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3-cleft; male flowers white, fringed, shortly racemose, at the apex 

 of a long peduncle ; female solitary, short-peduncled ; fruit 2 to 4 

 inches long, ovate-pointed. Very common in hedges in Guzerat, 

 also in Southern Concan ; flowers from August to October. Syn. 

 T laciniosa, Willd. sp. iv, 601. " Junglee Parole" of the Marathas. 

 Has a reputation in fevers. 



2. T Palmata, Roxb. Fl Ind. iii, p 704, — Perennial climbing ; 

 leaves deeply lobed, tendrils 3-cleft ; male flowers racemose ; 

 pedicels short, each furnished with an ovate-toothed bracteole ; fruit 

 globose, size of an orange and of the same colour, and not unlike 

 that of the Nux-Vomica. This plant is much esteemed in diseases 

 of cattle, and is called " Mukal" or " Koundal." In jungles near 

 the Ghauts, common ; elsewhere rare. 



10. CUCUMIS, Linn. 



1 . C Trigonus, Roxb. Fl Ind. iii, 722. — Root perennial, all 

 over rough and scabrous ; stems creeping, slender, very little 

 branched ; leaves polymorphous, 3 to 5 to 7-lobed, or sometimes 

 many-lobed ; female flowers few, larger than the male ones ; ovary 

 densely covered with long hairs ; fruit small, oval, longitudinally 

 striped with light and dark-green, yellow and smooth when ripe; 

 pulp bitter. Syn. C pseudo colocynths, Royle lUust. t. 47, fig 2 ; 

 C eriocarpus, Boiss. Diagnos. ser. ii, p 59. Common all over the 

 Deccan ; extending from the Nelgherries to Cashmere, and also 

 Beloochisian, whence it was brought by Sir Bartle Frere. 



2. O PuBESCENS, Willd. sp. iv, 614. — Annual, all hirsute or 

 hispid, or scabrous ; leaves cordate at the base, sometimes reniform, 

 sometimes 3 to 7-lobed, with the sinuses rounded, ovary pubescent 

 and hirsute; fruit (in the Peninsular variety) covered with small 

 bristles, I to 1 1 inch' long, oval or oblong. Common in the 

 Deccan; fruit eaten. In Sind it is cultivated and sold in the 

 bazars under the name of " Chiber." Syn. C maderaspatanus and 

 turbinatus, Roxb. Fl Ind. iii, 723. Nandin considers this as the 

 parent of the Cucumis Melo, or Sweet Melon. The variety found 

 in Sind was published by Dr. Stocks in Hooker's Journal as 

 C cicatrisatus, vol. iv, p 148. The Cucumis prophetarum is com- 

 mon in Sind. 



11. COCCINIA, W. and A. 



1. C Indica, W. and A. Prod. 1, p 347. — Dioecious, climbing, 

 smooth ; leaves entire or 5-angled or lobed, or deeply palmately 

 5-cleft ; peduncles solitary, axillary, 1 -flowered ; corolla large, white ; 

 fruit oblong, red when ripe. Syn. Bryonia grandis, Linn. ; Rheed. 

 Mai. viii, t. 14; Rumpb. A'mb. v, t. 166. Hedges, common. 



