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MB. H. N. RIDLEY OH THE 



CTTCTJRBITACILE. 



ctlindbica, M. Boem. Syn. f asc. 2, p. 63 ; Gogn. in BO 



Monogr. iii. p. 456. 

 This is constantly cultivated in the gardens, being allowed to 



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grow 



The fibrous network is used 





guns 





Luff A purgafs, Mart. Syst. Mat. Med. Bras. p. 81 ; Naud. 

 Ann. 8c. Nat. ser. 4 xii. p. 125. — L. operculata, Cogn. in Mart. 

 Fl. Bras. vi. 6. p. 11. 



" Cabacinha." Used here as a purge and emetic ; but a dan- 

 gerous drug, as persons have been killed by the use of it. 













[Momordica Charaistia, L. 8p. PI. ed 



Eat Island ; see p. 3. 



Distribution. All tropical countries.] 



l 



1009 









Melo 



Monogr 



iii. p. 482. 



Melon 



exceed- 





mainland 





vulgaris, Schrad. in Linncea 



p. 588. 



very 



I found a plant in which all 







Da 



the flowers were converted into leaf-buds. 



Cucurbita Pepo, L. Sp. PI. ed. 1, p. 1010; Cogn. in 

 Monogr. iii. p. 545. 



This is the most commonly cultivated of the three last-named. 













Melons, except Luffa, grow 



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hills, and are often to be found 

 mixed up with endemic and other indigenous plants; so that 

 it is at first difficult to see which is cultivated and which wild. 

 None of these occur on any of the other islands except Eat 



















Melons in Webster 



The 



rats destroy a great quantity of them. 





Monogr 



Flum 



89. 



Bryonia 

 l Mart. 









Med 



Momordica 



Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat 

 n the Peak, growing n 











called 



greenish, fruit orange. It is 





















Distribution. Govaz to Eio Grande do Sul 











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