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720 MONOECTA SYNGENESIA. Cucumis. 
Beng. Makhal. 
~ Common on the sandy lands of Coromandel. 
ilies * 
 2,C. Melo. Willd. iv. 613. 
Angles of the leaves rounded, Fruit roundish, torulose, 
smooth, 
Hind, Pers, and Beng. Khurbooj. 
Found in a cultivated state only. 
3. C. sativus. Willd. iv. 615. 
Leaves straight between the angles. Fruit linear-oblong, 
scabrous, 
Mullen belleri. Rheed. Mal. viii, t. 6. 
Hind, Keera. 
Beng. Susa. 
‘Pers. Khyar. 
This and some of its varieties are found cultivated in most 
parts of Asia. 
4. C. Seaibridica. R. 
Leaves round-cordate, sometimes five-angled, scollop-tooth- 
ed; male flowers fascicled; the female solitary. Fruit 
aneotl, cylindric, from four to eight pounds weight, eee 
spontaneously, 
_ Beng. and Hind, Foont or Tooti. 
Teling. Pedda dosray. 
_ This species I have only found in a cultivated state. In 
_ the Tanjore country, and the southern parts of the Carnatic, 
- it is chiefly cultivated during the cold season. The plant is 
in all respects like that of the common cucumber, aaept 
that it is less scabrous, and larger. 
MALE FLOWERS axillary, peduncled, crowded. FEMALE 
FLOWERS solitary, peduncled, Fruit very smooth, oblong, 
generally tapering a little towards the ends with elevation or 
depression ; from twelve to twenty-four inches long, and 
from three to six in diameter, when ripe bursting slowly into” 
various portions, Seeds as in C, sativus. 
