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2-2 */, cent. longus; aculei subulati, ad basim dilatati, 4-7 mill. longi; 
operculum conicum, inerme. Semina nigra, 4 */, mill. longa, 3 */, mill. 
lata, 2 mill. crassa. . 
In India orientali (Roxburgh in herb. Brux.); in Gujerat (Dalzell 
n. 42 in herb. Kew.); in Scinde (Stocks in herb. Kew.); in Bengalia 
ad Purneah (Kurz in herb. Kew.); in Dacca (Clarke in herb. Kew.) ; 
in Burma ad Arracan (Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1877, p. 101); 
in Abyssinia (d'Arnauld in herb. Mus. Par.); in Cordofan (Kotsehy 
n. 122 in herb. Mus. Par., DC., Boiss., Deless., Van H., Webb.; Fi- 
gari in herb. Flor.); in Africa centrali (Grant in herb. Kew.); in Ber- 
ber et Chartum (Schweinfurth n. 555, 925, 956 in herb. Kew.). 
6, longistyla Clarke! in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 2, p. 615. — Racemi 
masculi folio breviores; aculei paulo densi, glabri. — Luffa lon- 
gistyla Edgew.! in Journ. Asiat. Soc. 1852, p. 270; Walp. Ann. 4, 
p. 863. 
In India orientali ad Bandah (Edgeworth in herb. Kew.). 
6. L. umbellata (Rom. Syn. fasc. 2. p. 63); foliis parvis, ovato- 
cordatis, leviter 3-5-lobatis, utrinque scabris ; cirrhis bifidis; floribus 
parvis, albis; staminum filamentis profunde bifidis; fructu parvo, 
ecostato, longe denseque aculeato, aculeis mollibus, dense lanatis. — 
Miq. FL. Ind. Bat., 1, part. 1, p. 666. — Cucurbita umbellata Klein! 
in Willd. Spec. 4, p. 608; Ser. in DC. Prodr. 3, p. 318. — Luffa 
Kleinii W. et Arn.! Prodr. 1, p. 344; Rom. 1. c. p. 63; Clarke in 
Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 2, p. 616. — Cucurbita campanulata Dietr. 
Syn. pl. 5, p. 360. 
Caulis satis gracilis, elongatus, ramosus, sulcatus, glaber. Petiolus 
gracilis, sulcatus, glaber vel puberulus, 6-12 cent. longus. Folia supra 
liete viridia, subtus pallidiora, apice acuta, margine subulato-den- 
(ata, 5-8 cent. longa lataque; sinus basilaris subrotundatus, 1-2 cent. 
profundus ; nervi subtus leviter prominentes. Cirrhi robusti, elongati, 
profunde sulcati, puberuli. Pedunculus communis masculus gracilis, 
angulatus, glaber, 15-25 cent. longus, 4-10-florus ; pedicelli filiformes, 
Puberuli, ?/,-2 cent. longi, ebracteati vel minute bracteolati. Calyx 
Puberulus, tubo subrotato, 4 mill. lato, segmentis triangulari-lanceo- 
latis, 4-5 mill. longis. Petala patula, ovato-oblonga, 5-nervia, fundo 
villosa, 10-13 mill. longa. Stamina 3, 1 uniantheriferum cetera bian- 
'herifera, antheris unilocularibus. Pedunculus femineus */,-1 cent. 
longus. Fructus maturus ignotus. 
In India orientali, reg. Travancore ad Mirittupadu (Klein n. 769 in 
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