720 MONOECIA SYNGENESIA. CuCUmiS. 



Bemj. Makhal. 



Common on the sandy lands of Coromandel. 



2. C. jyjelo. Willd. iv. C13. 



Angles of the leaves rounded. Fruit roundish, torulose, 

 smooth. 



Hind. Pers. and Benr/. Kh?*rbooj. 

 Found in a cultivated state only. 



3. C. saiivns. Willd. iv. 615. 



Leaves straight between the angles. Fruit linear-oblong, 

 scabrous. 



Mullen bellcri. Rheed. Mai. viii. t. 6. 



Hind. Keera. 



Beng. Swsa. 



Pers. Khyar. 



This and some of its varieties are found cultivated in most 

 parts of Asia. 



4. C. momordica. R. 



Leaves round-cordate,sonietimes five-angled, scollop-tooth- 

 ed ; male flowers fascicled; the female solitary. Fruit 

 smooth, cylindric, from four to eight pounds weight, bursting 

 spontaneously. 



Beng. and Hind. Foont or Tooti. 



Teling. Pedda dosray. 



This species I have only found in a cultivated state. In 

 the Tanjore country, and the southern parts of the Carnatic, 

 it is chiefly cultivated during the cold season. The plant is 

 in all respects like that of the common cucumber, except 

 that it is less scabrous, and larger. 



Male flowers axillary, peduncled, crowded. Female 

 FLOWERS solitary, peduncled. Fruit very smooth, oblong, 

 generally tapering a little towards the ends with elevation or 

 depression ; from twelve to twenty-four inches long, and 

 from three to six in diameter, when ripe bursting slowly into 

 various portions. Seeds as in C. sativus. 



