Cucumis. } LXIV. CUCURBITACEE (HOOKER), ! 543 
scurely 3-gonous, yellow-green, glabrous, covered with distant rounded 
tubercles. : 
Tropical Africa, cultivated in Abyssinia and elsewhere. The native country of the 
cucumber is unknown. Can it be a form of C. metuliferus ? 
2. C. metuliferus, Z. Mey. in Herb. Drege, Harv. et Sond. Fl. Cap. ii. 
495, Annual, deep green. Stem slender, angled, and petioles and 
peduncles hispid with stiff white spreading penetrating bristles. Leaves 
membranous, as long as or longer than broad, 2-4 in. diameter, pal- 
mately 3—5-lobed, pubescent with appressed stiffish hairs above, below 
subscabrid; lobes short, triangular, acute, irregularly toothed. Ten- 
drils stout. Male #1. : Calyx hispid. Anthers ciliate; connective pro- 
duced into a short broad glandular appendage. Female fl.: Ovary 
covered with strong stout tumid prickles. Fruit 3-5 in. long, toile 
3-gonous, oblong, fleshy, smooth, armed with few scattered long thic 
conical hard-tipped 3 in. spines, orange-red. Seeds (not seen) en- 
Veloped in a fleshy sac (Kirk) —Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat. sér. 4, xi. 10. 
9. Tinneanus, Kotschy et Peyr. Pl. Tinn. t. viii. 
Upper Guinea. Nicer river, Borgu, Barter / 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! 
or Guinea. Angola, Golungo Alto, Ambriz, and Pungo Andongo, Dr. Wel- 
uitsch | 
Mozamb. Distr. Shumpanga, Shire river, &c., Dr. Kirk! (with good analysis 
and notes.) 
Also found in Natal. Barter describes the fruit as bitter. 
3. C. dipsaceus, Ehren). in Naud. 1.c. 25. Annual, pale bright 
eteen. Stem slender, angled, and petioles and peduncles hispid with 
slender stiff bristles. Leaves membranous, 2$—4 in. broad, rounded or 
oblone-reniform, obtusely 3—5-sinuate or -lobed or quite entire, very 
slight y toothed, shortly scabrid on both surfaces. Tendrils rather stiff 
elow the middle. Male 4.: Calyx villous with soft spreading hairs. 
nthers with the connective produced into a long flat gland-tipped 
‘ppendage. Female f.: very shortly peduncled. Ovary covered densely 
With soft white velvety hairs. Fruit broadly ovoid, } in. long, most 
ensely clothed with soft spreading spines. Seeds small, } in. long, 
Suiptic-oblong,, pale brown, smooth, without thickened border or de- 
Pressed disk.— Naud. Le., €. Bardana, Fenzl in Kotschy It. Nub. n. 99; 
* Cognata, Fenzl, 1.c. 107; C. ambigua, Fenzl, l.c. 352; Momordica 
dasycarpa, Hochst. in Schimp. Hb. Abyss. No. 1419; C. Chate, L.; 
Schweinfurth, Hb. Gallabat, n. 108. 
Upper Guinea. Gambia, Ingram! . 
G Nile Land. Khartoum, Bromfield ! Abyssinia, Schimper! Nubia, Kotschy! 
allabat, Schweinfurth ! th whit 
ulp intensely ‘Shad according to Naudin. The ovary densely covered with w ‘sh 
rhe resembles C. Melo, from forms of which I fancy it would be difficult to er ae 
*wering specimens. I have seen no fruits of C. cognata and ambigua, but have foun 
® Teason to doubt their specific identity with either this or C. Melo. ane fo 
Myr cinfurth (Pl. Nilot. 17) refers C. ambigua, Fenzl, to C. Chate, a —_ tl , 
), and ©, Bardana, Fenzl, to C. sativus, L. (Fl. Athiop. 63), possibly correctly. 
4. C, Figarei, Delile in Cut. Hort. Monsp. ex Naud. lc. 16. Peren- 
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