100 S. Kurz — Contributions towards a [No. 2, 



May possibly be an obtuse-lobed and smaller bracted form of G. quin- 

 qi(,elobum, Miq. Tl. Ind. Bat. I/l. 681. 



Lagenaria, Ser. 



*1. L. YULGARTS, Ser. in DC. Prod. III. 299 ; WA. Prod. I. 341 ; 

 Wight 111. t. 105/bis f . 7 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I/l. 669. (Gucurhita Lagena- 

 ria, L. sp. pi. 1434 ; Eoxb. Fl. Ind. III. 7l8 ; Ebeed. Hort. Malab. VIII. 

 t. 1. 4. 5 ; Rumph. Herb. Amb. V. 393. t. 144 ; L. idolatrica, Ser. in DC. 

 1. c. ; Miq. 1. c). 



Var. a. vuiiaARis, all parts softly, but not viscidly, pubescent ; fruits 

 flask -shaped. 



Yar. p. IDOLATEICA, {L. idolatrica, Ser. 1. c), all parts viscid-pubes- 

 cent ; fruits pear-shajDed. 



Hab. Generally cultivated all over Burma, but more copiously in 

 Ava and Prome.— Fl. March ; Fr. CS. 



Luffa, Cav. 

 Conspectus of Species. 



* Fruit smooth, at least not muricate or echinate. 



Fruit terete, or only with obscure darker coloured longitudinal streaks, . .X. cylindrica. 

 Fruit sharply 10-angular, L. acutangula. 



* * Fruit echinate or muricate. 



Flowers monoecious, yellow, the males and females from the same leaf-axil, very shortly 

 pedicelled ; fruit muricate, L. graveolens. 



Flowers dioecious, white, the males in racemes, the females solitary ; fruits densely 

 echinate, the bristles spreadingly fibrillose or rarely ciliate, L. ecliinata, 



1. L. CTLii!fDRiCA, Esem. Syn. Monog. Pep. II. 63 ; Naud. in Ann. 

 d. sc. nat. 4 ser. XII. 119 cum. syn. numer. (liomordica cylindrica, L. sp. 

 pi. 1433 ; L. JBetola, and L. Gattu-Picinna, Ser. in DC. Prod. III. 303 ; 

 L. Aegyptiaca, Mill. Diet. ; DC. 1. c. ; Bth. Fl. Austr. III. 316 ; L. pen- 

 tandra, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. III. 712 ; WA. Prod. I. 343 ; Wight Icon. t. 499 ; 

 L. clavata, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. III. 714 ?). 



Var. a. LEIOCAEPA, Naud. 1. c, flowers smaller ; stamens 5 ; fruits 

 elongate-oblong to clavate- cylindrical, 1 — 1^ ft. long ; seeds pale-coloured 

 or black. 



Var. p. HEDEEACEA, (L. liederacea, Wall. MS.), leaves usually small- 

 er, more scabrous ; stamens 3 ; fruits oblong to elliptical, 2 — 4 in. long, 

 rarely longer ; seeds black. 



Hab. Var. /8. common in all leaf- shedding forests, in the savannahs, 

 in hedges, rubbishy places, village-bushes, &c., all over Burma down to 

 Tenasserim and the Andamans ; var. /?. much scarcer. — Fl. Close of ES. ; 

 Fr. CS. 



The varieties of this species require further investigation. 



