318 LIV. CUCURBITACE. [ Cucumis. 
2 lines Ser pubescent- -hirsute or densely woolly; lobes short and narrow. 
Corolla about 4 in. diameter, the lobes acute. Female flowers usually rather 
more than twice that size. —Wight, Ie. t. 4 t. 
4. xi. 30; C. pubescens, Hook. in Mitch. Trop. Austr. 110; C. jucundus and 
C. picrocar, P E, ae in bum Phil. Inst. Vict. iii. 46. 
N. Austr er river, Nichol Bay, Gregory's Brpedition i Victoria river, F. 
Mueller ; Port | Ges ben o: Albert river, Henne; in the interior, M*Douall 
Stuart s Erpedition. 
S and Bogan rivers, Bowman ; Fort Cooper, Thoz: 
N. S. Wales. Seite en Balonne rivers, Mitchell ; Darling river to yes s Creek, 
Victorian and other Expediti 
The only a Sie, diference to be gathered from Naudin’s ee between e Am 
gonus, and what he concludes to be the wild Melon (C. Melo, var. agrestis, Naud. in A 
C. aie of Indian botanists, Wight, : t, Ic. t. 496, and probably 
+ i eh 
annua 
no collectors of Australian perennial rhi allude t. Seis of these look v very much like 
Indian specimens of the wild Melon, others hae more the appearance of the Indian C. tri- 
gona, and some are not to be distinguish d from the New Caledonian C. Pancherianus, 
Naud. in Aun. Sc. Nat. Ag: uh xii. Xe t.*8. pose robably all are forms ER of C. Melo. 
myriocarpus, Naud. l. c. xi. 22, with leaves deeply leeë dr rounded ciliate lobes, 
nearly glabrous above, ri rigidly | hispid underneath, & with sm globular beier prickly 
fruits on filiform pedicels, commonly known vul d. s C. is rum, but not the true 
Linnean species of that name, is in F, Mueller 8 collóetion from na banks of " TTorrens 
river iu S. Australia, as an introduced plant 
5. MOMORDICA, Linn. 
Calyx in the males, and free part of it in the females, short, campanulate, 
with 5 Gan: Corolla rotate or broadly Geer de usually divided to the 
calyx into 5 lobes. Stamens in the males 2 or 3; filaments short, free; 
Pe at first coherent, at length free, one or E 2- Sen the others a 
celled, the cells flexuose des thee end any appendage. two 
three ?) connivent scales on the tube of the calyx and corolla at the d 
of the stamens. Ovary in the females fusiform or oblong, with 3 place centas 
m 
fusiform or cylindric, not fibrous, indehiscent or opening more or ess in 3 
valves. Seeds imbedded in pulp, flattened or convex, smooth or variously 
sculptured.—Climbers usually slender. Leaves entire, lobed or 3- to 7 lie 
late. Tendrils simple. Peduncles axillary, Se all 1-flowered, with a broa 
bract under the flower, or the males paniculat 
The genus is dispersed over the t tropical and ER regions of both the New and the 
Old itl Pee abs of the Meo. however, are African. The only Australian one eg 
in Asia an d 
..1. M. Balsamina, Linn. ; Sr. in DC Prod. 21. 211. A slender së? 
climber. Leaves thin and Ke orbicular in their circumscription, mosey 
under 2 in. diameter, palmately and dee eeply 5-lobed, the lobes more OF G 
riabli yey and acutely toothed or lobed. Peduncles all | slender 
