1 24 The Flowering Plants of Western India. 



1. C. graveolem. Large shrub or small tree, leaves elliptic 

 acute, mostly smooth, stipules lanceolate pointed, flowers 

 numerous green with a disagreeable smell, fruit almost round, 

 smooth, shining. Ghilld. 



Konkan hills, Bombay, Bandora, Canara. 



2. C. esculenta (C. Icevigata, D.). Mostly smooth, leaves large 

 oblong, acuminated entire or obscurely serrated, thick and 

 shining, flowers numerous, greenish, fruit size of an acorn with 

 woody stalk, splitting into three and showing a brilliant red 

 aril. Mori, bokra. 



Common at Matheran and Mahableshwar ; Konkan hills ((?.). 



* C. rubescens, " distinguished from the last only by the minute 

 pubescence of the pedicels" (#.) but D. makes the leaves suddenly 

 and obtusely acuminated, with the midrib bright red. S. Ghauts (D.). 

 C. tomcntosa (C. anavinga, D.). Small tree, leaves oblong, slightly 

 oblique and cordate, stems and petioles reddish, flowers on the leafless 

 branches, fruit oval, shining, size of a nutmeg. Chilld, marsai, Karai. 

 Rajapore. Also Caranja (D.). Common throughout India (H.). 



Note. The native names given above are probably interchange- 

 able. 



The very small order Turneracese must be mentioned here on 

 account of a common garden plant Turnera ulmifolia, bhinjra, with 

 alternate simple leaves, and rather large yellow flowers growing on 

 the leaf-stalk ; calyx segments, petals and stamens 5, styles 3, stigmas 

 divided brush-like. 



ORDER 55. PASSIFLOREJE. Passion flowers. 

 Twining herbs or shrubs : leaves alternate with stipules, 

 flowers regular, calyx tubular with 5 segments, petals as many 

 or none, corona generally conspicuous, stamens 5, ovary superior, 

 styles one or three. 



This order is allied to Cucurbitaceae, but differs from that in the 

 superior ovary, and the central corona arising from the calyx. 



MODECCA. Climbers with unisexual flowers, disk with 5 

 glands opposite the sepals, staminodes 5, forming a membranous 

 cup surrounding the base of the ovary, dividing above into 

 filaments, and so forming a corona. 



* M. palmata. Root large and woody appearing above the 

 ground, leaves cordate acuminate, usually 3 to 5-lobed with 

 glands beneath, flowers rather large, yellow, bell-shaped with 

 rather deep lobes, fruit round, size of a crab apple, bright 

 orange : tendrils on the peduncle. Undal. 



Malwan and S. Ghauts ; rare (D.). 



A good many species of Passion flower (Passt/?ora) are cultivated 



