l'S2 THE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE. [Voi. xxvr. No. see. 



coloured towards the apex, both edges and back very light 

 reddish-purple longitudinally, purplish in the connected portion 

 'with the ovary ; nectariferous petal subpellucid and pale. 

 Stamens pale-3'ellow, connective also so ; pollen whitish. 

 Style white and scarcely yellowish; stigma subfulvous. Ovary 

 pale. Fruit (mature) baccate, straight or hardly arcuate, 

 cylindrico-fusiform, 3-5-gonous, cuneately short-attenuated 

 below, shortly' stipitate, shortly attenuated towards the top 

 which is truncate, smooth, glabrous, light green and sub- 

 glaucous ; young ones obovato-cylindrical, attenuated towards 

 the base, angulate, pale-greenish, glaucous, 5|-9 cm. long, If— 

 3 cm. across. Seeds numerous, subangulato-globose, black, 

 muricate, 5mm. in diameter; funicle short and stout. 



Nom. Jap. Ito-bashb, Ryukya-hasho. 



Hab. Amami-Oshima {K. Nagail); Prov. Satsuma : Kago- 

 shima, cult. (T. Makinol Sept. 1909); Prov. Osumi: Isl. Yaku- 

 shima (T. Makwol Sept. 1909). 



So-called 'Bash6-fu\ a sort of cloth, meaning a Musa Cloth, 

 is made of the refined fibres of the young petioles. The 

 accompanied photograph is from the plant cultivated in Yama- 

 gawa, prov. Satsuma, Aug. 1910. 



Cucurbita moschata Duchesne, ex Poir. in Diet. Sc. Nat. 

 XI. (1818), p. 234; Sen in DC. Prodr. III. p. 317; Naud. in 

 Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 4, VI. p. 41, tab. 2, B. et XII. p. 84; Cogn. 

 in DC. Monogr. Phanerog. III. p. 546. 



var. meloneeformis (Carr.) Makino. 



Cucurbita melons formis Carr. in Rev. Hortic. (1880), pp. 137, 

 431; Nichols. 111. Diet. Gard. II. p. 87. 



Cucurbita Pepo var. melonseformis Makino in Bot. Mag., 

 Tokyo, XXII. (1908), p. 170. 



Nom. Jap. Bobura, Bobuna, Bobura, Bofura, Bofura, Kiku- 

 za-no-tonasu, Satsuma, Nangwa. 



Nom. Chin. "^/IV 



Hab. Japan, widely cultivated. 



Commonly this is called by the erroneous names of T6-nasu 



