CUCRBITACEAE, Gourd Family
Prostrate or climbing vines, usually with tendrils; leaves alternate, palmately veined, usually lobed; monoecious; flowers mnoosporangiate, sometimes with vestiges of the other sporophylls, solitary or clustered; calyx 5-6-lobed; corolla campanulate, rotate, or salverform. regular, S-6-lobed; stamens 3, more or less united; carpellate flowers epigynous; carpels usually 3, style I, stigmas 2-3; ovary 1-locuJed with large parietal placentae, or 2-3-loculed with central placentae; fruit usually a pepo.
Cucurbitaceae