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ORDER LXVIII. CUCURBITACEZ. 
Calyx 5-toothed, sometimes obsolete: petals 5, distinct or 
united, strongly: marked with reticulating veins, occasionally 
fringed: stamens 5, distinct or triadelphous: anthers 2-celled = 
ovary adhering to the tube of the calyx, often spuriously 1-cell-. 
ed: ovules solitary or indefinite: style short: stigmas 3, 2- 
lobed, very thick velvety or fringed: fruit fleshy: seeds usually 
ovate or compressed, enveloped in a juicy or dry and. membra- 
nous aril: albumen none: embryo straight. 
GENUS I. ZANONTA.. 
Dicecelia Monadelphia. Sex: Syst: 
Deriv. Named after G. Zanoni, author of the Istoria Botanica. 
Gen. Cuar. Ctimbing, glabrous plants-> leaves alternate, with- 
out stipules, quite entire: tendrils axillary: peduncles axillary. 
Mate Ftowers: Calyx 3-lobed: petals 5, patent, united into a 5- 
partite rotate corolla: stamens 5, filaments flat, connate at their 
base: anthers adnate, I-celled. Fem. rnowxrs: Limb of the calyx 
5-lobed: corolla as in the male: ovary 3-celled:. styles 3, patent, 
2-cleft at the apex: fruit fleshy, marked round the apex. by a circu- 
lar line, opening at the top by 3 valves: placenta central, fleshy,. 
3-angled : seeds ovate, with a large leafy border. : 
(1) Z. Invica. (Linn.) 
Ident. W.& A. prod. I. p. 340.—Dec. prod. III. p. 298. 
Engrav. Rheede Mal. VIII. t. 47, 48.—Wight’s Il. IT. t. 103. 
Spec. Cuar. Herbaceous: leaves elliptical, aeute, slightly car- 
date at the base: racemes ‘axillary: ovary club-shaped, with two 
ovules in each cell : fruit conical-cylindric, slightly 3-angled : flowers. 
small, pale-yellow. 
Travancore. Vingorla. Flowering in January and February. 
This is by no means a common plant. 
(2) Z. cravicEra. (Wall.) 
Ident. Don’s Mill. III. p. 4.—Walp. Pl. As. Rar. IT. p. 28. 
Spec. Cuan. Climbing shrub: leaves trifoliate ; leaflets oblong,. 
acuminated: fruit large, club-shaped. 
Silhet. 
