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494 - CUCURBITACEE (Sond.) [Cucumis 
corolla as in the male flower. Ovary with 3 placentas, ovoid, villous or 
smooth. Style trifid. Stigmas 3, thick. Fruit a globose, rarely oblong, 
3 or pseudo 6-celled, many-seeded pepo. Seeds oval, compressed, with 
obtuse margins. ZH. § Z./ Enum. p. 279. 
Annual or perennial, prostrate herbs. Tendrils bifid, rarely trifid or undivided. 
Leaves deeply 3—5-lobed, lobes lobulate or dissect, with rounded sinus. Peduncles 
i , I-flowered. Flowers yellow. Pepo with fleshy or spongious, white, yel- 
lowish, reddish or purple, sweet or bitter, pulp. Name unexplained. 
1, C. vulgaris (Schrad. 1. ¢.) ; root annual; leaves stalked ; the 
upper ones 3-parted ; middle segment sinuated, pinnatifid ; lateral ones 
2-fid ; lobes obovate-rotundate-obtuse, scabrid ; radical leaves 5-parted; 
fruit elliptico-globose, glabrous, when young often woolly. Naudin. 1. ¢. 
p. 100. Cucurbita Citrullus, Linn. Citrullus caffer, Schrad. l. c. (fruit 
sweet). Citrullus amarus, Schrad.! 1. ¢. Cucumis Colocynthis, Thunb. ! 
herbar. var. y. e Drege herb. Momordica lanata, Thunb-! fl. Cap. 36. 
(fruit bitter.) 3 
Has. In the sands of the Cape downs, near Tigerberg and Rietvalley, and in 
similar localities, Somerset ; Gamkariver, Zeyher, 587. Jan._May. (Herb. Th., 
~ Hm., Hk., D., Sd.) 
Stem woolly or pubescent. Radical leaves often 6 inches long, 5 inches wide, on 
a petiole of the same length ; upper ones gradually smaller, scabrous above, hairy 
beneath or nearly glabrous. Pepo the size of an apple or of a child’s head ; when 
edible or sweet it is called water-melon or Kaffir water-melon ; when bitter, it is the 
bitter apple or wild water-melon of the colonists. 'The pulp of the latter may be used 
like that of Colocynth; conf. Pappe Flor. Cap. med. p. 14. 
IX. CUCUMIS, Linn. 
Flowers moneecious or dicecious. Male: Calyx campanulate, 5-fid. 
Corolla patent, limb 5-partite. Stamens 3, inserted at the base of the 
corolla, one-dimidiate ; anthers posterior, linear, gyrose, terminated by 
Bh.P gomec bilobed connectivum. Female : Calya and corolla as in the 
e. Sti 3, thick. Frwit a pepo or gourd, 3 or spuriously 6-celled, 
duicjesoden Seeds oval, compressed, not margined. Schrad. Naudin. ! 
Endl. Gen. 5137. 
Herbaceous, annual or “pecans a sate — succulent stems, simple, 
rarely r wanting iL tendrils, ir an angular axillary > soli 
fascicled, yellow. Name from xucvos cucumber ! ie 2 
Tendrils none or soon deciduous. Stem erect wm «s+ (9) Tigidus. 
Tendrils simple. Stems prostrate. 
Fruit spinous or muricate, 
rie me i large, conical spines. 
: ves cordate, angulate, or subtrilobed .... --. (1) metuliferus. 
_ Leaves deeply palmately 5-lobed ton ... (6) Naudinianus, 
rest short, thin, often weak, spinelike bristles. 
< Leaves 3-5-lobed, lobes rotundate-obtuse ; ovary ob- 
long ; pepo ovoid... ee ev ei ... (2) Africanus, 
~ pees PR kien oe rotundate-obtuse ; ovary 
3 pepo globose... as bes we myriocarpus. 
Leaves 3~5-lobed, middle lobe lanceolate-acute 3 pepo 2 
Perennial, 
