524 BENGAL PLANTS. [Cucurdita, 
370. Cucurbita Linn. 
Large, climbing, hispid or hairy herbs; leaves petioled, cordate, 
ovate, angled or lobed; tendrils 2~4-fid. Flowers moncecious, all 
solitary, yellow, very large. Sepals 5, connate in a campanulate 
calyx-tube ; lobes of limb linear-or leafy. Petals 5, connate ina 
campanulate euags lobes short, triangular. ¢ Stamens 3, in- 
Seeds ovoid or oblong, compressed, margined or not. 
Leaf-stalks beset beneath with rigid, pungent hairs ; calyx-lobes narrow” 
subulate; leaves deeply 5-lobed, with broad sinuses between the epee 
Leaf-stalks with hairs equal both beneath and above, not rigid nor ae 
pungent :-— 
i OE narrow-subulate ; leaves not deeply lobed, mere pi 
thelighesaiiridwaue . fossils sa.cnqlals.ogel eee NEES 
ely ieee nic -spathulate, leafy; leaves very variously lobed 
Des 
881. pines Pero DC.; F. I. iii. 718; F. B. I. ii. 622; E. ok 
C. 2331. 
Cultivated in our area. 
An annual creeper or climber. Beng. Kumra, saled 
The Pumpkin. 
kaddu. 2. B D.. 
882. CucurBrta maxrmma Duchesne; F. B. I. ii. 62: S 
Cc. 2316. 
Cultivated in our area. 
n annual creeper or climber. 
The Gourd. 2 
883. Cucursrta woscHata Duchesne; F. B. I. ii. 622: 
C, 2325. C. Melopepo F. I. ii. 719. 
Cultivated in our area. 
An annual ne or climber. 
The Musk. Melo 
371. Thladiantha Bunge. 
Herbaceous climbers; leaves petioled, donee 
3-lobed, denticulate; tendrils simple, rare 2-fi 
Soe reseas ieee Protea a aR Me TSA ca 
moschatd. — 
Vernac. Mitha-kaddt 
Pca Pa aoe SSS Sasi sik! pra aial S geae os 
Beng. Safra uur : 
