]]. Cucumis.] 13. CUCURBITACEJE. [12. Cucurbit a. 



Var. a. L. sub-entire or lobed and fruit spherical. It only differs 

 from a feral state of C. Melo in the leaves being under 2\'' diam. and the 

 absence of any soft hairs. Fl. r. s. 



2. C. Melo, L. The Melon and 3. C. sativus, L. The Cucumber, 

 are both cultivated and sometimes feral. C. Melo is distinguished from 

 C sativms by the smooth, not muricate fruit, and by the ieaves having 

 both soft hairs a r d harsh ones, while C. sativus has the hairs nearly 

 uniform on the leaves which are not, or only slightly, scabrid, and the 

 fruit is muricate. The ovary and young fruit is often densely hairy iv 

 both. 



A variety of Cucumis with angular leaves 4£'' diam.,.fls. f-1" diam., 

 frt. sparsely muricate with scattered harsh bulbous-based hairs, and the 

 leaves with many rather stiff hairs between the hispid nerves, may be an 

 escape from cultivation of C. sativns, L. It is apparently wild in the 

 Porahat jungles, between Nakti and Teb a. FL, Fr. Bept.-Oct. 



12. Cucurbita, L. 



Coarse hispid or hairy herbs witn 2-4-fid. tendrils. Fls, 



very large yellow solitary monoecious. Calyx-tube campanu- 



late, sepals often leaf-like. Corolla gamopetalous. St. 



inserted low down, fil. 3 short, anthers connate in a column 



with conduplicate cells. Style short. Stigmas large neshy, 



3-5 often longitudinally lobed. Large epigynous cushio n- 



shaped disc 5-lobed. 



The ovary is filled with tissue and the ovules are on large swollen 

 parietal placentae which meet iu the axis and are recurved. 



The following diagnosis of the three commonly culti- 

 vated species is from Pram's " Bengal Plants." 



1. C. PepO, D.G. Karkaru, K. The Pumpkin. 



Leaf-stalks beset beneath with rigid, pungent hairs ; calyx lobes 

 narrow-subulate ; leaves deeply 5-lobed, with broad sinuses between the 

 lobes. 



2. C- maxima, Duchesne. The Gourd. 



jaf -stalks with hairs uniform, not rigid nor pt 

 iw-subulate ; leaves not deeply lobed, sinuses na 



3. C- moschata, Duchesne. The Musk Melon. 

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Leaf-stalks with hairs uniform, not rigid nor pungent. Calyx-lobes 

 narrow-subulate ; leaves not deeply lobed, sinuses narrow. 



Hairs of leaf -stalks as in 2. Calyx-lobes broad-spathulate, leafy ; 

 leaves very variously lobed. 



