CUCURBITACE^E 

 Nos. 4 and 5. Similar, but more reduced in size. 



601 



Momordica muricata, Willd. (fig. 384). 



Hypocotyl suberect, herbaceous, 5-8 cm. long, 2-8 mm. thick 

 slightly twisted, glabrous, colourless. 



Cotyledons sessile, 

 about 1*6 cm. long, 6-8 

 mm. wide, oblong, ob- 

 tuse and recurved at the 

 apex, entire, very ob- 

 scurely nerved, generally 

 concave, thick, fleshy, 

 glabrous, dark green 

 above, somewhat paler 

 below, rather persistent. 

 Stem somewhat twist- 

 ed, slightly pubescent; 

 1st internode 3*4 cm. 

 long, 2 mm. thick ; 2nd 

 and 3rd shorter and 

 thinner. 



Leaves. First pair 

 opposite, 6-9 cm. long, 

 including the petiole, 

 4-5 cm. wide, long- 

 petioled, rectangular, 

 cordate at the base, the 

 apex and the two adjacent lobes acuminate, sinuate-dentate, palm- 

 ately seven- to nine-nerved, and richly veined, nearly flat, not very 

 scabrous, bright green above, slightly paler beneath, not very per- 

 sistent. 



Second pair palmately five-lobed and -nerved. 

 No. 3. and all the rest alternate, and assuming the ultimate 

 shape of the leaf. 



Momordica involucrata, E. Meyer. 



Hypocotyl succulent, 3 cm. long, 2 mm. thick, terete, glabrous, 

 pale green. 



Cotyledons sessile, about 1'2 cm. long, 5 mm. wide, 1 mm 

 thick, spathulate, subconnate at base, rotund at apex, entire, ob- 

 scurely nerved, glabrous, pale green on both sides. 



Stem suberect at first, succulent, terete but compressed near 

 the base, quadrangular just under the first two leaves, with a few 



FIG. 884. Momordica muricata. 

 Half nat. size. 



