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3. C. BKelO, Zinn.; DC. Prodr. iii. 300; leaves orbicular-reniform &■ 

 angular or lobed lobes neither deep nor acute scabrid on both stirfaces and also 

 often with soft hairs, petals | in., fruit glabrous or somewhat hairy not spinous 

 nor tuberculate. Roxh. Fl. Ind. iii. 720 ; Wall. Cat. 6738 ; W. 8^ A. Prodr. 



341 ; Jacq. Mmog. du Melon, t. 1-38. 0. utilissimus, Roxh. I. e. 721 ; Wall. 

 Cat. 6731; W. I A. Prodr. 342. 0. flexuosus, Linn.; DC. I.e.; W. 8,- A. 

 Prodr. iii. 342. 0. maculatus, Willd. ; DC. I. c. 301 ; W. Sf A. Prodr. iii. 342. 

 0. Gurmia and C. Chata, Wall. Cat. 6726? and 6727. C. cicatrisatus, StocTiS 

 in Hook. Kew Joum. Rot. iv. 148. 



Throughout India, cultivated.— Disteib. Cultivated in most hot countries, and 

 perhaps the cultivated form of (7. trigonus. 



Stems scabrous. Leaves 3 in. diam. ; petiole 2 in. Female pedtmcle sometimes 



2 in. Fruit spherical ovoid elongate or contorted. — The Melon, 



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4. C. sativus, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. iii. 300 ; leaves ovate 5-angular or 

 sligbtly lobed, lobes acute hispidulous on both surfaces and also often with sott 

 hairs, petals | in., fruit glabrous sometimes tuberculated commonly elongate. 

 Lamh. lU. t. 795 ; Roxh. Fl. Ind. iii. 720 ; Wall. Cat. 6737 ; W. 8f A. Prodr. 



342 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Rat. i. pt. i. 671 ; Natid. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 4, xi. 27; 

 Kurz in Joum. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 103. 0. muricatus. Wall. Cat. 673o A. 

 0. Hardwickii, Royle III. t. 47. — Rheede Sort. Mai. t. 6. 



Throughout India, cultivated. — Distrib. In all warm and warm temperate coun- 

 tries, cultivated ; where "wild unkno-wn. 



Stems scabrous. Leaves 3-6 in. diam. ; petiole 2-3 in. Female peduncle some- 

 times 2 in. Young ovary muricate -with rigid prickles. Fr?a^ commonly cylmaric, 

 12 by 1^ in. — The Cucumber, . , . 



. Vak. sikkimmds. Hook. f. Bot. Mag. t. 6206; fruit 15 by 6 in. clavate '^^K. 

 placentas. Concombre du Slkkim, "Saiid. in Ann, Sc. Nat. ser. 4, xi. 28. Cultivatea 

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Climbing herbs, hispid or scabrous ; tendrils 2-3-fid. Leaves petioled, .pal- 

 mately a-7-lobed, usually deeply with narrow sinuate-pinnatifid segments, but 

 sometimes little lobed. -F/o?<7e?-5 monoecious, all solitary, tolerably large. Maxe: 

 Cftlyx-tube campanulate, lobes 5 ; stamens 3, short ; anthers scarcely cohenngv 

 one 1-celled, two 2-celled, cells conduplicate, connective not producea 

 Female : calyx and corolla as in the male ; ovary ovoid ; style short, stigmas^^ 

 reniform ; ovules very many, horizontal ; placentas 3. Fruit globose or eUip- 

 soid, smooth, fleshy, indehiscent. Seeds very many, oblong, compressed, smootn. 

 — Distrib. Species 2, widely cultivated. 



1. C. Colocynthis, Schrad. in Linneea 1838, 414 ; leaves deeply di^<i^ 

 harshly scabrid, fruit globose rarely 3 in. diam. intensely hitter, ^m. tn Jioof^' 

 Journ. Bot. iii. 276 ; Wiffht Ic. t. 498 ; Miq. FL Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 662 ; 3^^. 

 in Ann, Sc. Nat. ser. 4, vol, xii. 99: Balz. & Gibs. Bomb. FL 101 ; Boiss. x^ 

 Onmt. u. 769. Oucumis Colonvnthi« Unr,.-. T)a ^-^- "^'^ fM)2 i Boxb. f i 



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