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bloom when ripe, ]2-18 in. long and from 8-10 in. in cliara. Seeds wliite 

 with tumid margins, '5 in. long and '15 in. broad. Cucurhita hispida, 

 ThuQb. Flor. Jap. (1784), p. 322; Bl. Bijdr. 931; Wall. Cat. 6723. 

 C. Pepo, Lour. Flor. Coch.-Chin. p. 593 ; Roxb. Flor. Ind. Ill, 718 (not 

 of Linn.), lienincasa cerifera, Savi in Bibl. Ital. IX, 159; DC. Prodr. 

 Ill, 303; W. et Arn. Prodr. 344; Miq Flor. Ind. Bat. I, Pt. I, 665 ; 

 Clarke in Hook. fil. Flor. Br. Ind. II, 616. Cucurhihi villosa, Bl. Bijdr. 

 931 ; DC. Prodr. Ill, 317. C.farinosa, Bl. Bijdr. 931. Cucurhita alba, 

 lioxb. in E. Ind. Comp. Mns., tab. 457 (ex W. et Arn.). Gymnopetalum 

 septemlobum, Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I, Pt. I, 679. Lagenaria dasystemon, 

 Francli. et Sav. Enuni. PL J op. 1, 173. 



NicOBAR AND ANDAMAN IsLANDS ; cuUiy&ied, King's Collectors. Dis- 

 TRiB.^ — Malayan Archipelago, Australasia, China, Philippines, British 

 India ; cultivated. 



6. MoMORDiCA, Linn. 



Climbing by simple tendrils. Leaves cordate, petioled, undivided 

 in the Indian species. Flowers yellow or white, monoecious or dicecions, 

 females solitary, peduncled; males solitary or racemed, bracteate or not. 

 Male ; calyx-tube short, campanulate with 2-3 basal oblong incurved 

 scales (ex Hook. f. ) lobes 5 ; corolla 5-partite nearly to the base ; stamer)R 

 3 ; filaments short ; anthers at length free, one 1-celled, one or two 

 2-colled, cells conduplicate or horse-shoe-shaped. Female ; calyx and 

 corolla as in the male ; ovary oblong ; style long, stigmas 3 ; ovules 

 very many ; placentas 3, horizontal. Fruit oblong or spherical, rough or 

 smooth, indehiscent or 3-valved, many- or few-seeded. Seeds obovate or 

 complanate, smooth, corrugate or sculptured. Distrib. — Species 25, 

 chiefly in the warmer parts of Africa, several in Tropical Asia, a few 

 in Tropical America. 

 Leaves entire : — 



jNIale pedicels ebr;icteate ... ... ... 1. M. ClarTceana. 



Male pedicels with a. bract close to the flower ... 2. M. suhangrdata. 

 Leaves 3-lobed, the lobnles entire ... ... 3. M. Cochinchinensis. 



Leaves 5-7-lobed, the lobules sinuate-dentate or lobu- 

 late ... ... ... ... ... 4. M. Charantia. 



1. Momordica Clarkeana, n. spec. King. »S^^em slender, 4-angled, 

 glabrous, 20-30 feet long. Leaves thinly membranous, broadly ovate, 

 never lobed, acute, the base deeply cordate or emarginate, both surfaces 

 quite glabrous ; length 3-5 in., breadth 3-4 in. ; petiole 1*5-2 in., slender, 

 eglandular. Male jlowers '75 in. in diam., on filiform pedicels several 

 form a leaf-axil, or in few-flowered lax racemes; calyx-lobes puberulous, 

 bioad, obtuse, their margins membranous and glabrous; corolla deeply 

 divided into 5 broad blunt lobes, puberulous. Female flower unknown! 



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