LXV. CUCURBITACEjE. 
Momordica.] 
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black. Female peduncles 1 to 2 in. long. Fruit ovate or globose, 
red with conical spikes all over it, 4 to 5 i n - through. Seed black 
ovate, edges lobulate. Hab. River-banks. Pahang, Tembehng, 
Tahan River. Selangor, Batu Caves; Semangkok Pass. Perak, 
Temengoh. Penang, Penara Bukit (Curtis). Kelantan, Kwala 
Aring (Yapp). Distrib. India, China, Malaya. 
5 . CEPHALANDRA, Schrader. 
Leaves 5-angled or lobed toothed. Flowers rather large, white. 
Male calyx campanulate, short, 5"l°ked. Corolla campanulate, 
short, 5-lobed. Stamens 3; anthers exsert conduplicate. Females 
as male. Ovary oblong; style long. Stigmas 3 bifid. Fruit 
cylindric. Species 12, all African but one. 
(1) C. indica Naud. Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 5, v. 16; Clarke, in 
Hdok. fit. F.B.I. ii. 621. . . 
Leaves 2 to 4 in. long, 5 _an gl e d> scabrid; petioles 1 m.^ long. 
Male peduncles 1 in. long. Calyx-lobes linear-oblong. Corolla 
1 in. wide, pure white. Female peduncles *25 in. long. Fruit 
1 to 2 in. long, ‘5 to 1 in. through, scarlet. Hab. Cultivated by 
Javanese and believed to be introduced from Java. Singapore. 
Johor, Kukub. Distrib. Malay isles. Native name : Pepasan. 
6. MELOTHRIA, Linn. 
Small climbing herbs. Leaves deltoid or ovate, truncate or 
cordate, entire or 3-lobed. Flowers very small, yellow or white. 
Males and females often from the same axil. Male pedicels long, 
clustered on long peduncles. Female long-pedicelled. Male calyx- 
tube short, teeth 5. Corolla 5-lobed. Stamens 3, m the middle 
of calyx-tube; anthers free, straight, connective prolonged 
Female ovary oblong ; style long. Stigmas 3, sub-globose. Fruit 
globose or fusiform. Seeds oblong compressed margined. Species 
55, tropics. 
Fruit not beaked. 
Fruit globose, red; leaves ovate-cordate 
Fruit oblong, white; leaves triangular . 
Leaves widely 3-lobed, sagittate 
Fruit beaked, fusiform . 
(1) M. affinis 
(2) M. indica 
(3) M. odorata 
var. triloba 
(4) M. marginata 
(1) M. affinis King, l.c. 38. , , , 
Climbing 4-angled. Tendrils bifid. Leaves ovate-cordate to 
triangular often 5-lobed, denticulate, scabrid-hispid on both sides, 
1-35 to 4-25 in. long, 1*5 to 3-25 in. wide; petioles *5 to 1 m. long 
Male and female flowers from same axil. Males m many-flowered 
umbels on pedicels 1 to 2 in. long; pedicels 20, glabrous, '35 m. 
long Flower *i in. across, globose pubescent. Calyx-teeth 
subulate 5. Fruit globose red, -4 to -5 in. through. Seeds obovoid, 
pitted. Hab. Johor, Batu Pahat. Pahang, Pekan. belangor, 
Fl.M.P., 1. 3 
