843 
Hodgsonia .] lxv. cucurbitace^. 
often compressed and corrugate on edge, many; in capsular fruits, 
winged. Species 600, whole world. [King, Journ. . 4 s. Soc. Beng. 
lxvii. (2), p. 24.) 
Female flowers solitary, fruit baccate. 
Anther-cells conduplicate or sigmoid. 
Petals cirrhiferous. 
Seeds 6, woody, large; testa fibrous 
Seeds numerous, small; testa not fibrous 
Petals entire, divided nearly at base. 
Calyx-tube elongate in male; anthers in¬ 
cluded 
Calyx-tube short; anthers more or less 
exsert. 
Stamens insert below the corolla mouth. 
Flowers yellow ..... 
Corolla campanulate, divided half-way. 
Flowers white ..... 
Anther-cells straight; connective produced. 
Flowers very small, solitary .... 
Flowers, males corymbose . • 
Female flowers in panicles; anther-cells straight. 
Fruit a berry . . . . - • 
Fruit a cylindric or campanulate capsule opening 
by a lid; seeds thin winged. 
Calyx-lobes 3; seeds winged all round 
Calyx-lobes 5 ; seeds winged at top only . 
1. Hodgsonia 
2. Trichosanthes 
3. Gymnopetalum 
4. Momordica 
5. Cephalandra 
6. Melothria 
7. Zehneria 
8. Gynostemma 
9. Zanonia 
10. Alsomitra 
1 . HODGSONIA, Hook. fil. 
Large climbers. Leaves thin or coriaceous, 3- to 5-lobed, 
tendrils 2- to 3-fid. Flowers usually large; males in long racemes ; 
bracts oblong, entire. Females solitary. Male calyx-tube long, 
mouth campanulate, teeth short, 5. Petals 5, fimbriate. Stamens 
3; anthers exsert linear. Females, ovary globose, i-celled , style 
long. Stigmas 3, bifid. Fruit large. Seeds 6, large, flat, ellipsoid 
with sunk veins. Species 2. 
(1) H. capniocarpa Ridl. Journ. F.M.S. Mus. x. 135. H. 
heteroclita King, l.c. 25 partly, not of Hooker. 
Long climber. Leaves coriaceous, palmate, base cordate; 
lobes entire, acute; nerves beneath hairy, 6 in. long, 7 in. wide; 
petioles 1 in. long. Male raceme woody, 6 in. long, scurfy with 
thick ovate bracts. Calyx-tube *5 in. long; lobes very short. 
Corolla-tube 2-5 in. long, scurfy-pubescent, -2 in. wide when open. 
Fruit 6 in. across, depressed globular grey-tomentose ; pericarp 
woody. Seeds 2 in. long embedded in an oily pulp. Hab. River- 
banks. Pahang River. Malacca (Maingay). Penang (Phillips, 
Porter, Wallich). Distrib. Sumatra. 
2 . TRICHOSANTHES, Linn. 
Climbers. Leaves entire or 3- to 9-lobed, toothed, tendrils 
usually 2- to 5-fid. Flowers unisexual, white, nocturnal. Males, 
peduncles usually in axillary pairs, one i-flowered, the other 
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