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ened and 2-lobed. Peponida fleshy. Seed ovate, compressed, with a tumid 
margin.—F lowers yellow. 
1096. (1) C. maxima (Duch.:) leaves cordate, rugose, harshly and densely 
pubescent on the under side: petioles hispid: flowers campanulate, broad at 
the base: segments of the calyx often dilated at the apex into an obovate- 
oblong toothed foliaceous limb: divisions of the corolla recurved: fruit large, 
roundish, glabrous, torulose.— Lam. enc. meth. 2. p. 149, 151; Ser. in DC. 
prod. 3. p. 316; Wall.? L. n. 6720; Wight! cat. n. 1140.—C. Melopepo, 
Roxb. fl. Ind. 3. p. 719 ; Spr.? syst. 3. p. 46.—Rheed. Mal. 8. t. 2 press 
That this is the plant of Rheede there is no doubt, but it is singular that, 
although his figure be excellent, no botanist, except Roxburgh, refers to it. 
Can this be C. Melopepo of Linneus. We have no means of ascertaining to 
what C. Melopepo ? Russ. in Wall. L. n. 6725, ought to be referred: it pro- 
bably is a variety of C. Pepo. From the want of good figures scarcely one 
botanist knows what species of this genus is intended by another. 
1097. (2) C. Pepo (Linn.:) leaves cordate, obtuse, somewhat 5-lobed, 
toothed, hirsute : flowers obconical-campanulate, tapering towards the base: 
divisions of the corolla straight and erect: fruit roundish or oblong, smooth. 
DC. prod. 3. p. 317 ; Spr. syst. 3. p. 46; Wall. L. n. 6722.—C. polymorpha 
"ri oblonga, Duch. in Lam. enc. meth. 2. p. 155.— Moris. hist. 1. t. 5. f. 4, 
6. 
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Probably, as suggested by Duchesne, all the species which have the flow- 
ers obconical or tapering at the base with a straight limb to the corolla, ought 
to be referred here, whatever be the size or appearance of the fruit. 
, 1098. (3) C.? Citrullus (Linn.:) leaves 3-5-partite, rough on the under 
side, the segments sinuate-pinnatifid, obtuse: corolla rotate: fruit somewhat 
globose, stellately spotted.—sSpr. syst. 8. p. 46; Roab. fl. Ind. 3. p. 719. ; 
Wall.! L. n. 6717 ; Wight! cat. n. 1141.—Cucumis Citrullus, Ser. in DC. 
en 3. p. 301.— Rumph. Amb. 5. t. 146. f. 1; Moris. hist. 1. t. 6. f. 2 ; Pluk. 
, AE 
Although we leave this, with Linneeus and most botanists, in Cucurbita, we 
ave considerable doubts of the propriety of so doing: its habit, texture of 
the leaves, shape of the corolla, nature of the fruit and its rind, are much at 
variance with the others; but we can scarcely agree to remove it to Cucumis, 
as has been done by Seringe, although in more than one point it bears a con- 
siderable affinity to C. Colocynthis. 
ORDER LXVIIL—PAPAYACE/E. gardh. 
Flowers unisexual. Calyx minute, 5-toothed. Corolla monopeta- 
lous, inserted into the base of the calyx, in the male tubular and 5- 
lobed ; in the female divided nearly to the base into five segments. 
Stamens 10, inserted on the throat of the corolla: anthers introrse, 2- 
celled, bursting longitudinally ; those alternate with the lobes of the 
corolla on short filaments, those opposite to the lobes sessile. Ovarium 
free, l-celled : ovules indefinite: stigmas sessile, 5-lobed, lacerated. 
Placentas 5, parietal. Fruit succulent, indehiscent, l-celled. Seeds 
indefinite, parietal, enveloped in a loose mucous coat : testa brittle, 
Pitted. Embryo in the axis of a fleshy albumen : radicle slender, turn- 
ed towards the hilum: cotyledons flat.— Trees without branches. 
ves alternate, lobed, on long slender petioles. 
