1286 CUCURBITACEAE 
5. CUCUMIS L. Annual or perennial vines. Leaves with toothed or 
promin En To obed blades. Flowers monoecious. Coro e rotat aminodia 
f the pistillate flowers obsolete or wanting. Style short. B sus obtuse. 
Berry rugose or echinate.—About 25 species, mostly Asiatie and African 
Corolla 3-5 em. broad: fruit not prickly. 1. C. Melo. 
Corolla 1—1.5 cm. broad: fruit prickly. 2. C. Anguria. 
1. C. Melo L. Stem stout: leaf-blades oe to suborbicular, 1.5 dm. long 
or less, merely sree or shallowly lobed: corolla 3-5 cm. wide, yellow: fruit 
elo ri or Pe sed, Ere — (MEL ae SN TA- 
LO Musk E inelands, cult. grounds, and 
ee Coastal Plain, Fla. to Tex. Nat . of 
Asia and cult.—(W. I., Mex., C. A., S. A.) 
2. C. Anguria L. Stem slender: leaf o mostly 
5-8 em. long, deeply 3-5-lobed: corolla 1-1.5 em 
wide, yellow: fruit oval to sip ce dum Gu e. 
WEST-INDIAN GHERKIN.  GOOSE-BERRY ds mis | 
ets and Nag es Coastal p Fla. to Tex., ie È 
Ga.—(W. I., Mex., C. A., S. A.)—These ee spec 
of Cutomis, 'althou ugh not Dome oT in 
our range, continue to appea 
6. CUCURBITA [Tourn.] L. Annual vines. Leaves with lobed blades. 
Flowers monoecious or rarely dioecious. Corolla rotate. Staminodia wanting. 
Stigmas erect, 2-lobed. Berry variable in shape, the 
rind smooth, woody.—One species. 
1. C. Lagenaria L. Plant musk- scented, clammy- 
pubescent: leaf-blades a to triangular or orbicu- 
lar-ovate, 1-3-dm. long, sinuate or denticulate: corolla 
white with greenish veins, 5-7 wide; lobes broad 
d d, erose-crenate: berry usually somewhat 
clavate. [Lagenaria Lagenaria Cockerell. ]J—( 
CAL ) ickets and waste- 
places, Coastal Plain, Fla. to Tex. Nat. of Old 
World tropies and cult.— —(W. I., Mex., C. A., S. A.) 
7. PEPO [Tourn.] Mil. Annualor perennial vines. Leaves with toothed 
or lobed blades. Flowers monoecious. Corolla oo typically large. 
Pistillate flowers with staminodia. Ovary 1-celle 
tigmas 2-lobed. Berry fleshy, with a tough rind.— 
About 10 species, American, African, and Asiatie.— 
PUMPKINS. GOURDS. 
. Pepo okeechobeensis Small. Annual with clammy 
pubescent foliage oe un ced forked id 
- a de E 2 ue orbicular-reniform 
utlin dm vide ace ly cordate, shallowly 
5- -- bed, ds lobes peste dentate: flowers pedi- 
celled: hypanthi ium Paso cent: sepals subulate or 
subulate-lanceolate: corolla cream- oed mpan 
late, finely Sea, the lobes ru -crenulate : Dos (pepo) ier UN E: 
m. in diameter, bright-green and usually flecked and somewhat streaked w 
whitish or dark- -green spots: seeds oe 8-12 mm. long, idus 
