616 ixv. CUCTIEBITACB^. (0. B. Clarke.) [Imffa. 



5. Xi. Klelnllf W. 8r A. Prodr. 344 ; young fruit spinous, spines densely- 

 woolly. L. umbellata, Ro&m. Synopa. ii. 63. OucuiWta umbellata, Seyne in 

 Serb. Bottler; Wall. Cat. 6724; DC. Prodr. iii. 318. 



TEiVANcoEB ; Klein. Coeomandel (?) Wight. 



Agrees closely ■with L. echinata and may he a variety of it, hut the stameni 

 differ ; the filaments being three, of which two are bifid below the anthers. 



8. BENXNCASA, Savi. 



A large climber, softly hairy, tendrils 2-fid. Leaves cordate, reniform- 

 orMcular, more or less S-lobed ; petiole ■without glands. Flowers large, yeUo^w, 

 monoecious, all solitary, ■without bracts. Mat.T! : calyx-tube campanulate, 

 lobes 5, leaf-like, serrate; petals 5, nearly separate, obovate ; stamens 3, in- 

 serted near the mouth of the tube; anthers exsert, free, one 1-celled, two 

 2-celled, cells sigmoid. Femam) : calyx and corolla as in the male ; ovary 

 oblong, densely hairy ; style thick, ■with 3 flexuose stigmas ; ovules numerous, 

 horizontal ; pfiicentas 3. IVuit large, fleshyj oblong, pubescent, indehiscent. 

 Seeds many, oblong, compressed, margined. 



1. B. cerlfera, Savi; DC. Prodr. iii. 308 ; W. ^ A. Prodr. 344 ; Miq. 

 Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 665 ; Naud. in Ann. So. Nat. ser. 4, xii. 87 ; Kvrz in 

 Jowm. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 101; Oucurbita Pepo, Lour. Fl. Cochinc. 593 ;. 

 Bo.-cb. Fl. Ind. iii. 718. 0. hispida. Wall. Cat. 6728. 0. farinosa, Blwme 

 Bijd. 931. Gymnopetalum ? calyculatum, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Svppl. 832. — 

 BMeede Sort. Md. viii. t. 3. 



Throughout Ihbia cultivated. — Distbib. Cultivated in Malaya, China, Japan, 

 Tropical Africa ; where wild uncertain. 



Lemies 4-6 in. diam. ; petiole 3-4 in. Male pedmicle 3-4 in., female peduncle 

 1-2 in. Calyx-teeth when young often narrow, scarcely serrate. Fruit I-I4 ft., 

 cylindric, ■without ribs, hairy, ultimately covered with a waxy bloom. Seeds ^ by 

 Jin. 



9. IMCOnXORDIOA, Unn. 



Climbing, ■with simple tendrils. Leaves cordate, petioled, undivided in the 

 Indian species. Flowers yellow or white, monoecious or dioecious, females soli- 

 tary peduncled, males solitary or racemed, bracteate or not. Male : calyx-tube 

 short, campanulate (with 2-3 basal oblong incurved scales ex Hook, f.) lobes 6 ; 

 corolla 6-pajtite nearly to the base ; stamens 3 (2 in M. Cymhalaria) ; filaments 

 short; anthers at length free, one 1-celled, one or two 2-celled, cells con- 

 duplicate, or in M. Cymhalaria horse-shoe-shaped. Femaie : calyx and corolla 

 as in the male ; ovary oblong ; style long, stigmas 3 ; ovules very many, hori- 

 zontal placentas 3. Fruit oblong or spherical, rough or smooth, indehis- 

 cent or 3-valved, many- or few-seeded. Seeds obovate or complanate, smooth 

 corrugate or sculptured. — Distkib. Species 26, chiefly in the warmer parts of 

 Africa, several in Tropical Asia, few in Tropical America. — The genus is here 

 artificially separated from I/wffa by its simple tendrils. 



* Male pedvmclesY-jUmered. 



1. ni. Ctaarantia, lAnrt, ; DC. Prodr. iii. 311 ; monoecious, bract about 

 the middle of the male peduncle orbicular entire, fruit ovoid narrowed to both 

 ends many-ribbed covered with triangular tubercles. 



