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Til. p. 316; Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 4, VI. p. 29, tab. 2 B, 

 et 3, XII. p. 84; Cogn. in DC. Monogr. Phanerog. III. p. 545. 

 —Pompjon, pumpion, pumpkin, pompon, pompoen, pompa, tzbtkov 

 {pepon). 



var. melonseformis (Carr.) Makino. 



Cucurbita melonasformis Carr, in Rev. Hortic. (1880) p. 

 137, 431. 



Fruit depressed and flattened, concave at both ends, with 

 irregular and longitudinal many projecting ribs, which are ver- 

 rucous or smoothish, often about twice as broad as long, at first 

 of a dark green, when ripe yellowish orange ; pedicel obtusely 

 pentagonal. 



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

 za-no-tonasu, Satsuma, Nangwa. 



Nom. Chin. "^JR 



Hab. Japan, widely cultivated. 



In Tokyo and other localities this is called Tonasu or Ka- 

 bocha erroneously. 



var. To on as Makino. 



Fruit pyriform, more or less contracted below the middle 

 often somewhat concave at the end, at first green, when 

 mature yellowish orange, smooth or verrucous ; pedicel obtusely 

 pentagonal. 



Nom. Jap. To-nasu, T6-nasubi, Kabocha, Kabocha-bobura, 

 Nankin, Nankin-bbbura, Hyuga-uri. 



Nom. Chin. #^/E. 



Hab. Japan, cultivated. 



This form is common in Kioto and its vicinities, pro v. Yama- 

 shiro, and it is also cultivated in the province of Tosa. 



Cucurbita moschata Duch. is also cultivated in Japan, under 

 the name of Kin-togwa; C. maxima Duch. was introduced 

 rather recently and is called Ponkin incorrectly. 



Oxalis Acetosella Linn. Sp. PI. p. 433 ; Thunb. Fl. Jap. 

 p. 187 ; Franch. et Sav. Enum. PI. Jap. I. p. 69, et II. p. 308. 

 Nom. Jap. Ko-miyamakatabami Cnov.). 



