CUCURBITACEA. 515 
_ pressed, horizontal, or pendulous ; testa often with corrugate or 
spinose margins ; albumen 0; embryo with leafy cotyledons. 
*Anthers 2-celled ; ovules horizontal or very rarely pendulous; female 
flowers menally solitary, never panicled ; leaves never divided into dis- 
tinct leaflets :—[p. 5 
tAnther- fails folded together or sigmoidly curved :—[p. 516] 
Corolla rotate, Be if campanulate, divided almost or quite to the 
base into 5 free petals :— 
Petals ae at their margin 
vules 12, perfect seeds weige 6, each with an abortive seed 
attached to its side ; tube of calyx 3 in. long or longer 
Hodgsonia. 
Ovules almost pendulous and seeds very numerous ; spe of 
calyx less than 3 in. long 
Calyx-tube of male tomar elongated ; stamens inserted within 
and included in the calyx-tube; anthers cohering in an oblong 
head :— 
Tendrils simple ; stigmatic lobes of the iene flower hes 
Tendrils divided ; stigmatic lobes of the “female flower 
2-lobed ; petiole with 2 glands at its apex .....-Lagenaria. 
Calyx-tube of male flowers short :— 
uit dry; endocarp fibrous, opening by a stopple ; male 
ane partly i IT PRCCTTIOR cod dod covickcsvkci dass qeree ee Luffa. 
Fruit soft ; endocarp fleshy, indehiscent ; male and female 
flowers alike solitary .--Benincasa. - 
tamens inserted balow the mouth of the ships filaments 
ae: exserted, not recurved; anthers more or less ¢o- 
heren 
en a eee a 
Culp with 23 scales at its base; male flowers with 
usually a large enveloping bract; tendrile simple 
Mom 
Calyx without — at its base; male flowers with no 
enveloping brace ae a 
Connecti adi ed beyond anther-cells ; ten simp 
gies 3 Cucumis. 
Connective not produced ; tendrils 2-3- fid sii Citrullus. 
Corolla campanulate, not divided much more than half-way down :— 
