LXV. CUCURBITACE^. 
852 
[, Zanonia , 
wings 1*75 in. across. Hab . Damp jungle climbing on trees or 
shrubs. Rare. Perak, Gunong Bubu and Batang Padang River 
(Kunstler). Distrib. India, Ceylon. 
(2) Z. Clarkei King, l.c. 41. 
A lofty climber 60 to 80 ft. long. Leaves coriaceous ovate 
round acute, base broad emarginate; nerves 5 to 7 radiating from 
base, 2-5 to 3-5 in. long, 2-5 to 3 in. wide; petioles *75 in. long. 
Flowers unknown. Fruit cone-shaped, ovoid cylindric, dark green 
mottled lighter, 5 to 8 in. long. Seed star-shaped with 7 or 8 
projecting processes -i in. thick, brown and pustulate on the faces 
1 in. long; wings thin 1 in. wide. Hab. Rare. Hanging from 
lofty trees. Selangor, Batu Caves. Perak, Kinta (Kunstler). 
10 . ALSOMITRA, Benth. and Hook. fil. 
Large climbers. Leaves with 3 oblong leaflets. Flowers small, 
unisexual, white in panicles with filiform branchlets. Males calyx 
rotate, 5-lobed, segments oblong acute. Corolla rotate, 5-lobed, 
lobes blunt. Stamens 5; anthers oblong, straight i-celled. Female 
ovary elongate, clavate i-celled. Styles conic 3 to 4. Stigmas 
semilunar. Capsule elongate, clavate, truncate, apex 3-valved. 
Seeds in 6 rows, corrugate incised on margin with a terminal mem¬ 
branous wing. Species 9, Indo-Malaya, Australia, America. 
(1) A. clavigera Roem. Syn. Fasc. ii. 118; Hook. fil. Bot. Mag. 
i. 6017; King, l.c. 42. Zanonia sarcophylla Wall. PL /l5. Rar. 
ii. 28, t. 133. 
Slender climber. Leaflets fleshy, blunt, base narrowed, sub- 
sessile 1*5 to 2*3 in. long, *65 by 1 in. wide. Panicles 6 to 12 in. 
long, lax. Flowers -i in. across. Capsule 1-5 in. long, -4 in. through. 
Seeds muricate. Hab. In rocky spots. Kedah, Tanjong Sirih. 
Lankawi, Pulau Langon (Curtis); near Kwah. Distrib. India, 
Tenasserim. 
Cultivated Plants 
Luff a cegyptiaca Mill. Card. Did. viii ; King, l.c. 33. Native names : 
Petola Manis; Ketola Manis. The Loofar. Slender long 
climber with lobed leaves, 4 to 6 in. across, long tendrils. 
Flowers light yellow expanding at dusk, 2 in. across; petals 
rounded, tube short. Fruit oblong cylindric smooth, very 
fibrous, 2 to 6 in. or more long. 
L. acutangula Roxb. Native name : Petola Sanding. Chiefly 
differs from the last in its 10-angled fruit, but these cultivated 
Loofars require, as King points out, careful study from the 
life. 
Benincasa cerifera Savi Bibl. Ital. ix. 15. Native names : Kundur; 
Kundur China. The Wax Gourd. A large gourd with round 
lobed leaves and yellow flowers 2 in. wide. Fruit oblong, 
sub-cylindric 12 to 18 in. long, 8 to 10 in. through, hairy when 
