H?. CUCVRBITACEAE 2QL 



Disc at base of style indistinct or wanting. 4. 



4. Stamens inserted at the throat of the calyx. 



4 MOMORD1CA. 

 Stamens inserted in the calyx tube. 0. 



5. Male flowers solitary or in fascicles or heads. Stamens with 



a lengthened apical connective. 5 CUCUMIS. 



Male flowers in racemes. 6. 



6. Staminodes in female flowers thread-like, curved. Connective 



not prolonged at apex. Fruit bottle-shaped. 



10 TOXANTHERA. 

 Staminodes in female flowers small or wanting. Connective 

 prolonged, or, if not, fruit oblong without a beak. 



8 KEDROSTIS. 



7. Corolla campanulate. Anthers cohering. Filaments sometimes 



all united in a column. 7 COCCINIA. 



Corolla more or less rotate. 8. 



8. Calyx tube of male flowers long, cylindrical, funnel-shaped. 9. 

 Calyx tube of male flowers short, top or bell-shaped. 11. 



9. Anthers connate. Female flowers without staminodes. 



2 PEPONIUM. 

 Anthers free or loosely cohering. Female flowers wih stami- 

 nodes. 10. 



10. Flowers small, yellow or red. Anthers cohering. 



1 TROCHOMERIA. 

 Flowers large, white. Climbing herb. 12 LAGENARIA. 



11. Stamens inserted at the throat of the calyx. 



4 MOMORDICA. 

 Stamens inserted in the tube of the calyx. 12. 



12. Flowers dioecious. Stigma 1, 3 lobed. Leaf stalk with 2 glands 



at the apex. 3 SPHAEROSICYOS. 



Flowers monoecious. Stigmas 3, two lobed. Leaf stalk gland- 

 less. 13. 



13. Stamens with a lengthened 2 cleft apex. Tendrils simple or 



wanting. 5 CUCUMIS. 



Connective of stamens not prolonged at apex. Tendrils 



branched. 6 CITRULLUS. 



1. TROCHOMERIA Hook. 



1. hookeri Harv. Coast and Midlands. 



2. sagittate Bth, & Hk.f. Coast and Midlands. Grassveld. 



Common. 



3. pectinata Bth. & Hki. Zululand. 



2. PEPONIUM Naud. (Peponia Naud.) 



mackenii Naud. In bush, near Durban. Rare. 



3. SPHAEROSICYOS Hk.f. 



sphaericus Hk.f. Coastbelt. Common. "uSelwa." 



