614 LXV. CUCURBITACE^;. (C. B. Clarke.) [Lagenaria. 



Cultivated throughout INDIA. DISTKIB. Cultivated iftjj^^B^pics and warm 

 temperate zones of the whole world. 



Leaves often 6 in. diam., softly pubescent on both ^pfc - '>1^^|s5 -angular 

 or 5-lobed. Male peduncle often 6 in., female 1 in. ' 

 Petals 1-2 in. Fruit often 1 ft., in India usu. . 

 Seeds f by f and |- in. thick, with an imprejpd groove parali' 

 margin. 



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Climbers, large or small, pubescent or nearly glabrous; tendrils 2-5-iid. 

 Leaves cordate, usually 5-angular or 5-lo ; be<i ; petiole without glands at its 

 apex. Flowers yellow or white, monoeciousj'pnales and females often from the 

 same axil ; females solitary or panicled, males on long or short racemes or 

 clustered. MALE : calyx-tube top-shaped, lobes 5, triangular or lanceolate ; 

 petals 5, obovate ; stamens} 3, rarely 5, filaments 3 free or connate ; anthers ex- 

 serted free, one 1-celled, the others^ 2-celled, cells sigmoid often on the margin of 

 the broad connective. FEMALE : calyx-tube shortly produced above the ovary ; 

 lobes and corolla as in the male ; ovary oblong, style cylindric, stigma 3-lobed ; 

 ovules very many ^ horizontal. Fruit large or small, oblong (not spherical), 

 smooth or angular or spinous, ultimately fibrous, not succulent, 3-celled, usually 

 circumsciss near the top. Seeds many, oblong, compressed. DISTRTB. Species 

 10, in the warmer regions of the Old World several widely cultivated, one 

 indigenous in America. 



* Stamens 5. 



1. Xi. graveolens, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 716 ; male pedicels clustered in 

 the axils without bracts, females often in the same axils 1-3 on the peduncle 

 each 1-bracteate, fruit with numerous soft bristles. Watt. Cat. 6752 ; Naud. 

 in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 4, xii. 124 ; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 101. 



SIKKIM, alt. 1000-2000 ft. ; J. D. H. RAJMAHAL HILLS; Roxburgh. Plain of 

 EAST BENGAL ; C. E. Clarke. CHITTAGONG ; Kurz. DISTBIB. North Australia. 



Stems long, little villous ; tendrils 3-5-fid. Leaves 3 in. diam., reniform-orbicular, 

 5-angled, denticulate, punctulate, scabrous above, pubescent on the nerves beneath ; 

 petiole 2-3 in. Maje pedicels few, much shorter than the petiole ; petals 5, \ in., 

 yellow, entire ; stamens 5. Female peduncle short, sometimes divided with 2-3 

 flowers, each pedicel carrying a small ovate entire thick bract ^ in. Fruit 2 by 1 in., 

 covered with papillae, scarcely spinous, obscurely 10-striate, dehiscing horizontally 

 near the top, stopple without papillae. Seeds scarcely .in., very many, packed in 

 fibres, smooth, not margined. 



2. L. aeg-yptiaca, Mitt, ex Hook.f. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. A/r. ii. 530 ; male 

 flowers racemed on long peduncles, ifruit elongate clavate smooth 10-ribbed or 

 somewhat. 10-angular. DC. Prodr. iii. 303. L. pentandra, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 

 712 ; W. $ A. Prodr. 343 ; Watt. Cat. 6751 ; Wight. Ic. t. 499. L. racemosa, 

 Roxb. L c. 715. L. 6lavata, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 104, Fl. Ind. iii. 714. L. 

 acutangula. W. 8f A. 1. c., not of Roxb. L. cylindrica, Roern. Synops. ii. 63 ; 

 Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 4, xii. p. 119 , Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 

 100. L. Petola and Cattu-picinna, Seringe in DC. I.e. L. Parvala, Wall. 

 Cat. 6758. L. Gosa, hederacea and Satpatia, Wall. Cat. 6753, 6755, 6757. 

 Bryonia cheirophylla, Wall. Cat. 6715 A. Momordica LufFa, Linn. Rheede 

 Hort. Mai. viii. t. 8, with many other synonyms for which see Naudin I. c. 



Thoughout INDIA very common, often cultivated. DISRIB. Cultivated throughout 

 the tropics, native country uncertain (Naudin). 



