148 NOTES ON BELOOCHISTAN PLANTS. 
CuCURBITACEA. 
14. Cucumis cicatrisatus, J. E. 8.; caule scabro, foliis plus minus an- 
gulato-lobatis lobo terminali elongato, petiolis et limbo æquilongis, 
ovario pubescente striato subclavato truncato, collo inter ovarium et 
calycem nullo calyce seilicet e basi lata ad faucem contractam sub- 
conico tubo dentibusque æquilongis, peponida obovoidea turbinata 
vel pyriformi (sæpe obliqua uno nempe carpello sterili) glaberrima 
striis 10-12 viridibus impressis notata ad verticemque cicatricula 
calycis cireumscissi conspicue annulata. 
Has. Cultivated in Seinde under the name of Wungo. 
Its young fruits, when about 24 inches long and 2 inches in dia- 
meter, are eaten like the common Cucumber, and also when they are 
further advanced. When at the full size, they vary from 44 to 6 inches 
in length, and from 34 to 54 inches in diameter, and are then kept for 
seed, for they never turn aromatic like the Melon (Cucumis Melo), or 
like the Cucumis utilissimus and Cucumis Chate. Yn the broad base of 
the calyx, which, falling off, leaves a mark on the fruit, this species re- 
sembles the Melon, but is known by the elongated terminal lobe of the 
leaf, by the petioles never being longer than the leaf, by the sessile 
flowers, by the short and linear (not very long and filiform) teeth of 
the calyx, and by the insipid pyriform or inversely egg-shaped fruit, 
which, when mature, is dead white in colour, with striæ of a darker 
hue. It may be near Cucumis Dudaim. 
15. ZEHNERIA.—Bryonia Garcini (Willd.), as Dr. Wight long ago 
observed (* Illustrations,” vol. ii. p. 30), comes within or near the limits 
of Pilogyne, Schrader, which Endlicher includes in his genus Zehneria. 
Garcin’s plant, however, and a nearly allied ‘species, Bryonia fimbristi- 
pula, Fenzl, will form, at least, a distinct section, agreeing with Zeh- 
neria in the disposition of the male and female flowers, the straight 
anther-cells, and the general habit, but differing in the presence of a 
peculiar and conspicuous bract, and in the ovary having only two cells, 
which each mature a seed, an undivided style, and an obscurely bila- 
mellate stigma. However, the only materials I have for comparison 
are spécimens of Zehneria Mysorensis (Wight in Ilust. vol. ii. p. 30), 
and the figure in Wight’s ‘ Icones,” t. 758. 
 ZEHNERIA, $ Bractearia.— Pracíea Jlorifera ampla, plerumque cor- 
data, ciliata. Flores monoici, Corolla rotata. Genitalia exserta. 
