632 LXV. CUCURBIT1CEJE. (C. B. Clarke.) [Edgaria* 



1. E. darjeeling-ensis, C. B. Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. xv. 114 > 

 Gymnopetalum sp. 5, Herb. 2nd. Or., H.f. $ T. 



GTTRWHAL ; Falconer. SIKKIM, alt., 5000-8000 ft., very common ; J. D. H. ; C. B. 

 Clarke. 



Leaves 4 by 3 in., serrate and denticulate ; petiole 3 in. Male raceme 6 in., 

 female 3-4 in. Calyx-tube f in. Petals f in., widely patent. Fruit 3 by Ijf-in., some- 

 what pilose, with 2 wary vertical ribs on each face. Seed by ^ and ^ in. thick. 



25. OOIVIPIIOGYNE, Griff. 



Climbing', weak, succulent herbs, tendrils 2-fid or simple. Leaves petioled, 

 pedate, with 5-7 lanceolate serrate leaflets. Flowers small, monoecious (some- 

 times at least), males racemed ; females panicled or clustered. MALE : calyx 

 rotate, 5-partite, with oblong segments ; corolla 5-partite, with elongate erose 

 segments ; stamens 5, filaments united at the base ; anthers globose, 1-celled, 

 straight. FEMALE : calyx produced above the ovary and corolla as in the 

 male ; corolla-segments caudate ; ovary top-shaped, 1-celled ; styles 3, 2-fid 

 at the apex ; ovules 3, pendulous. Capsule top-shaped, 3-valved at the wide 

 truncate summit, crowned by the persistent styles. Seeds 3 (21), ellipsoid, 

 little compressed, black, obscurely margined. DISTEIB. Species 2, one in the 

 Himalaya one in Burma. 



1. Cr. cissiformis, Griff. PL Cantor, p. 26; capsule somewhat succu- 

 lent in. wide at the summit, seeds in. oblong with scaly tubercles on the 

 rounded faces. 



GURWHAL, alt. 7500 ft. ; Madden. KTJMAON ; alt. 7000 ft. ; Edgeworth, Strachey 

 $ Winterbottom. SIKKIM, alt. 5000-7000 ft. ;. Lachoong, J. D. H. ; Doobdi, C. B. 

 Clarice. 



Leaves 2^ in. diam., glabrous or slightly pubescent; petiole 1-1| in. Male 

 racemes 1-6 in., often compound (or appearing so), towards the end of leafless branch- 

 lets. Females clustered near the axils or on panicles 2-4 in. Capsule in. 



2. Cr. heterosperma, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1878, pt. ii. 105 ; cap- 

 sule dry 9-ribbed f in. wide at the summit, seed in. ovoid rugose-lacunose. 

 Zanonia ? heterosperma, Wall. Cat. 3728. 



BTJEMA ; at Taong-dong ; Wallich. 



The leaves and inflorescence closely resemble Cr. cissiformis. The capsule is in. r 

 but narrow linear-oblong. 



26. ACTINOSTEIVXIVIA, Griff. 



A climbing weak herb ; tendrils simple and 2-fid. Leaves petioled, deeply 

 cordate or hastate, elongate, much toothed, nearly glabrous. Flowers small, 

 moncecious, in lax axillary panicles, pedicels jointed about their middle; panicles 

 frequently male with a few females near the base. MALE : calyx rotate, 5- 

 partite, with lanceolate-linear segments ; corolla 5-partite, segments lanceolate- 

 caudate ; stamens 5, free ; connective dilated-papillose on one side with a narrow 

 straight oblong anfner-cell on the other. FEMALE : calyx and corolla as in the 

 male ; ovary subglobose, verrucose, 1-celled ; style short, with 2 reniform 

 stigmas ; ovules 2-4, pendulous, subparietal. Capsule ovoid-conical, half- 

 superior, covered with rough points,. circiunsciss above the middle. Seeds 2-4, 

 compressed, ovate, corrugated and denticulate on the margin. 



