MINBU IN UPPER BURMA. 
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311. Luffa acutangula Roxb. 
Minbu district, generally cultivated. 
DISTRIBUTION. — Rajputana, Upper Gangetic plain, Central India, 
Bengal, Assam, Burma, Laccadive islands, Ceylon. 
156. Benincasa Savi. 
312. Benincasa cerifera Savi. 
Minbu district. 
Distribution. — Cultivated throughout the Eastern tropics. 
157. Momordica Linn. 
313. Momordica Cliarantia Linn. 
Alluvial belt and irrigated tracts cultivated. 
Burm. Kyet-hinga . 
DISTRIBUTION. — Cultivated throughout the Eastern tropics. 
314. Momordica macrophylla n. sp. 
Branches angled and grooved, sparsely scurfily hairy in the 
grooves. Leaves petiolate, cordate, mucronate, with base cuneate at 
the insertion of the petiole, membranous glabrous or with a few scurfy 
hairs on the nerves, margin entire, basal nerves 3 including the midrib, 
the lateral ones almost at once dividing into two branches. Petiole 
6 cm. long, with one or more warty glands, lamina of fully developed 
leaf 13*8-16 cm. long, 11- 14 cm. broad at its widest part. Tendrils 
unbranched. Male flowers usually solitary on unbranched peduncles } 
sometimes three or four on as many pedicels, branching from a main 
peduncle. Peduncles shorter even than the petioles. Bract broadly 
reniform entire, about 3 cm. from base to apex, about 3*8 cm. in trans- 
verse diameter, at the top of the peduncle completely enclosing the 
male flower. Flower unexpanded about 2*2 cm. long. Sepals oblong 
acute, thick and rather fleshy in the bud, twisted, pubescent. Petals 
not seen expanded but apparently yellowish without a black base* 
Stamens three, two 2-anthered, one i-anthered, filaments black. 
Female flowers not seen. Fruit covered with coarse soft spines about 
3 mm. long. 
Taepo, Tenasserim, 5,000 ft. Gallatly ! Minbu district, Shaik 
Mokim ! 
This was first collected by Gallatly in 1877 in fruit. There is 
an immature fruit on the single sheet of his gathering in Calcutta 
Herbarium, and a note stating “ the only plant of this met with. 
A large fruit is in spirit”. Unfortunately the large fruit appears to 
have departed to that limbo where all such things go when there is 
