223- CUCURBITACEAE — 224. CAMPANULACEAE 54! 



others poisonous fruits ; the fibres of the fruit are employed for making 

 sponges, hats, and various utensils ; the seeds are oily. Luffa L. 

 Tendrils absent. Leaves undivided. Flowers yellow, the male witliout 

 a rudimentary pistil. Fruit fleshy, ejecting the seeds when ripe. — 

 Species i. North Africa. A poisonous and medicinal plant. " Squirt- 

 ing cucumber." Ecballium A. Rich. 



43. Male flowers without a rudimentary pistil. Ovules few. Stem climljing. 



Tendrils two-cleft. Flowers in clusters, small, yellowish-green, mon- 

 oecious. Fruit small, globular. — Species i. Tropics Used as an 



ornamental and medicinal plant Bryonopris Am. 



Male flowers with a rudimentary pistil. Ovules numerous 44 



44. Connective of the stamens with a 2-cleft appendage at the apex. Tendrils 



simple, rarely wanting. (See 15.) Cucumis L. 



Connective of the stamens not prolonged at the apex. Tendrils 2 — 3-clelt. 

 Stem prostrate. Leaves lobed or divided. Flowers large, monoecious. 



45 



45. Calyx-segments leaf-like, serrate, recurved. Flowers solitary. — Species i 



{B. hispida Cogn.). Cultivated in various regions. The fruits are 



eaten and used in medicine Benincasa Savi 



Calyx-segments awl-shaped, entire. — Species 4. They yield edible 

 fruits ^chiefly from C. vulgaris Neck., water-melon), edible oily seeds, 

 and medicaments ; some are poisonous. {Colocynthis L.) 



Citrullus Neck. 



SUBORDER CAMPANULINEAE 



FAMILY 224. CAMPANULACEAE 



Leaves entire toothed or lobed, without stipules. Petals usually united 

 below. Stamens as many as the petals. Anthers turned inwards. Ovary 

 inferior or half-inferior, rarely [Lightfootia) superior, 2 — lo-celled, rarely 

 [Merciera) i-celled. Ovules inverted, numerous and axile, rarely few and 

 apical or basal. Style simple. Fruit a capsule, rarely a nut or {Canarina) 

 a berry. Seeds with fleshy albumen ; embryo straight. — Genera 26, species 

 400. (Including LOB ELI ACE AE and SPHENOCLEACEAE.) (Plate 149.) 



1. Anthers connate. Flowers more or less irregular, solitary or in racemes 



or panicles. [Subfamily LOBELIOIDEAE.] 2 



Anthers free, rarely {Jasione) cohering at the base, but then flowers regular 

 and in heads. 7 



2. Petals free. Flowers nearly regular, small, greenish-yellow, in many- 



flowered terminal and lateral racemes. — Species 2. Madagascar. 



DJalypetalum Benth. 

 Petals united below 3 



3. Corolla-tube slit down to the base or nearly so, at least on one side. Stamens 



free from the corolla or nearly so 4 



Corolla-tube not or but shortly slit 6 



