622 LXV. CUCURBITACE^. (C. B. Clarke.) [Cucurbita. 



campanulate, 5-lobed hardly half-way down; stamens 3, inserted low in the calyx- 

 tube, anthers connate, one 1 -celled, two 2-celled, cells conduplicate. FEMALE : 

 calyx and corolla as in the male ; ovary oblong, style short, stiginas 3, bifid ; 

 ovules very many, horizontal; placentas 3. Fruit fleshy, indehiscent, often 

 large. Seeds ovoid or oblong, compressed, margined or not. DISTKIB. Species 

 5, whereof 4 are cultivated, 1 is said to be wild in Africa. 



1. C. maxima, Duchesne in Lamk. Diet. ii. 151 ; leaves with 5 shallow 

 lobes or subentire sinus between the lobes narrow, hairs of the petiole equal 

 not pungent, calyx-segments lanceolate-linear, fruiting peduncle stout corky 

 striated not grooved. DC. Prodr. iii. 316 ; Wall. Cat. 6720 ; Naud. in Ann. 

 Sc. Nat. ser. 4, vi. 17. 



Throughout INDIA, cultivated. DISTBIB. Cultivated in all warm and temperate 

 parts of the globe. 



Annual. Leaves 4-6 in. diam., hispidulous and also with much soft hair, denti- 

 culate ; petiole often nearly as long as the blade. Male peduncle 4 in., female 1^ in. 

 Corolla 3-4 in. The Common Gourd. 



2. C. moschata, Duchesne ; DC. Prodr. iii. 317 ; hairs of the petiole 

 equal not pungent, calyx-segments spathulate or foliaceous. Naud. in Ann. 

 Sc. Nat. ser. 4, vi. 47; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 104. 0. maxima, 

 W. $ A. Prodr. 351 ; Wight III. t, 105 ; Wight Ic. t. 507. 0. Melopepo, Roxb. 

 Fl Ind. iii. 719 ; Wall. Cat. 6725. C. Camolenga, Wall Cat. 6718,Itheede 

 Hort. Mai. viii. t. 2. 



Throughout INDIA, cultivated. DISTRIB. Widely cultivated 'in tropical and sub- 

 tropical regions. The Musk-Melon. 



3. C. Pepo, DC. Prodr. iii. 317; leaves 5-lobed sinus between the lobes 

 broad, hairs on the petiole beneath rigid almost prickly, fruiting peduncle woody 

 strongly grooved. Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 718 ; W. # A. Prodr. 351 ; Naud. in 

 Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 4, vi. 29 ; Wall. Cat. 6722. 



Throughout INDIA, cultivated. DISTRIB. Cultivated in all warm and temperate 

 parts of the globe. . 



Annual. Leaves 4-6 in. diam., with much soft hair, hispidulous on the nerves 

 beneath, denticulate, lobes acute often slightly lobed ; petiole often nearly as long as 

 the blade. Male peduncle 4 in. or more, female \\ in. Corolla 3-4 in. The Pumpkin. 



14. BRYONXA, Linn. 



Climbing herbs, scabrid or glabrous ; tendrils 2-fid in the Indian species. 

 Leaves petioled, palmately 5-lobed or 3-5-angular. Flowers small, yellowish, 

 males and females clustered in the same axils (in the Indian species shortly pedi- 

 celled). MALE: calyx-tube widely campaniilate, 5-toothed; corolla 5-partite; 

 stamens 3, inserted low down the calyx-tube, anthers free, two 2-celled one 

 1-celled; cells curved or somewhat sigmoid, never quite conduplicate, connec- 

 tive not produced ; rudiment of ovary 0. FEMALE : calyx and corolla as in the 

 male ; ovary ovoid ; style slender, 3-fid at the top, no disc at the base in the 

 Indian species ; ovules many, horizontal, placentas 3. Berry spherical, indehis- 

 cent. Seeds not very many, oblong or ovoid, compressed. DISTKIB. Species 

 12, in the warm and temperate regions of the old world. 



1. B. laciniosa, Linn.', DC. Prodr. iii. 308; scabrous or nearly glabrous, 

 leaves generally deeply palmately 5-lobed sinus sometimes shallow, fruit nearly 



