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smooth at first, afterwards very rough, broad, 5 to 7-lobed with 

 small teeth, flowers long, yellow, often veined, stamens 5, 

 fruit several inches long, cylindric, striped when young, seeds 

 oval, blackish, with membranous margin. Gousdli, pdrosi. 



D. and G. have this only as cultivated, with the next. H. has it 

 as wild throughout India and Ceylon, and I believed it to be so in 

 N. Konkan. 



2. L. acutangula. Leaves 5 to 7-lobed, rough, flowers like 

 the last, stamens 3, fruit long, 10- angled; flowers bright yellow 

 of middle size. Turdi, dodki. 



This is the vegetable so 'commonly cultivated, and H. makes L. 

 amara ran turai, Karu dodki, only a variety of it, the leaves being 

 Bof cly hairy when young, and. the fruit with '10 sharp ridges. It is 

 a pretty climber, exceedingly common in hedges in Guzerat. The 

 flowers open in the afternoon. 



* L. echinata, sparingly rough and hairy, leaves roundish, cordate, 

 or kidney-shaped, sometimes deeply cut, flowers small white, fruit 

 roundish, densely prickly. Devdangri, Kukurvel. Guzerat (D.). Sind 

 (H.). 



3. MOMORDICA. 



1 . M. charantia. Rather a pretty twiner, stems hairy, some- 

 times angular, leaves palmately 5-lobed, sinuate, toothed, 

 flowers small, solitary, long-stalked, pale yellow ; a reniform 

 bract half way up the pedicel in the male flower, and near the 

 base in the female, fruit oblong ovate, covered with ridges and 

 tubercles. Kareli, panvad, omble. 



Commonly cultivated. A well-known vegetable. 



2. M. dioica. A large climber, nearly smooth, leaves 

 cordate entire or lobed, flowers large yellow, long-stalked, males 

 with a large hooded bract covering the calyx, females with a 

 small one near the base of the pedicel ; fruit ovate pointed, 

 covered with soft bristles, seeds truncated black with bright 

 red aril. Kartoli. 



S. Konkan. Very common (D.) ; throughout India (ff.). 



3. M. cymbalaria. Koot a large turnip-shaped tuber, stems 

 slender, smooth, leaves cordate, 5 to 7 -angled, flowers white or 

 yellow, pedicels longest in the female, fruit like turai, but 

 smaller and 8-angled without a lid. Kadawanchi. 



Sholapore districts. Also reported from Igatpuri, Sattara and the 

 Konkan ; but not in D. or G. Dec can peninsula (H.). 



4. CUCUMIS. 

 C. trigonus. Rough all over, leaves variously lobed, female 



