Cucumis. MONOECIA SYNGENESIA, 719 
pules axillary, solitary. Mae rtowers axillary, solitary, 
peduncled, yellow, pretty large. Calyx, its segments obtuse- 
ly pinnatifid, FEMALE FLOwERs like the male, axillary, so- 
litary, peduncled. Calya as inthe male. Fruit sub-cylin- 
dric, without the least elevation or depression of its surface, 
remarkably obtuse at both ends, when young exceedingly 
hairy, by the time it is ripe the hair is gone, and it is then of 
a whitish bloom colour, about twelve or eighteen inches long, 
and from eight to ten in diameter. Seeds white, with tumid 
margins, somewhat two pointed. 
The young unripe pomes are universally eaten by the na- 
tives in their stews, and curries. 
3. C. melopepo. Willd. iv. 610. 
Leaves angular-lobed, dentate, hairy ;_ divisions of the 
calyx petioled. #ruit roundish, smooth, torulose. « 
Schakeri-schora. Rheed, Mal. viii. t. 2. 
Suphura-koomra of the Bengalees. 
Cultivated like the former two all over India. 
A.C, Citrullus. 
' Leaves many-parted. 
Anguria Indica. Rumph, Amb, v. t. 146, 
Hind. Turbooz or Turmooj. 
Extensively cultivated in allthe southern parts of yng 
and its islands. 
CUCUMIS. Schreb. gen. N. 1479. 
Male calyx five-toothed; corol five-parted. Filaments. 
three, Female calyx and corol as in the male. Seeds sharp., 
: - c. Colocynthis. Willd. iv. 61. 
Leaves many-cleft. Fruit globular, smooth, 
oa Pers, Chebooz or Khirboo-lekh, 
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