] Lxv. cucuEBiTACBiE. (0. B. Clarke.) 621 



2. C. vulg'arls, Schrad. in Lmneea 1848, 412; leaves deeply divided or 

 but moderately lobed glabrous or somewhat hairy hardly scabrid, fruit often 

 10 in. diam. sometimes much smaller. Nimd. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 4, xi. 100 ; 

 Dalz. ^ Oibs. Bomb. Fl. 102 ; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 103. C. 

 flstulosus, Stoekt in Hook. Kew Journ. Bot. iii. t. 3. Oucumis Citmllus, DC. 

 Prodr. iii. 301. Oucurbita Oitrullus, Linn. ; Roxh. Fl. Ind. iii. 319 ; Wall. Gat. 

 6717; W. 8f A. Prodr. ?iS\.. 



Throughout India, cultivated. — Distbib. In all warm countries of the world, cul- 

 tivated. 



Said to be annual while C. Colocynthis is perennial ; but the distinction between 

 the cultivated form of C. Colotn/nthis and the divided-leaved forms of the water-melon 

 is very small. The water-melon has either sweet or bitter fruit : when the latter, 

 it is OttntUus amartts of authors. — C. fistwlosus, Stocks, has thick stems, leaves 

 sparingly lobed, and is plentifully supplied with long somewhat hispid hairs. — ^The 

 Water-Melon. 



12. CEFHAXiANDXlA, Schroder. 



Climbing herbs, scarcely hairy ; tendrils simple. Leaves petioled, 5-angular or 

 6-lobed, toothed. Flowers dioecious, moderately large, all solitary and white in 

 the Indian species, ebracteate. Maie : calyx-tube campanulate, short, limb 5- 

 lobed ; corolla campanulate, 5-lobed about half-way down ; stamens 3 ; anthers 

 exsert, connate, one 1-celled, two 2-celled, cells conduplicate. Pemaie : calyx 

 and corolla as in the male; ovary oblong, style long with 3 bifid stigmas; ovules 

 many, horizontal ; ' placentas 3, vertical. Fruit fleshy, indehiscent, cylindric, 

 smooth. Seeds many, ovoid, compressed, margined. — Distkib. Species 12; 

 aU AMcan, one extending to India and Malaya. 



1. C. Indlca, Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 6, v. 16; leaves 6-angular 

 occasionally 5-lobed, fruit 1-2 by ^-1 in. Kv^z in. Journ. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 

 108. Momordica monadelpha, Eoxb. Fl. Lid. iii. 708. Bryonia grandis, Linn, 

 f. Sv^l. 126 ; Wall. Cat. 6700, except D, I, K, L. B. pahnata. Wall. Cat. 

 6711 A, B, C. Ooccinia indica, W. 8r A. Prodr. 347 ;. Wight III. 1. 105 ; Dene, 

 in Jacq. Voy. Bot. t. 72 ; Hook. Ic. PI. 1. 138 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. j)t. i. 673 ; 

 Balz. 8f Oibs. Bomb. Fl. 103. 0. Schimperi, Naud. I. c. ser. 4, xii. 16. 0. 

 Wightiana, Roetn. Synops. ii. 93 ; Miq. I. c. 674. — Sheede Hort. Mai. viii. t. 14. 



Throughout India, common. — ^Distbib. Malaya, Africa. 



Lewoes 2-4 in. diam., 5-angular, papillose, seabrid ; petiole 1 in. Mam! : pedimde 

 1 in., jointed below the flower ; calyx-lobes linear-oblong ; corolla nearly 1 in., lobes 

 long-triangular. Female pedimcle about J in. Ovan/ smooth. Fruit bright scarlet. 



Vae. palmata, W. & A. Prodr. 348 ; leaves deeply lobed segments sometimes nar- 

 row and sinuate. B. alcesefolia. Herb. Bottler. — Principally in the Deccan Peninsula. 

 Uook.f. in Oliv. Fl. Trap. Afr. ii. 551 keeps C. quinqueloba {Schrad. in, EcM. ^ Zeyh. 

 Emm. 280) distinct from this var., but it is not easy to do so. — Whether this plant 

 is Bryonia grandis, DC. Prodr. iii. 305 with aculeate fruit, or B. Mormoi of the same 

 work, also said to have aculeate fruit, is perhaps now not material. 



13. CITCVRBZTA, Linn. 



Large climbing herbs, hispid or hairy ; tendrils 2-4-fid. Leaves petioled, cor- 

 date, ovate, 5-angular or lobed. Flowers monoecious, all solitary, yellow, very 

 large. Male : calyx-tube campanulate, lobes 6, linear or foliaceous ; corolla 



