E ann. CUCURBITACER. ET 
: 
TRIBE IL—CUCURBITEXE *. DC. 
| "Tendrils lateral, formed of abortive stipules. Flowers bisexual, diccious, or mo- 
necious. Fruit a peponida or berry. 
IL LAGENARIA. Seringe. 
Flowers monecious. Calyx campanulate : segments subulate or broadish, 
shorter than the tube. Corolla (white): petals obovate, springing from with- 
in the margin of the calyx.—Marz. Stamens 5, triadelphous: anthers very 
flexuose.—Fxw. Style scarcely any. Stigmas 3, thick, 2-lobed, granular. 
Peponida fleshy, indehiscent. Seeds numerous, obovate, compressed, with a 
tumid border 2-lobed at the apex. 
1051. (1) L. vulgaris (Ser.:) softly pubescent; stem climbing: tendrils 
3-4-cleft: leaves cordate, nearly entire or lobed, the lobes obtuse or acute, 
somewhat glaucous, with 2 glands at the base: flowers fascicled : petals 
very patent : connectivum of the anthers covered with oblong acute papillee : 
fruit pubescent, at length nearly glabrous and very smooth.—Ser. in DC. 
prod. 3. p. 299; Wight! cat. n. 1098.— Cucurbita Lagenaria, Linn. sp. p. 1434; 
Lam. ill. t. 795. f. 25. Spr. syst. 3. p. 45; Roxb. fi. Ind. 3. p. 718; Wall. L. 
n. 6719.— Moris. hist. 1. t. 5. f. 1-8 ; Rheed. Mal. 8. t. 1, 4, 5; Rumph. Amb. 
5. t. 144. 
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III. CUCUMIS. Linn.; Gertn. fr. 1. t. 88 ; Lam. ill. t. 795. 
Flowers moneecious or bisexual. Calyx tubular-campanulate. Segments 
subulate, scarcely the length of the tube. Petals (yellow) scarcely united 
together and with the calyx.—Marr. Stamens 5, triadelphous.—Fzw. Stig- 
mas 3 (or occasionally 4), thick, bipartite. Peponida fleshy, indehiscent or 
(rarely) bursting irregularly. Seeds ovate, compressed, not margined, acute 
at the hilum.—Flowers axillary, peduncled, solitary or several together. 
' Besides the following, Dr Wallich notices in his List (n. 6727) a species from the 
Missionary Garden named doubtfully C. cheta, which we have not seen. . 
1052. (1) C. Melo (Linn.:) stems prostrate, scabrous : leaves rounded, 
angled : male flowers with the calyx-tube slightly ventricose at the base and 
dilated at the apex: stamens included ; anthers shorter than the connecti- 
yum: bisexual flowers with the anthers as in the male: stigmas 3—4, shortly 
2-lobed: fruit ovate or somewhat globose, 8-12-furrowed— DC. prod. 3. 
P. 300; Spr. syst. 3. p. 46; Roxb. fl. Ind. 3. p. 720; Wall. L. n. 6788; 
Wight ! cat. n. 1099.— Moris. hist. 1. t. 6. f. 4. Ren 
1053. (2) C. Momordica (Roxb.:) stem scabrous : leaves roundish-cordate, 
terrai ree or iiic euer repand-toothed : flowers dT 
duneled, males fascicled, female solitary: petals slightly acute: iem ey. m 
dric-oblong, straight, 4 times longer than thick, bursting spontaneously, ( 
inches long).— Roab. fl. Ind. 3. p. 720 ; Wight ! eat. n. — a 
tus, Willd.? sp. 4. p. 613; DC.? prod. 3. p. 301; Spr.? syst. 3. p. 46; Wall.* 
L. n. 6735. —Momordica sativa, Roxb. in E. I. C. mus. tab. 456. hus 
We have not at present before us the ripe fruit, our description of waa 
taken from Roxburgh : our only doubt of this being also C. RO Wild uld., 
anses from Roxburgh not mentioning the asperities from which enow 
* Ev | aware of the almost insurmountable difficulties at- 
tendant on the qe dn E. Gown del seca ANMOUgh Dur, Own materials on I 
hole be tolerabl complete, yet with the additional assistance of drawings, we frequently could not de- 
termine whether s alicrationson the Linnean distribution of the species ought to be received or re- 
Jected : we have cons: it, however, more prudent to follow Roxburgh as closely as possible, as his 
PPortunities of examining both seeds and stamens must have been most ample. 
