jMffa.] liXV. dubuRBiTACBJE. (0. B. Clarke.) fel5 



Extensively climbing hairy; tendrils 2-3-fid. Leaves i in. diam., reniform- 

 crbiculat, 5-angled or somewhait 5-16bed, dentate, usually scabrous, punctate on boih 

 surfaces, pubescent on the nerves beneath ; petiole 2 in. Male peSimcleS in., flowers 

 often approximate near the summit ; pedicels short, each carrying a small ovate 

 viscid entire bract sometimes obsolete. PeMs 5, f-l in., yellovr, often with^^^Yated 

 hai*y grden Veins. StcMehb 6. Female jtower sdlitsii'y, peduncle 1-3 it'. SVuit 

 5-12 in. Seeds | by n6arly j in., usually black, very iarrowly winged, smooth or 

 very sparingly tubercled. — ^The pedicels are rarely elongated (i. Satpatia, Wall.) ; 

 one example of Falconer's has the racemes compound. The fruit being the part 

 •eaten and attended to in cultivation is hence very variable : and no good character 

 founded on it can be drawn .between this species and L. acutangula. 



** StMiens 3. 



3. Ii. acutang'tila, Soxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 713; fruit elongate lO-aiigled 

 not eovered by spines or paffillse. DC. Prodr. iii. 302 ; Wall. Cat. 6769 ; 

 Hook. f. in Oliv. Fl. Trap. Afr. ii. 630, excl. gjfrt. ; Kurz in Joum. As. Soe. 

 t&n-j pt. ii. 101, exd. Tndny syn. Oucumis acUtangulus, Wall. Cat. 6786. 



Noeth-West India ; Soyle. Sikkii* ; J". D. H. Assam ; Masters. Plain of Bast 

 Bengal; G. B.Clarke. Ceylon; Thwaites. — Distkib. Malaya. 



Very near L. penlamdlra from which it differs by having 3 stamens as noted by Rox- 

 burgh and Terifled b^ Thwaiixs. The fruit is usually smaller, often only 3-4 in.— 

 The figure of L. f(xUda in Oav. Ic. i. t. 9, shows clearly 5 stamens and is not 

 EoxbSrgh's plant. Rheede Hart. Mai. viii. t. 7, is much more probably L. mgyptiaoa 

 than this species. L. Ofiutangula No. 1106 in Herb. Wight is pentandrous and is 

 i. agypiia^a exactly. AU these, and all descriptions founded on them, are not hfere 

 included in L. acutoMgula, Boxb. 



Vab. arka/ra, Koxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 715 (sp.) ; fruit oblong 10-angled without spines 

 or papillae. Wall. Cat. 6754 A; W. A. Prodr. 343 ; Palz. ^ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 102; 

 ^emd. in Ann. 8c. Nat. ser. 4, xii. 123. L. Hukenetiana, DC. Prodr. iii. 302. 

 Momdrdica tubiflora. Wall. Cat. 6749. — From nearly all India especially the Western 

 side. Naudin, who retains L. amara as a species, says it is " exceedingly near L. 

 amtangula but distinguished by the leaves a little smaller and sometimes whitish." 

 The fjfpical L. amara has the leaves softly pubescent at least while young, for they 

 become in age scabrous. 



4. Ii. ecbinata, Roxh. Hort. Beng. 104 ; Fl. Ind. iii. 716 ; £ruit ellip- 

 soid densely covered with bristles. Wall. Cat. 6756 ; W. ^ A. Prodr. 343 ; 

 BaU. Sf Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 102 ; Kurz in journ. As. Son. 1877, pt. ii. lOl. L. 

 Kndaal, Boxb. Hoi-t. Beng. 104 ; Fl. Ind. iii. 717. 



&TOEEAT ; Dalzell. Scinde ; Stocks. Pueneah (Bengal) ; S^itre. Dacca ; C. B. 

 Clarke. — ^Disteib. Tropical Africa. 



Climbing not extensively, sparingly scabrous-pilose; tendrils 2-fld. Leaves 1-2 in. 

 diain., cordate, reniform-orbicular, entire or obscurely 5-angular or 5-lobed, or cut 

 ahhost to the base into 6 narrow sinuate-pinnatifid segments, dentate ; petiole 

 1-2 in. Male peduncles nornmlly paired, one l-flowered the other racemed very 

 long 6 in. or more, pedicels 1 in. ; flowers small, white, without bracts. Filaments 3, 

 two with 2-eelled anthers. Pedtmcle of the solitary female very short. Fruit 1 J by 

 I in., ribs not visible; spines^ in., ciliate; stopple without spines, calyx-teeth per- 

 sistent. Seeds J in., many, slightly scabrous. 



Vab. longistylis, Edgw. in Journ. As. Soc. 1852, p. 270 (sp.) ; male raceme shorter 

 than the leaves, spines of the fruit fewer themselves glabrous. — Banda, Edgewortk. — 

 The leaves are not more dissected than in some Bengal typical L. echinata, nor are 

 the styles longer. The whole male raceme is much shorter than the accompanying 

 l-flowered male peduncle. 



