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prepared in large quantities at Hewra, for the supply of the 

 medical stores. 



2. C Vulgaris, Schrader in Linn. t. xii, p 412. — Leaves larger 

 and softer than in the preceding ; fruit also larger, uniform in colour 

 or sometimes marbled, glaucous, with a whitish powder, pulp sweet 

 and eatable, sometimes very bitter. This is the " Dilpussund" of 

 Guzerat gardeners, and is a very good vegetable. We know not 

 whether it is a native of the country or not, but we place it here, 

 as there has been much confusion of ideas regarding it. The 

 common Water Melon is a variety of this species, altered by long 

 cultivation. Syn. Cucumis citruUus, Linn. ; C fistulosus, Stocks 

 in Hook. Jour. Bot. iii, p 74, t. 3. 



7. MOMORDICA, Linn. 



\. M DioiCA, Roxb. Fl Ind. iii, p 709. — Dioecious; root 

 tuberous, perennial ; leaves longish-petioled, cordate at the base, 

 from entire to 3 to 4-lobed ; peduncles slender, male with a bracteole 

 close to the flower, cucullate, female with a smallish one near the 

 base ; flowers largish, yellow ; fruit ovate muiicated, bursting irregu- 

 larly, showing the red arillas of the seed, which are black, shining, 

 and almost spherical. Very common. Native name " Kurtoli." 



2. M Charantia, Linn. sp. 1433. — Stems hairy ; leaves 

 palniately 6-lobed, sinuate-toothed ; peduncles slender, with a reni- 

 form bracteole ; male ones with the bracteole about the middle, 

 female with it near the base ; fruit oblong-ovate, or almost spherical, 

 tubercled. Native name " Kurela." Syn. M muricata, Willd ; M 

 Roxburghiana, Don ; Cucumis africanus, Lind. in Bot. Reg. t. 980. 

 Common as food after having been steeped in salt-water. 



8. LUFFA, Tournef. 



1. L Amara, Roxb. Fl Ind. iii, p 715. — Leaves 5 to 7-lobed, 

 when young whitish, and soft to the touch, at length rough; male 

 racemes long-peduncled; fruit 3 to 4 inches long, ovoid, longitudi- 

 nally ribbed, lid deciduous ; floweirs pale-yellow, closely allied to 

 L acutangula. Native name " Ran Toorai." Common in hedges. 



2. L EcHiNATA, Roxb. loc. dit. — Dioecious ; leaves somewhat 

 hairy, about 6-lobed, repand-toothed ; tendrils bifid; flowers white, 

 1 inch in diameter; male racemes longer than the leaves; fruit 

 roundish-oval, clothed with long, straight, soft bristles. Not com- 

 mon; found only at Gundar, in Guzerat. 



9. TRICI-IOSANTHES, Linn. 



1. T CucuMERiNA, Linn. — Annual, climbing; leaves broadly 

 cordate, 3 to 7-angled or lobed, toothed or serrated; tendrils 



