220 ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE BOTANY OF [ Passifloree. 
Cucumis pubescens. (Wild).—Prod. Flore Penins. Ind. Or. 1. p. 342. C. maderaspatanus. Roxb. 
Fl. Ind. 3. p. 723. Wall. Cat. 6734. partly. v. Tab. 47. fig. 1. | 
This plant, common about Saharunpore, is esteemed by the natives for its fruit, which becomes 
aromatic on ripening, hence (C. aromatica, nob.), but it is too closely allied to be separated from 
C. pubescens, which itself resembles C. turbinatus and C. trigonus, so nearly as only to be distin- 
guished, according to Dr. Roxburgh, by the fruit, “which is about the size of a partridge’s egg, downy, 
maculated, and without any tendency to be three-sided.” (Roxb. Fl. Ind. 3. p. 723). 
C. Hardwickii ; stems slender, climbing, very scabrous with white, frequently, hair-bearing glands, 
leaves cordate-acuminate, somewhat 5-lobed, or 5-angled, angles acute, upper surface very hairy, under 
less so, margins undulately crenate, minutely toothed, male flowers one or two together, female solitary, 
calyx of each very hairy; fruit oval, oblong, rounded at both ends, from 2-3 inches long, and about 
half as broad, marked with narrow white stripes ; flesh very bitter. v. Tab. 47. fig. 3. a. the fruit. 
Hab. Found at the foot of the mountains, and called puharee indrayun, or hill colocynth. In the 
figure of this plant, in the late General Hardwicke’s collection of drawings, vol. 8. Tab. 23, the same 
native name is written, as I myself obtained so many years afterwards. In affixing the name of the ori- 
ginal discoverer to this plant, I pay but a feeble testimony of my respect for the memory of one, who so 
meritoriously spent a long life in the advancement of every branch of the Natural History of India. 
C. pseudo-Colocynthis ; stems slender, prostrate and radicating, very scabrous ; leaves scabrous on 
both sides, with white glandlike hair-bearing tubercles, 5-lobed, lobes as well as the angles rounded, the 
former slightly toothed, the terminal one broader, cuneate, subdivided into three smaller lobules ; male 
flowers generally solitary, as are the female, long peduncled. Calyx, tube oblong hispid, segments 
narrow, linear, and pointed. Fruit oblong and smooth, marked with eight broad stripes; flesh very 
bitter. v. Tab. 47. fig. 2. b. transverse section of fruit. 
Hab. Plains of Northern India, where it is called Indrayun and Bisloombha, it may be distin- 
guished from P. Colocynthis, by its oblong, not round fruit, as well as by the obtuseness of the lobes 
which in that species are acute, and the leaves more divided, as I have ascertained by comparison 
with the Linnean specimen. This is very well represented in the Medical Botany of Messrs. Stephenson 
and Churchill from a plant grown in the Chelsea Garden from seed sent from the Mediterranean region. 
78. PAPAYACEZ. 
This small order contains only the genus Carica, which is confined to the tropical 
parts of S. America; whence C. Papaya, the Papaw-tree, has been introduced into India, 
and is cultivated as a fruit in all the southern parts. The frost in the northern provinces 
is in some years so severe, as in a single night to destroy large trees of this loose- 
textured plant. Botanists have considered the genus Carica allied to both Cucurbi- 
taceé and Urticee. The natives of India have, in addition to the former, seen an affinity 
to the Luphorbiacee in its resemblance to the castor-oil plant, and have given it in the 
northern provinces the expressive name of Urun-khurbooza, or ricinus-like melon. 
The fruit of the Papaya is esteemed by many people in the East; but it is not so 
generally known that its unripe fruit and seeds are vermifuge, and that newly-killed 
meat hung up under its shade, and poultry fed on its leaves and fruit, are said to be 
made tender in a short time. (Hooker Bot. Mag. 2898). 
a4 79. PASSIFLOREZ. 
The different kinds of Passifora, or passion-flower, which form the type of this 
order, are well known for the elegance and splendour of their appearance. They were 
long supposed to be confined to South America and the West-Indies, but the progress 
of discovery has ascertained the existence of species of this genus at Singapore and 
Penang, 
