CUCURBITACEAE 457 



cm long solitary or few in each axil, males and females often in the 

 Sp 1 sefr^^ "^"'^ "'^ ellipfioid, pointed; about 2 cm long. (Fl. 



tv.^V?^"-^''^^^ '^"*^^' °'='=a«onal, fl. Sept.-Feb.; widely distributed in 

 tne i-hUippines, probably introduced. India to Japan southward to Malaya. 



2. CUCURBITA Linnaeus 



Coarse, herbaceous, hispid or hairy annual vines. Leaves cordate, 5- 

 angled or lobed. Flowers large, yellow, monoeceous, all solitary. Calyx- 

 tube campanulate, the lobes 5, linear or foliaceous. Corolla campanulate, 

 5Jobed. Male flowers with 3 stamens inserted in the calyx-tube; anthers 

 connate, one 1-celled, two 2-celled. Female flowers with an oblong ovary; 

 style short; stigmas 3, bifid. Fruit very large, indehiscent, fleshy. Seeds 

 compressed, margined, smooth. (The L^tin name for the gourd.) 



Species 10, in the warmer parts of America, several now cultivated in 

 all warm countries. 

 1. C. MAXIMA Duchesne. Calabaza (Sp.) ; Squash. 



A very coarse, prostrate or climbing, annual, herbaceous vine, reaching 

 a length of 4 m or more. Leaves orbicular-cordate, hispid, 15 to 30 cm 

 in diameter, shallowly 5-lobed, rather finely toothed, the upper surface 

 often mottled. Flowers campanulate, erect, yellow, about 12 cm long, the 

 corolla limb about as wide, 6-lobed, the male flowers with longer peduncles 

 than the female ones. Fruit very large, variable in shape. (Fl. Filip. 

 pi. 320.) 



Commonly cultivated for its edible fruit, fl. all the year ;^ throughout the 

 Philippines. Cultivated in all warm and tropical countries, probably a 

 native of tropical America. 



3. TRICHOSANTHES Linnaeus 



Slender or coarse herbaceous vines with 3- to 9-lobed denticulate leaves. 

 Flowers white, the male peduncles usually in axillary pairs, one 1-flowered, 

 the other racemose, the bracts large, small, or none. Calyx .long-tubular, 

 teeth 5, entire, serrate, or laciniate. Corolla deeply 5-fid, the lobes long- 

 fimbriate; stamens 3, anthers connate, the cells conduplicate. Female 

 flowers solitary. Calyx and corolla as in the male. Ovary 1-celled; style 

 slender, 3- or 6-fid at the apex. Fruit globose or ovoid, smooth. Seeds few 

 to many, compressed. (Greek "hair" and "flower," from the fimbriate 

 petals.) 



Species about 40, India to Japan southward to Australia, 3 or 4 in the 

 Philippines. 



Male inflorescence without bracts; slender vines with small flowers and 

 small fruits 1. T. eucumerina 



Male inflorescence with large bracts; coarse vines with large flowers and 

 large, globose, red fruits 2. T. quinquangulata 



- 1. T. eucumerina L. Melon-melonang, Melon-daga (Tag.). 



Scandent, herbaceous, 5 to 6 m high or less, the stems green, 4-angled, 

 somewhat hairy. Leaves somewhat orbicular in outline, 7 to 14 cm long 

 and broad, 3- or 5-lobed, the lobes broad, rounded or obtuse, the sinuses 

 broad or narrow, rounded, the base broadly cordate, somewhat pubescent 

 on both surfaces. Staminate inflorescence long-peduncled, axillary, cymo- 

 sely 6- to 15-flowered, bracts minute or none. Calyx-tube dilated above, 



