Cucurbitaceae: Answers to key questions in Budd's Flora leading to this family. 

	herbs; NOT [shrubs or trees]
	plants green or with some chlorophyll; NOT [plants parasitic or saprophytic, without chlorophyll]
	climbing plants with tendrils
	flowers not in heads or spikes; NOT [flowers in long or short spikes], NOT [flowers in heads or in form resembling a head]
	flowers with two floral rings, but with the petals wholly or partly united forming a tube or bell]
	ovary inferior; NOT [ovary superior]