The Natural Hiffory of Jamaica. 227 
Cefalpinus mentions two forts of this Melon, faying caro interna aliis can- 
dida, aliis rubens, and that the latter is the beft, he takes likewife notice 
of the Seed, that ’tis colore Nigro, aut rubente aut fulvo. The Pulp next the 
Bark is the lefs fapid. Cefalp. 
In Alexandria they make holes in the outward fides of this Fruit and 
draw out the Liquor, and fell Glaffes of it to thofe who are hot. Zd._ 
The unripe Fruit kept in a heap of Wheat ripens. Luga. Who mentions 
one reddifh femine ex Afia miffo. | 
The Seed of the Jndian is larger and f{moother. 7. B. 
z The Seed from New-York, called Maracock, proved on fowing to be this. 
Act, 
IX. Cucumis anguria folio latiore, afpero, fructs minore candido {pinulis obtufis 
muricato. Cat p.103. <Anguria Americana, frutiuechinato eduli. Tournef. Inf. 
P1077. 
This has a deep, white, oblong Root, fending forth feveral long, trailing 
Branches. The Stalks are four-fquare, and rough, five or fix Foot long, at 
about every four Inches diftance of which come out the Leaves, Clavicles, 
and Flowers. Ihe Leaves are divided into five Sections, they are curled, 
finuated, and rough, the undermoft, or Sections at Bale, being fimallett eve- 
ty way. The fifth Section is three Inches long, and has two notches in it, 
Their Foot-Stalks are four Inches long, and rough. Fx alis foliorum come 
the Clavicles, which are an inch long. from‘thence alfo coine the Flowers, 
feveral on two Inch long Foot-Stalks, which are yellow, monopetalous, their 
ore being divided into five Sections. The Fruit is of a pale green colour, 
Oval, as big as a Walnut, having many fhort, blunt, thick Tubercles, 
fharper than thofe of other Cucumbers, and within a Pulp, a great many 
fmall Seeds, like thofe of other Cucumbers. : 
It grows every where about the Town, and in moft Plantations, as well as 
in the Caribes. 
This Fruit is eaten very greedily by Sheep, and all manner of Cattle, 
and they are thought to thrive extremely by feeding on them. 
The Fruic is likewife eat in lieu of our Exropean Cucumbers, are very 
cooling, and equal, if not exceed them in every thing. 
Pifo in his firft Edition fays nothing of this, and Marcgrave meations it, 
whereby Pifo takes occafion in his fecond Edition to {peak of it, and rca- 
fons upon it out of his own imagination, forthe Fruit of this is no way like 
that of our Cucumis afininus, neither is it bitter, or yields any thing like 
elateriam, but is very much coveted, and eaten by Cattle of all forts, and 
Men themfelves, whence one may make a conjecture concerning feveral 
things of thar Author, that they were his own conje@ures, or the produc 
of his own Brain, rather than his own Experience, or that of others. 
The Leaves of this in famaica are rough, whatever Dr. Plskenet may have 
found in Exzlifh Gardens, or fay to the contrary, p.59. of his Mantiffa. 
X..Cacumis minima frattu ovali nigro levi. Cat: p. 103. Tab. 142. Fig. 1. 
Bryonia Canadenfis, folio angulato, fruttu nigro. Tonrnef. i p. 102. Cucumis 
fruttu minime, viridi, ad maturitatem producto nigricante. Plukenct. Alm. p. 12}. 
An bryonia alba bevis Americana cortice alto nitente; forte Tztaczazalic Mexicen- 
fitus feu herba glutinofa ey candens. Flernandez apud Reccum, lib, 8. f. 283. Pluk. 
Alm. p. 71. Phytogr. Tab.272. Fig. 3? 
‘This Cucumber has 2 very flender Stafk, which mounts by its Clavictes, 
or runs along the Ground for five or fix Foot in length, catching hold of any 
thing ic comes near. The Leaves, Flowers, and Clavicles, come out hete 
artd there together. The Leaves ftand on an Inch long Foot-Sralks, are of a 
roundifl 
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