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odor that they exhale when perfectly ripe, though to some 

 persons this odor is disagreeable because of its intensity. 

 As a table fruit, however, the melon is almost worthless, 

 for though it is somewhat eaten when over-ripe, it is 

 neither sweet nor of pleasant flavor. At best it is made 

 the basis of a dessert by the use of sugar and wine to 

 impart to it the sweetness and flavor which it naturally 

 lacks. It is also capable of use in preserves, and forms 

 the basis of the smallest of the stuffed mangoes, — a name 

 which is no more appropriate to it than those of pom- 

 egranate and mock orange. 



Related to the Dudaim, but rather to be regarded as an 

 undeveloped netted melon, is the other form of the musk 

 melon here shown, which is likewise destitute of longitu- 

 dinal grooves, and possesses a jelly-like pulp about the 

 seeds. This appears to be cultivated more or less exten- 

 sively under the names of mango and vegetable peach, 

 mainly for use in pickling, preserving, and jellies, though 

 when fully ripe it is more palatable than the Dudaim, and 

 capable of use on the table, if sliced with a liberal allow- 

 ance of sugar and a little lemon or other flavoring substance. 

 Unlike the Dudaim, it is covered with slightly elevated gray 

 lines, generally distinct from one another, but suggestive of 

 the more pronounced ridges of the netted varieties of can- 

 taloup; but it possesses the same powerful fragrance at 

 maturity, when it assumes a uniform light lemon color. 



Explanation of plate 30. — Fig. 1, Dish of Dudaim Melons, half size; 

 fig. 2, Preserving Melon, two-thirds natural size. 



5. TILLANDSIA UTRICULATA L.* 



Specimens of this Tillandsia were received in February t 

 1893, from W. T. Swingle and T. Holm, Mr. Swingle 



Linnaeus, Species Plantarum (1753), i. 286, with earlier references; 

 Willd. Sp. ii. 11; Lamarck, Encycl. i. 617; Leconte, Ann. N. Y. Lyceum, 

 1826, ii. 129; Roem. & Schultes, Syst. vii. 1220; Chapm. IL S. U. S. 471; 

 Baker, Journ. Bot. 1888, xxvi. 144, and Handbook Bromel. 229; Garber, 



