618 LXV. CUCURBITACE.E. (C. B. Clarke.) [Momordica. 



with a glabrous small bract to male flower : M. renigera, Wall, has a large woolly 

 bract : M. Heyneana, Wall, has the leaves deeply 3-lobate : M. Hamiltoniana, Wall. 

 has the bract foliaceous crumpled serrate. M. Balsamina, Wall, is the typical M. 

 dioica, Eoxb. Thwaites' M. dioica )8 denudata is altogether remote from M. dioica 

 (see No. 5). 



4. HC. cochinchinensis, Spreng. Syst. iii. 14; dioecious, petioles 

 glandular, bract near the top of the male peduncle, flowers large white, fruit 

 muricated, seeds large. Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 102. M. inixta, 

 Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 709 ; W. $ A. Prodr. 349 ; Miq. FL 2nd. Sat. i. pt. i. 664 ; 

 Sot. May. t. 5145 ; Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 4, xii. 132. M. dioica, Wall. 

 Cat. 6750 A, B, C, D, E, F. Muricia cochinchinensis, Lour. Fl. Cochinch. 733 ; 

 DC. Prodr. iii. 318. 



BENGAL to TENASSERIM, common. DECCAN PENINSULA ; Wight. CANAEA ; Law. 

 DISTRIB. Formosa, Philippines. 



Leaves 4-5 in. diam., cordate, ovate, usually 3-lobed, glabrous or a little pubes- 

 cent, often punctate beneath, little dentate ; petiole 2-3 in., almost invariably glan- 

 dular on its middle as well as apex. Male peduncle 2-6 in., bract often pubescent, 

 embracing the expanded flower; petals 1-2 in., white tinged with yellow, 3 with 

 black spots at the base 2 with yellow glands ; the two 2-anthered filaments not 2-fid. 

 Female peduncle 1-2 in., bract small about the middle. Fruit 4-5 in., ovate, 



n'nted, bright red, very fleshy, without ribs, covered with conical points nearly 

 n. high. Seeds f by f and i in. thick, many, horizontal, irregular, ovate, com- 

 pressed, black, corrugated on the margins, sculptured on the faces. 



* Male peduncles several-lowered. 



5. M. denudata, Thwaites Enum. 126 ; dioecious, leaves ovate-lanceo- 

 late, flowers small, many males on one raceme with inconspicuous bracts, fila- 

 ments 3, anthers conduplicate, fruit ovoid rostrate muricated with triangular 

 papillae. 



CEYLON ; alt. 3000-4000 ft. ; Gardner, Thwaites, Walker. 



Slender, climbing, nearly glabrous; tendrils simple. Leaves 2-4 by 1-2 in., deeply 

 cordate, often 3-5-angled or sparingly 3-5-lobed, central lobe always long acute ; 

 petiole 1 in. Male peduncle 2 in., often somewhat panicled nearly from the base and 

 10-20 mostly pedicelled flowered; bracts at the base of the pedicels minute; sepals 

 ovate, acuminate ; petals \-\ in. ; filaments inserted near the top of the calyx-tube, 

 anthers much exsert. Female peduncle 1 -flowered, about as long as the male, bract 

 .minute near the middle. Fruit f in. long and broad, suddenly rostrate. 



This species is evidently closely allied to the next which Sir J. Hooker removed 

 from Luffa (where Eoxburgh placed it) because of its simple tendrils. But the ex- 

 sert anthers, the shape of the flowers and their being pedicelled, all ally M. denudata 

 and M. Cymbalaria -vwth Luffa rather than Momordica. 



6. Bl. Cymbalaria, Fend in PI. Kotschy, No. 147 ; monoecious, leaves 

 reniform-orbicular, flowers small, males few on one raceme with inconspicuous 

 bracts, filaments 2, anthers horseshoe-shaped, fruit obovate-oblong acute 8- 

 ribbed smooth. Hook. f. in Oliv. FL Trop. Afr. ii. 540. Luffa tuberosa, Roxb. 

 Sort. Seng. 104 j Fl. Ind. iii. 717 ; W. $ A. Prodr. 344. L. amara, Wall. 

 Cat. 6754 B. 



DECCAN PENINSULA ; Wight. MYSORE ; Heync. Concan ; Stocks. DISTRIB. Tro- 

 pical Africa. 



Boot a large woody tuber as in many others of the genus. Leaves 1-2 in. broad, 

 5-angular or slightly 5-lobed, middle lobe not elongated, glabrous or slightly pubescent, 

 often punctulate on both surfaces, dentate ; petiole ^-1^ in. Male raceme 1-2 in., with 

 usually only 2-4 flowers ; calyx-lcbes lanceolate ; petals \ in., yellow ; filaments 2, 



