| Clematis (2) |  |
| Gourd (4) | |
| Grape (17) | |
| Liana (26) | |
| Morning glory (1) | |
| Vine (168) | |
In Central and South america the most commonly domesticated plants were maize bottle gourds squash and beans.
pumpkins melon cucumber watermelon bottle gourds and bitter gourd. Molecular data have revealed recently that both cucumber (Cucumis sativus L)
. and melon (Cucumis melo L.)are indigenous to India and likely to have originated from the foothills of The himalayas.
Arun Pandey from the Department of Botany University of Delhi India and Susanne Renner from the Departments of Systematic Botany and Mycology University of Munich Germany decided to produce a checklist of the Cucurbitaceae of India that would bring up-to date the information
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