458 
(8) C. rursinatus. ( Roxb.) 
Ident. Roxb. fl. Ind. IH. p. 728.—W. & A. prod. 1. p. 342. 
Spec. Cuan. Stems scabrous: leaves palmately lobed : lobes 
obovate, repandly and sharply toothed: cymes obtuse: female 
flowers solitary: fruit pear-shaped, bluntly 3-angled, variegated, 
glabrous, scarcely two inches in length: flowers largish, yellow. 
Coromandel, flowering nearly all the year. Fruit eatable. 
(4) C. rriconus. (Roxb. ) 
Tdent. Roxb. fi. Ind. III. p. 722,—W. & A. prod. J. p. 342. 
Engrav, Wight’s Icon. t. 497. 
Spec. Cuar. Stems scabrous: leaves 5-lobed: lobes rounded, 
yepandly and sharply toothed: male flowers crowded; female soli- 
tary: fruit oval, rounded at both ends, obsoletely 3-angled, 10- 
‘atriated, glabrous: flowérs small, yellow. 
Coromandel, flowering nearly all the year. 
(5) C. ivrecrivorius. (Roxrd.) 
Ident. Roxb. fi. Ind. IIT. p. 724. 
Sprzc. Cuar. Stems annual, much branched, anguler, hairy: 
leaves roundish, deeply sinuated: lobes rounded, much wrinkled, 
scabrous above, hairy underneath: flowers solitary, pure white, pu- 
bescent, the females with shorter peduncles: fruit globular, size of 
a nutmeg, smooth, orange-coloured. 
Bengal, flowering in the rainy season. 
GENUS II. LUFFA. 
Moneceia Pentandria. Sex: Syst: 
Deriv. The Arabic name of one of the species latinized. 
Gey. Cuan. Flowers rarely dicecious: calyx 5-toothed; tube 
in the male campanulate, in the female oblong-clavate : petals 5, 
distinct. Mare. Stamens 5, distinct, 2-3-adelphous. Fem. Style 
8-cleft: stigmas kidney-shaped or divided: fruit becoming dry and 
inwardly fibrous, usually opening by the decay of a lid at the apex, 
sometimes indehiscent: seeds usually with elevated or depressed 
dots: male flowers racemose ; female solitary. 
(1) L. amara. (Roxb. ) 
Ident. Roxb. fl. Ind. IL. p. 715.—W. &. A. prod. J. p. 348, 
Syn. L. Plukenetiana, Ser. in Dec. prod. III. p. 302. 
Engrav. Pluk. t. 172. f. 1. 
Spec. Cuan. Annual, climbing: leaves slightly seabrous, rounds 
ish-cordate, slightly 5—7-lobed ; male racemes long-peduncled ; stas 
