LIX. CUCURBITACE^. 123 



united or distinct; stigmas 1-3, entire or 2-lobed or parted. 

 Fruit a succulent or dry berry or gourd. Seeds lying in pulp 

 or corky or fibrous substance, exalbuminous. — Herbs, with 

 prostrate or climbing, very long stems, and simple or branched 

 tendrils. Leaves alternate, petioled, exstipulate, palminerved, 

 often multifid or lobed, sometimes 3-5-foliolate. 



Tribe 1. CucuEBiTE53. Ovules horizontal. Stamens usually three. 

 Fruit decaying or bursting irregularly, rarely 3-valved. Seeds not winged. 

 § 1. Cucumerinece. Anther-cells flexuous or conduplicate (rarely straight 

 in Cucumis and Momordica). 



Corolla rotate or bell-shaped ; limb divided wholly 

 or neai'ly to tlie base. 

 Calyx-tube short. 



Connective of anthers prolonged beyond the 



cells 1. Cucumis. 



Connective not prolonged. 



Calyx-tube without internal scales. Ten- 

 drils usually branched 2. Citeullus. 



Calyx-tube with 2 scales between the sta- 

 mens. Tendrils simple 3. Momoedica. 



Calyx-tube long (at least in the female). 



Fruit a few-seeded berry 4. Tegchomeeia. 



Gourd dry and fibrous within ; seeds flat . . 5. Luffa. 

 Gourd fleshy ; seeds with tumid border . . 6. Lageis^aeia. 

 Corolla bell-sbaped, 5-lobed to or above the middle, 

 rarely below it. 



Tendrils simple. Fruit a berry 7. Cephalandea. 



Tendrils forked or branched. Fruit a gourd . . 8. Cucuebita. 



§ 2. MelothriecB. Anther-cells straight. Fruit a berry. (See Cucumis 

 and Momordica in Tribe 1.) 



Anthers 3, all 2-celled. Seeds flat 9. Zehneeia. 



Anthers 3, 2 of them 2-celled, the other 1-celled. 

 Female flowers with 3 staminodia. Style with a 



tumid annulus at base. Seeds tumid . . .10. Khtnchocaepa. 

 Female flower with 3 staminodia. Style without 



disk at base. Seeds tumid 11. Pisospeema. 



Female flower without staminodia. Style with a 



cup-shaped disk at base. Seeds compressed . 12. Mukia. 

 Tribe 2. Zanonie^. Ovules and seeds pendulous. Stamens 4, anthers 

 1-celled, straight, cohering in pairs. Fruit opening at the apex. Seeds 

 with a broad wing 13. Geeeaedanthus. 



TeIBE 1. CuCUEBITEiE. 



1. CUCUMIS, Linn. 



Flowers monoecious or dioecious.— Male : Calyx bell-shaped, 

 5-fid. Corolla spreading, its limb 5-parted. Stamens 3, in- 

 serted at the base of the corolla, one 1-celled ; anthers flexuous, 

 rarely straight, terminated by a papillose, lobed prolongation 

 of the connective. — Female : Calyx and corolla as in the male ; 



