618 Lxv. CTJCUEBiTACE^. (0. B. Clarke.) [-Momordica. 



with a glabrous small bract to male flower : M. renigera, Wall, has a large woolly 

 bract : M. Seynecma, Wall, has the leaves deeply 3-lobate : M. HamUtoniaTia, Wall. 

 has the bract foliaceous crumpled serrate. M. Balsamma, Wall, is the typical M. 

 dioica, Baxb. Thwaites' M. dioica /3 denndata is altogether remote &om M. dioica 

 {see No. 5). 



4. K. cochinclilnensis, Spreng. Syst. iii. 14; dioecious, petioles 

 glandular, tract near the top of the male peduncle, flowers large ■white, 6uit 

 muricated, seeds large. Kurz in Jburn. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 102. M. mixta, 

 Jtoxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 709 ; W. ^ A. Prodr. 349 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bed:, i. pt. i. 664 ; 

 Bat. Mag. t. 5145 ; Naud. in Ann. Se. Nat. ser. 4, xii. 132. M. dioica, WaU. 

 Cat. 6750 A, B, C, D, E, F. Muricia cocMnchinensis, Lour. Fl. Cochinch. 733 ; 

 BC. Prodr. iii. 318. 



Bengai, to Tenasserim, common. Dbccan Pehinsuia ; Wight. Canaea. ; Law. — 

 DisTEiB. Formosa, Philippines. 



Leaves 4-5 in. diam., cordate, ovate, usually 3-lobed, glabrous or a little pubes- 

 cent, often punctate beneath, little dentate ; petiole 2-3 in., almost invariably glan- 

 dular on its middle as well as apex. Male pedAtncle 2—6 in., bract often pubescent, 

 embracing the expanded flower ; petals 1-2 in., white tinged with yellow, 3 with 

 black spots at the base 2 with yellow glands ; the two 2-anthered filaments not 2-fid. 

 Female pedimcle 1-2 in., bract small about the middle. Fruit 4r-5 in., ovate, 

 pointed, bright red, very fleshy, without ribs, covered with conical points nearly 

 ^ in. high. Seeds f by f and j in. thick, many, horizontal, irregular, ovate, com- 

 pressed, black, corrugated on the margins, sculptured on the fabes. 



** Male peduncles geveral^wered. 



5. IMC. denudata, Thwaites Enum. 126 ; dioecious, leaves ovate-lanceo- 

 late, flowers small, many males on one raceme with inconspicuous bracts, fila- 

 ments 3, anthers conduplicate, fruit ovoid rostrate muricated with triangular 

 papillee. 



CfiTLON ; alt. 3000-4000 ft. ; Gardner, Thwaites, Walker. 



Slender, climbing, nearly glabrous ; tendrils simple. Leaves 2-4 by 1-2 in., deeply 

 cordate, oftan 3-5-angled or sparingly 3-5-lobed, central lobe always long acute ; 

 petiole 1 in. Male peduncle 2 in., often somewhat panicled nearly from the base and 

 10-20 mostly pedicelled flowered; bracts at the base of the pedicels minute; sepals 

 ovate, acuminate ; petals i-| in. ; filaments inserted near the top of the calyx-tube, 

 anthers much exsert. 'Beim^e peduncle 1 -flowered, about as long as the male, bract 

 minute near the middle. Fruit | in. long and broad, suddenly rostrate. 



This species is evidently closely allied to the next which Sir J. Hooker removed 

 from Luffa (whete Eoxburgh placed it) because of its simple tendrils. But the ex- 

 sert anthers, the shape of the flowers and their being pedicelledj all ally M. denudata 

 and M. Cymbaiaria with Luffa rather than Momordica. 



6. nx. Cymbaiaria, Feand in Fl. Kotschy, No. 147 ; monoecious, leaves 

 reniform-orbicular, flowers small, males few on one raceme with inconspicuous 

 bracts, filaments 2, anthers horseshoe-shaped, fruit obovate-oblong acute 8- 

 ribbed smooth. Hooh.f. in Oliv. Fl. Trap. Afr. ii. 540. Lufia tuberosa, Bx>xh. 

 Rort. Beng. 104 ; Fl. Ind. iii. 717 ; W. Sf A. Prodr. 344. L. amara. Wall. 

 Cat. 6754 B. 



Deccan Penotsttla ; Wight. Mtsoee ; Heyne. Conean ; Stocks. — Distsib. Tro- 

 pical A&ica. 



Root a large woody tuber as in many others of the genus. Leaves 1—2 in. broad, 

 5-angular or slightly 5-lobed, middle lobe not elongated, glabrous or slightly pubescent, 

 often punetulate on both surfaces, dentate ; petiole J-1 1 in. Male raceme 1-2 in., with 

 usually only 2-4 flowers ; calyx-lobes lanceolate ; petals J in., yellow ; filaments 2, 



