1 26 The Flowering Plants of Western India. 



short, bell-shaped, style long with 3 bifid stigmas, fruit oblong, 

 more or less cylindric. 



7. BRYONIA. Flowers small, male and female clustered in 

 the same axils, calyx widely bell-shaped, teeth 5, small, style 

 slender, 3-divided at the top, fruit round. 



8. MTJKIA. As the last, but style thick. 



9. ZEHNERIA. Flowers all corymbose, or the females solitary, 

 calyx bell-shaped, style cylindric, 3-lobed, surrounded at the 

 base by an annular disk. 



10. CORALLOCARPUS. Flowers very small, males long 

 peduncled, females sessile or nearly so, stamens nearly sessile 

 at the mouth of the calyx tube, berry ovoid, splitting near the 

 base. 



11. CTENOLEPIS. Flowers minute, males in racemes, females 

 solitary in the same axils, filaments very short, seeds margined. 



Note. All gourd-like fruits tend to vary very much in shape : 

 bottle gourds (and probably other sorts) may be made to take various 

 shapes by strings or other compresses being fastened round them 

 when young. 



Note. I recommend, as specially interesting, the chapter on 

 Cucurbitaoeae in Hehn's " Wanderings of plants and animals." 



1. TRICHOSANTHES. 



1. T. palmata, A very large climber, running over trees, 

 with trifid tendrils and deeply-lobed toothed leaves, flowers 

 large and handsome, calyx lobes deeply toothed, fruit like a 

 small orange. Mukdl, Kaundal. 



The Konkans and Ghauts, not very common. 



The thickly fringed petals mark this genus, but there may possibly 

 be a confusion in the identification of this, and of Modecca palmata. 



2. T. Cucumerina. Climbing in hedges, tendrils trifid, leaves 

 broad cordate, lobed or angled, toothed, flowers delicate and 

 pretty, ovary hairy, fruit oblong pointed, orange-coloured when 

 ripe. Padval, karu padval, jangli parol. 



One of the commonest climbers in Guzerat : in S. Konkan com- 

 paratively rare. Throughout India and Ceylon (H.). 



T. Anguina, the snake gourd, Chikonda, parol, is cultivated for its 

 very long curiously twisted fruit. 



2. LUFFA. Towel gourds. 1 



1. L. JEgyptiaca. A large climber, tendrils bifid, leaves 

 1 Prom the fibrous fruits being used as flesh rubbers. 



