CuCUmis, MONOECIA SYNGENESfA. 719 



pules axillary, solitary. Male flowers axillary, solitary, 

 ped uncled, yellow, pretty large. CalyXy its segments obtuse- 

 ly pinnatifid. Female flowers like the male, axillary, so- 

 litary, ped uncled. Calyx as in the male. Fruit sub-cylin- 

 dric, without the least elevation or depression of its surface, 

 remarkably obtuse at both ends, when young- exceedingly 

 hairy, by the time it is ripe the hair is gone, and it is then of 

 a whitish bloom colour, about twelve or eighteen inches long, 

 and from eight to ten in diameter. Seeds white, with tumid 

 margins, somewhat two pointed. 



The young unripe pomes are universally eaten by the na- 

 tives in their stews, and curries. 



3. C. melopepo. Willd. iv. GIO. 



Leaves angular-lobed, dentate, hairy ; divisio7is of the 

 calyx petioled. Fruit roundish, smooth, torulose. 

 Schakeri-schora. Rheed. Mai. viii. t. 2. 

 Swphi/ra-koomra of the Bengalees. 

 Cultivated like the former two all over India, 



4. C. Citrullus. 

 Leaves many-parted. 



Anguria Indica. Rumph. Amb, v. t. 1 4G. 

 Hind. Turbooz or T?«'mooj. 



Extensively cultivated in all the southern parts of Asia, 

 and its islands. 



CUCUMIS. Schreh. gen. N. 1479. 

 Male calyx five-toothed; coro/ five-parted. Filaments 

 three. Female calyx and corol as in the male. Seeds sharp. 



1. C. Colocynthis. Willd. iv. 61. 



Leaves many-cleft. Friiit globular, smooth. 



Pers. Chebooz or Khirboo-lekh. 



Telim/. Sheti-putsa. 



