34 Materials for a Flora of the 'Malayan Teninsnla. 



narrowly T\'iiiged, smooth or Blightlv tul)ercled. DC. Prodr. Ill, 303 ; 

 Clarke in Hook, fil, Flor. Brit. Ind. II, 614, Cncumis aegyptiacus, Vesl. 

 in Alp. PI. Aegypt. p. 199, t. 58, 59. Momordica Lvfa, Linn. Spec, ed, 1, 

 1009. L. pentandra, Roxb. Flor. Ind. Ill, 7J2 ; W. & A. Prodr 343; 

 Wall. Cat. 6751 ; Wight Ic. t. 499. L, racemosa, Uoxb. 1. c. 715. 

 L, c/arafa, Koxb. Hort. Beng. 104 ; Flor. lud. Ill, 714. L. acntanguJa, 

 W. & A. 1. c, (not of Roxb.). L. cylindrica, Roem. Synops. II, t^S ; 

 Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 4, XII, p. 119; Kiirz in Journ. As. Soc. 

 1877, Pt. II, 100; Cogn. in DC. Mon. Plian. ]II, 456. L. Petola avd 

 Jj. Cattu-picinna, Seriiige in DC. I.e. L. Parvahi, Wall. Cat. 6758. 

 L. Gosa, hederacea and Satjpatia, Wall. Cat. 6753, 6755, 6757. Bryonia 

 cheirophijlla, Wall. Cat. 6715 A. 



Perak ; King's Collector 1020. Distrib. British India and in the 

 Tropics generally ; often cultivated. 



The synonymy of this species occupies more than a page in Cognianx's excellent 

 Monograph of the CucurlitacecB mDeCsmdoWe's Suites au Prodromus, Yo\. HI. I have 

 followed Messrs. Cogniaux andC. B. Clarke in reducing here Roxhurgh's three species 

 L. pentandra, L. racemosa and L. clavata, but I do so with considerable hesitation. 

 Neither in flower nor leaf do Roxburgh's figures of his L. clavata and L. pentandra 

 mncli resemble each other, whatever relation either of them may bear to M. Aegyp- 

 tiaca, Miller. The material of the Indian species in the Calcutta Herbarium is very 

 unsatisfactory, and I do not think the last word on them will be said until they have 

 been carefully cultivated side by side, and studied as they grow. 



6. Bknincasa, Savi. 



A large climber, softly hairy, tendrils 2- or 3-fid, rarely simple. 

 Leaves cordate, reiiiform-orbicular, more or less 5-lobed ; petiole without 

 glands. Flowers large, yellow, monoecious, all solitary, without bracts. 

 Male ; calyx-tube campanulate ; lobes 5, leaf-like, serrate ; petals 5, 

 nearly separate, obovate ; stamens 3, inserted near the mouth of the 

 tube ; anthers exserted, free, one 1-celled, two 2-celled, cells sigmoid. 

 Female ; calyx and corolla as in the male ; ovary oblong, densely hairy ; 

 style tliick, with 3 flexuose stigmas ; ovules numerous, horizontal ; 

 placentas 3. Frziit lai'ge, fleshy, oblong, pubescent, indehiscent. Seeds 

 many, oblong, compressed, margined. 



BttNiNCASA HispiDA, Cogn. in DC. Mon. Phan. Ill, 513. Annual. 

 Leaves on long petioles, reniform-rotund,- with 5-9 small lobes, all 

 toothed, 4-6 in. long and about the same in breadth ; petioles cylindric, 

 longer than the leaves, tendrils usually 3-fid. Male fioicers axillary, 

 solitary, peduncled, yellow, 1"5 in. in diam. ; teeth of the calyx ob- 

 tusely pinnatifid or undulate. Female flowers like the male, axillary, 

 solitary, peduncled ; calyx as in the male. Fruit sub-cylindric, obtuse 

 at-th« ends, smooth, hairy when young but glabrous and with a whitish 



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