Lxv. cucuRBiTACEJ!. (C. B. Clarke.) 605 



Male flowers (partly) in racemes. Fruit opening by 



a stopple 7. LuFFi. 



Flowers all solitary. Fruit very fleshy, indehisoent . 8. Benincasa. 



jS. Stamens inserted below the mouth of the tatyx-iube ; anthers 

 more m- less cohering. 



Male flowers (partly) raoemed. Tendrils simple . . 9. Momobdica. 

 Male flowers clustered or solitary. Tendrils simple . 10. CucuMia. 

 Flowers aU solitary. Tendrils 2-3-fid 11. CiTBOi.i.Trs. 



*• Corolla campaemlate, divided halfway down or thereabout. 



Tendrils simple. Flowers white 12. Cephalandea. 



Tendrils divided. Flowers yellow 13. CrcuRBiTA. 



B. Arither-cells straight {orin Bryonia somewhat curved). 



* Flowers not large, yellow, male racemes or pedicels not stovt. 

 t Male and female 'pedicels 1-flowered, clustered. 



Tendrils 2-fid 14. Bktonia. 



Tendrils simple 15. MmEiA. 



tt Male flowers corymbose or mbumbellate or racemed. 



Fruit shortly pedunoled. Connective not produced . 16. Zehneeia. 

 Fruit on a capillary peduncle. Connective produced . 17. Meixjthbia. 



Fruit sessile, beaked 18. Ehtnohocaepa. 



Fruit circumsciss near the base 19. Cobaii.ocabpds. 



Fruit subsessile, indehiscent, without a beak . . .20. Cebasiocabptim. 

 Ciliate bracts resembling stipules at base of the 

 petioles 21. Ctekolepis. 



** Flowers large deep yellow, mde raceme stowt. 



Calyx-tube short. Seeds very many 23. Thladiantha. 



Calyx-tube elongate. Seeds 3-9 24..Edgabia. 



Tkibe II. Orthospermeee. Ovules and seeds erect. 



1 3, each with two empty cells ...... 22. Dic^lospebmum. 



Tkibb in. Zanonleae. Ovules pendulous. Flowers BmaU, the femafes 

 in panicles or many-iflowered racemes. Stamens 5, ftee, each vrith a single 

 small-straight anther. 



A. Leaves not divided into separate leaflets. 



Fruit small circumsciss. Leaves serrate . . . .26. Actinostemma. 

 Fruit long clavate. Leaves subentire 28. Zanokia. 



B. Leaves pedately divided into 3^5 leaflets. 



Fruit trigonous obovoid. Leaflets serrate. Tendrils 



bifid 25. GOMPHOOTWB. 



Fruit pea-like. Leaflets serrate. Tendrils simple . 27. Gtnostemma. 

 Fruit' elongate clavate. Leaflets entire ,29. Amomitba. 



