Cucumis. WONOECIA SYNGENESIA. 723 



scabrous. Flowers small, scarcely half an inch in diameter, 

 yellow ; situation as in the last mentioned species. The spe- 

 cific dift'erence is in the fruit; this is also oval and smooth, 

 but three-sided with the angles round and the surface streak- 

 ed with ten light, and ten deep, well defined streaks of deep- 

 er and lighter yellow; before maturity these are of a deeper 

 and lighter green colour. It is about the size of a pullet's 

 egg. They are not eaten in these parts. 



7. C. turhinaUis. R. 



Leaves palmate, lobes sinuate and bristle-dentate. Fruit 

 turbinate, absolutely three-sided, the size of a pullet's egg. 



Teling. Nalla budinga. 



This species is a native of tlie same places as the last, but 

 differs from it in the plant being small, having much larger 

 flowers, and pyriform maculated fruit ; they are also some- 

 what triangular, and about the same size, the leaves are also 

 more deeply lobed and bristle-toothed. The fruit of this 

 sort is eaten by the natives. 



8. C. madraspatanus. Willd. iv. G15. 



Leaves sub-reniform, somewhat lobatc-toothed. Pomes 

 oval, downy. 



Hind, Bun-gMniMk. 



Teling. Kodee-budiiiga. 



Till I saw Plukenet's figure of C. madraspatanus,, 1 con- 

 sidered this to be the plant he meant, but now I hesitate not 

 to say, that his is Bryonia scabrella ; however 1 have continu- 

 ed Linnoeus's specific name, although at the same time, I am 

 in doubt whether or not this is the plant he so named. It is 

 much like the two last described species, grows in similar 

 places, is about the same size, and in perfection at the same 

 season, the leaves are more like those of the common cucum- 

 ber, the fruit about the size of a partridge's egg, oval, downy, 

 maculated, without any tending to be three-sided. 



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