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Calyx-tube of male flower short ; anthers usually 

 exserted or sub-exserted, free or slightly coherent : — 

 Stamens inserted near the month of the calyx- 

 tube ; the anthers cohering slightly : — 



Male flowers in racemes or clusters; fruit more 

 or less fibrous, dehiscing by a transverse 

 lid near the apex ; tendrils 2-5-fid ... 4. Luffa. 



Male and female flowers solitary ; fruit not 



fibrous, very fleshy, indehiscent ; tendrils 2-fid 5. Benincasa. 

 Stamens inserted below the mouth of the calyx- 

 tube ; anthers more or less cohering ; male 

 flowers in racemes, usually bracteate ; tendrils 

 simple ... ... ... ... 6, Momokdica. 



Anther-cells straight, the connective produced, the fruit 



on a slender pedicel ... ... ... 7. Melothbia. 



Tribe II. Gynostemme^. Ovules pendulous ; female flowers 

 in panicles; stamens 3-5, anther-cells straight, filaments 

 connate near the base ; ovary 3-celled and with 3 placentas, 

 fruit indehiscent ... ... ... ... 8. Gynostemma. 



Tribe III. Zanonr.e. Ovules pendulous, female flowers in 

 panicles or racemes ; stamens 5, free, anthers straight ; 

 ovary with 3 placentas; fruit cylindric or clavate, dry, 

 1-celled, dehiscence circumscissile ; seeds winged : — 



Calyx-lobes 3, seeds winged all round ... ... 9. Zanoxia. 



Calyx-lobes 5, seeds winged at the apex only ,., 10. Alsomitra. 



1. HODGSONIA, H. f. &T. 



A large climber. Leaves coriaceous, 3-5-lobed, long-petioled ; 

 tendrils 2-3-fid. Flowers large, dioecious ; males in long racemes ; brabts 

 oblong, entire, deciduous ; females solitary. Male-calyx long-tubular, 

 with a shortly campanulate mouth and 5 short teeth; petals 5, connate 

 at the base, very long-fimbriate ; stamens 3, filaments very short; 

 anthers exserted, connate, linear, one 1-celled, two 2-celled, cells conda- 

 plicate. Female calyx and corolla as in tbe male ; ovary globose, 

 1-celled; style long ; stigmas 3, oblong, bifid, exserted; placentas 3, 

 parietal, near the base of tbe ovary, 2-ovRlate on each side. Frtdt 

 large, depressed-globular, ]2-grooved, flesh hard ; perfect seeds usually 

 six, each having a smallei*, commonly barren one, attached to its side, 

 flat-ellipsoid, with sunk veins. 



HoDGSONiA HETiiROCLrrA, Hook. fil. and Thoms. in Proc. Linn. Soc. 

 II, 257. Stem very long, often reaching 80 or 100 feet. Leaves palmate, 

 somewhat cordate at the base; the lobes entire, rarely slightly denti- 

 culate, acute ; both surfaces glabrous, minutely reticulate when dry, 

 6-10 in. long and as broad, the petioles 2 or 3 in. long. Male racemes 

 about as long as the leaves ; bracts solitary, oblong, acute, '5 in. long. 

 Cahjx rusty- tomentose externally, the tube 3 or 4 in. long, with a gland 



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