LXII. CI fURlJlTACE.l:. 531 



V. 11 (1898) p. 040; Watt, Diet. Ecoii. I'rod. v. 5, p. l^o7.— Flowers : 

 June-Aug. 



Rare. Kanaka: Law I; N. Kanara, Woodrow. —Ditirmn. Throughout India; 

 Malaya, riiilippines. 



6. Momordica Cymbalaria, Fenzl, ex Nauclin, in Ann. ISci. Nat. 

 ser. 4, V. 12 (1859) p. i;j4. Monoecious ; root woody, tuberous, peren- 

 nial ; stem very slender, scandeut, branched, striate, pubescent or sub- 

 glabrous. Tendrils filiform, sliglitly pubescent, simple. Leaves orbicular- 

 reniform in outline, q*-l| by 1-2 in., glabrous or with a few scattered 

 hairs, punctate (hut not scahrid) on both surfaces, deeply cordate at the 

 base, obtusely but not deeply 5-7-lobed, the lobes short, acute or ob- 

 tuse; petioles |-]| in. long, striate, pubescent. Male flowehs in 

 2-5-flowered racemes ; peduncles |-1 in. long, filiform, pubescent, 

 ebracteate : pedicels j^-g in. long. Calyx hairy ; tube short, broadly 

 canipanulate, narrowed at the base ; lobes .| in. long, lanceolate, acute. 

 Corolla pale yellow ; segments obovate, obtuse, '^-^ in. long. Stamens 

 2: filaments very short, thick, flattened; anthers J^ in. long, one 

 2-partite, the others 3-partite, the cells conduplicate,"the connective 

 broad. Female flowers : Peduncles |-U in. long, slender, ebracteate. 

 Ovary fusiform, beaked : style stout ; stigmas 2, spreading, 2-partite. 

 Truit |-1 in. long, pyriform or broadly fusiform, narrowed into the 

 curved peduncle, fleshy, dark-green, 8-ribbed, sparsely hairy. Seeds 

 ^-:| in. long, broadly ovoid, slightly compressed, strophiolate, not mar- 

 gined ; testa polished and shining, dark-brown. Fl. B. I. v. 2, p. 618 ; 

 Hook. f. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. v. 2, p. 540 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. 

 Nat. V. 11 (1898) p. 040; AVatt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 5, p. 258. 

 Momordica tuberosa, Cogniaux, in DC. Monogr. Phan. v. 3 (1881) p. 454. 

 Luffa tuberosa, Koxb. Hort. Beng. p. 104. — Flowers : Nov. VERif. 

 KadvancJii. 



Deccan ; Sholapur districts, Igatpuri, Sattara, Nairne. S. M. Country : Dharwar, 

 Woodrmu ! — Distrib. India (W. Peninsula) ; Tropical Africa. 



3. LUTFA, Cav. 



Annual herbs. Tendrils 2-many-fid. Leaves 5-7-lobed (rarely sub- 

 entire) ; petiole without glands at the apex. Flowei's monoecious (rarely 

 dioecious), rather large, yellow or white, males and females often from 

 the same axil. Male flowers racemose. Calyx-tube campanulate or 

 turbinate ; lobes 5, triangular or lanceolate. Petals 5, free, spreading, 

 obovate or obcordate. Stamens 3 (rarely 5), inserted on the calyx-tube ; 

 filaments free or connate ; anthers exserted, free, one 1-celled, the others 

 2-celled, the cells sigmoid, often on the margin of a broad connective. 

 Eudimentary ovary glanduliform or 0. Female flowers solitary. 

 Calyx-tube produced beyond the ovary ; lobes as in the male. Corolla 

 as in the male. Staminodes usually 3, thick. Ovary elongate, sulcate, 

 angled or cylindric, 3-placentifcrous ; ovules numerous, horizontal ; 

 style columnar ; stigma 3-lobed. Fruit dry, oblong or cylindric (not 

 spherical), acutely ribbed or terete, smooth or echinate, fibrous within, 

 3-celled, terminated by the persistent style, usually circumscissile near 

 the apex. Seeds many, oblong, compressed. — Distrib. AVarmer regions 

 of the Old World, one species indigenous iu America : species 6. 



