130 The Floivering Plants of Western India. 



This is another very small species, found in hedges in the Konkan, 

 Gazerat, and Sind. 



* C. conocarpa (jEchmandra c. D.) differs from the last in the 

 sessile conical fruit ; the seeds not margined, as the others are 

 slightly. Mdhddevi, Shivaling. Guzerat (D.). 



* Rhyncocarpa fcetida (^Echmandra rostrata, D.) appears to be very 

 like the last two, but hairy and strong-smelling, the leaves round or 

 ovate cordate, toothed, seeds margined, stamens with a crested con- 

 nective. Guzerat (D.). 



11. CTENOLEPIS. 



C. Garcinii (Zehneria g. D.). Leaves bristly, rather rough, 

 lobes deep rounded, bracts large, kidney-shaped, pectinated, 

 flowers salver-shaped white, calyx scarcely visible, fruit red, 

 horizontally egg-shaped. Jhali. 



Surat. Guzerat, Cutch and Deccan. It is a small species, a good 

 deal like Corallocarpus. 



* C. cerasiformis (Zuhneria c. D.) like the last, but the round scarlet 

 fruit is in clusters, seeds 2, rather large. Guzerat and Sind : known 

 apparently only to Dalzell and Stocks. 



Zanonia. Flowers in large panicles, males stalked, females sub- 

 sessile, stamens 5 on a fleshy disk. * Z. Indica, smooth, leaves large, 

 oval, flowers pale yellow, females much the largest, fruit the shape 

 of a candle extinguisher, about 4 inches long. Near Vingorla (D.). 



The following also are cultivated : 



Cucurbita maxima, the common gourd, dudhi bJiopali ; C. moscliata, 

 the musk melon, Kali dudU: C. pepo, the pumpkin, Kaula, ddmgar : 

 C. ovijera, the vegetable marrow : Lagenaria vulgaris, the white 

 pumpkin or bottle gourd, haria kaddu. A variety of this is the bhopla, 

 used for crossing rivers, but I rather think that this name is used for 

 all sorts of gourds, to many of which G. Sand's fanciful description 

 might apply : " The pumpkins, haughty leviathans of this verdant 

 sea, ponderously sprawled their great orange-coloured stomachs 

 over their broad and sombre leafage." 



ORDER 57. BEGONIACEJE. 



Succulent herbs, leaves simple, alternate, unequal-sided with 

 stipules, flowers unisexual without corolla ; male calyx of 2 

 unequal pairs of sepals, females of 5 to 2 segments ; stamens 

 indefinite, ovary inferior, styles 2 to 4. 



A tropical order variously placed by botanists. The unequal- 

 sided leaves and coloured flowers without corolla, some showy and 

 some delicately beautiful, are easily recognizable. " Leathery me- 

 lastomae, and succulent-stemmed, lop-sided leaved, flesh-coloured 

 begonias are typical of tropical American forests." Belt. 



