| Leaves angled or lobed, sometimes glandular: fls. white or yellowish, large, staminate and pistillate on different plants or sometimes on different branches of the same plant; calyx short, often campanulate: fr. a small, scarlet gourd, sometimes marbled, with an insipid pulp.—-Twenty species from the tropics of Asia and Afr. A. Cogniaux in DC., Mon. Phan. 3:528. C. cordifolia is treated as a tender annual, requiring an early start and no special cult. The genus is sometimes referred to Cephalandra. | | Leaves angled or lobed, sometimes glandular: fls. white or yellowish, large, staminate and pistillate on different plants or sometimes on different branches of the same plant; calyx short, often campanulate: fr. a small, scarlet gourd, sometimes marbled, with an insipid pulp.—-Twenty species from the tropics of Asia and Afr. A. Cogniaux in DC., Mon. Phan. 3:528. C. cordifolia is treated as a tender annual, requiring an early start and no special cult. The genus is sometimes referred to Cephalandra. |