Momordica.] lxv. cucuebitacej!. (0. B. Clarke.) 617 



Wall. Cat 6746 ; W. Sr A.ProA: 348 ; Bot. Mag. t. 2455 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 

 i. pt. i. 663 ; Wight Ic. t. 504 ^ Dah. Sp Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 102 ; Naud. in Arm. Sc. 

 Nat. ser. 4, xii. 131 ; Kwz in Jowrn. As. Soa. 1877, pt. ii. 102. M. humilis, 

 Wall. Cat. 6747. M. muricata, DC. I.e.; Boxb. I.e.; Wall. Cat. 6746 ; My. 

 /. c. M. senegalensis, Lamk. ; DC. I. c. Oucumis africanus, Bot, Beg. t. 980.^- 

 Bheede Sort. Mai. viii. t. 9, 10. 



Throughout India, cultivated.— Disteib. Malaya, China, Tropical Africa. 



■Leaves 1-3 in. diam., orbicular, glabrous or slightly pubescent, cut nearly to the 

 base into 6-7 narrow sinuate or subpinnatifid lobes. Male pedmole 2-4 in., slender, 

 bract. Calyx-lobes oyate, acute. PeteZs |-j in., yellow. :Bemale pedimcle i-i m., 

 slender, bracteate near the base ; ovary fusiform, muricate. Fruit 1-3 in., rostrate. 

 Seeds | in., compressed, corrugate on the margin, somewhat sculptured. 



2. M. Balsamlna, Linn.; DC. JPt-odr. iii. 311; monoecious, bract very- 

 near the top of the male peduncle orbicvilar denticulate variegated, fruit ovoid 

 narrowed to both ends smooth. Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 664 ; Boiss. Fl. 

 Orient, ii. 757, exel. syn. Wight ; Sook. f. in Oliv. Fl. Trap. Afr. ii. 637, noL 

 of Wallieh, nor of W. ^ A. Frod/r. 349. 



PcNJAB ; T. Thomson, Edgeworth. Noeth-West India ; Boyle. Scinde ; Stocks, 

 —Disteib. Malaya, Australia, Western Asia, Africa to the Cape. 



Glabrous or nearly so. Leaves 1^-3 in. diam., orbicular, pabnately 3-5-lobed to 

 about the middle, lobes acutely lobulate, punctulate on both surfaces ; petiole 

 1-1^ in. Male peduncle 1-3 in. ; calyx-lobes ovate or oblong, acute ; petals i-4 in., 

 yellowish, black at the base. Female peduncle shojt, less than J in., ebracteate. Frwit 

 1-3 in., rostrate, red, usually quite smooth, in the example of Edgeworth's obscurely 

 ribbed and slightly muricate. Seeds § in., compressed, nearly smooth. 



3. BK, dlolca, Boxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 709 ; dioecious, petiole vdthout glands, 

 bract near the top of the male peduncle, flowers large yellow, fruit densely 

 covered with soft spines. DC. Frodr. iii. 312 ; W. ^ A. Prodr. 348 ; Wight 

 Ic. tt. 505, 606 ; Dene, in Jacq. Voy. Bot, t. 71 ; Dah. ^ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. l02 ; 

 Naud. in Ann. Se. Nat. ser. 4, xii. 133 ; Thwaites Enum. 126, as to var. a. ; 

 Kurz in Jowrn. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 102. M. Balsamina, Wall. Cat. 6741 j 

 W. 4- A. Prodr. 349, not of others. M. WaUichii, Boem. Synops. ii. 68 ; Miq. 

 Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 664. M. renigera, Hamiltoniana, and Heyneana, WM. 

 Cat. 6743, 6744, 6748. M. Missionis, Wall. Cat. 6739 ; Dennst. in Miq. I. c. 

 M. subangulata, Blume ex Kurz in Joum. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 102. Tricho- 

 santhes Eusseliana, Wall. Cat. 6696. Bryonia grandis, Wall. Cat. 6700 L. 



Throughout India, from the Himaxata to Ceylon and Singapoke, ascending t& 

 5000 ft. alt. on the hills. — Disteib. Malaya. 



Leaves 2-4 in. long and broad, cordate, ovate, acute, entire, denticulate or more or 

 less 3-6-lobed, glabrous, often punctate beneath; petiole 1-2 in. Male peduncle 

 2-6 in. ; bract large, cowl-like, embracing the expanded flower, glabrous, thin or 

 (in M. Missionis) thick soft pubescent ; calyx-lobes oblong with a narrow termination ; 

 petals 1 in., full-yellow, the two 2-anthered iilaments 2-fid half way down. Female 

 peduncles as long as the male, bract small usually near the base. Fruit 1-3 in., 

 ellipsoid, acute, without ribs. Seeds nearly ^ in., many, compressed, broad-oblong, 

 with a few well-marked corrugations on the margins, nearly smooth on the surface. — 

 The large succulent Lower Bengal form cannot, well be confounded with any other ; 

 but both from the Deecan Peninsula and Punjab there is a much slenderer form, tha 

 males of which have been referred to M. Balsamina (the intense spinousness of thet 

 young ovary prevents the female plants being mistaken): they usually have the- 

 leaves much less dissected, and M. Balsamina almost invariably exhibits both mal& 

 and female flowers on the same branch. M. Missionis, Wall., is the slender form 



