614 Lxv. cucuEBiTACEie. (C. B. Clarke.) ILagenaria. 



CultiTated throughout India. — Disteib. Cultiyated in the tropics and warm 

 temperate zones of the whole world. 



Leaves often 6 in. diam., sofbly pubescent on both surfaces, more or less 5-angnlar 

 or 5-lobed. Male pedwncle often 6 in., female 1 in. Galyx-tvhe \ in., pubescent. 

 FetaZs 1-2 in. Fruit often IJ ft., in India usually bottle- or dumb-bell-shaped. 

 Seeds f by f and ^ in. thick, with an impressed groore parallel to and near the 

 margin. , 



7. XiVFFA, Cm. 



Climbers, large or small, pubescent or nearly g-lalxrouS ; tendrils 2-&-fids 

 Leaves cordate, usually 5-angular or S-lobed ; petiole without glands at its 

 apex. Flowers yellow or white, monoecious, males and females often from the 

 same axil ; females solitary or panicled, males on long or short racemes or 

 clustered. Mate : calyx-tube top-shaped, lobes 5, triangular or lanceolate ; 

 petals 5, obovate ; stamens 3, rarely 5, filaments 3 free or connate ; anthers ex- 

 serted free, one 1-celled, the others 2-celled, cells sigmoid often on the margin of 

 the broad connective. , Eemaie : calyx-tube shortly produced above the ovary ; 

 lobes and corolla as in the male ; ovary oblong, style cylindric, stigma 3-lobed ; 

 ovules very many, horizontal. Fruit large or small, oblong (not spherical), 

 smooth or angular or spinous, ultimately fibrous, not succulent, 3-celled, usually 

 circumsciss near the top. Seeds many, oblong, compressed. — Distkib. Species 

 10, in the warmer regions of the Old World several widely cultivated, one 

 indigenous in America. 



* Stamens 5. 



1. Ii. graveolens, Roxh. Fl. Ind. iii. 716 ; male pedicels clustered in 

 the axils without bracts, females often in the same axils 1-3 on the peduncle 

 each 1-bracteate, fruit with numerous soft bristles. Wall. Cat. 6762 ; Naud. 

 in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 4, xii. 124 ; Kurz in Jawm. As. Soo. 1877, pt. ii. 101. 



SmKiM, alt. 1000-2000 ft. ; J. D. H. Eajmahai, Hills ; Eoxbwrgh. Plain of 

 East Bengal ; C. B. Clarke. Uhittagong ; Kurz. — Distrib. North Australia. 



Stems long, little villous ; tendrils 3-5-fid. Leaves 3 in. diam., reniform-orbicular, 

 6-angled, denticulate, punctulate, scabrous above, pubescent on the nerves beneath ; 

 petiole 2-3 in. Male pedicels few, much shorter than the petiole ; petals 5, \ in., 

 yellow, entire; stamens 5. Female peduncle short, sometimes divided with 2-3 

 flowers, each pedicel carrying a small ovate entire thick bract ^ in. Fruit 2 by 1 in., 

 covered with papiUse, scarcely spinous, obscurely 10-striate, dehiscing horizontally 

 near the top, stopple without papillae. Seeds scarcely ^ in., very many, packed in 

 fibres, smooth, not margined. 



2. Ii. aeg-yptiaca, Mill, ex Sook. f. in Oliv. Fl. Trap. Afr. ii. 530 ; male 

 flowers racemed on long peduncles, fruit elongate clavate smooth lO-ribbed or 

 somewhat lO-angular. jDC. Prodr. iii. 303. L. pentandra, Soxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 

 712 ; W. §• A. Prodr. 343 ; Wall. Cat. 6751 ; Wight. le. t. 499. L. racemosa, 

 Roxh. I.e. 715. L. clavata, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 104, Fl. Ind. iii. 714. L. 

 acutangula, W. 8f A. I. c, not of Roxb. L. cylindrica, Roem. Syrvops. ii. 63 ; 

 Navd. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 4, xii. p. 119 ; Kurz in Journ. As. Soe. 1877, pt. ii. 

 100. L. Petola and Oattu-picinna, Seringe in DC. I. c. L. Parvala, Wall. 

 Cat. 6758. L. Gosa, hederacea and Satpatia, Wall. Cat. 6753, 6755, 6757. 

 Bryonia cheirophylla, Wall. Cat. 6715 A. Momordica Lufia, Iiirni. — Rheede 

 Hort. Mai. viii. t. 8, with many other synonyms for which see Naudin I. e. 



Thoughout India very common, often cultivated. — Distbib. Cultivated throughout 

 the tropics, native country uncertain (Naudin). 



