairs soft ; flowers 3-4 in., yellow, all solitary, male 
and female flowers on the same plant, male flowers, stalk 
4 in., calyx tube bell-shaped, 5-lobed, lobes lanceolate- 
linear, fleshy, corolla bell-shaped, 5-lobed almost half way 
down, stamens 8, inserced low in the corolla tube, anthers 
joined, female flowers, stalk 14 in., calyx and corolla ag 
in the male, style short, stigmas 8, bifid ; fruit large, yellow, 
fleshy, oblong or flattened at both ends, stalk stout, corky 
striated, not grooved, seeds many. The fruit is very com. 
monly eaten as a vegetable and when ripe will keep good 
for months. 
like the last speees, but lea? lobes sharp-pointed, 
sus between lobes deep, hairs on leaf stalk stiff, stalk 
of fruit woody, strongly grooved. 
like the last species, but leaves soft, hairs of leaf stalk 
soft, calyx tube very short or none, lobes spoon-shaped 
or leafy at the tips, fruit smaller, paler colour. 
