. 272 LIX. CUCURBITACEZ. CucurRBITA. 
3. C. AncuriaA. Prickly Cucumber.—St. prostrate, slender, hispid; tendrils 
simple ; vs. palmately and deeply sinuate-lobed, cordate at base ; fr. oval-ovoid 
or subglobose, echinate——@) Native of Jamaica. Cultivated for the green fruit, 
which is about the size of a hen’s egg, and used for pickles. Jl. Aug. 
4. C. Cirrutius. Ser. (Cucurbita. Linn.) Water Melon.—St. prostrate, slen- 
der, hairy; tendri/s branching; lvs. palmately 5-lobed, very glaucous beneath, 
lobes mostly sinuate-pinnatifid, all the segments obtuse; jis. solitary, on hairy 
peduncles, bracted at base; fr. elliptical, smooth, discolored—d) Native of 
Africa and India. Generally cultivated for its large and delicious fruit. Jn.—Aug. 
5. C. CoLocyntuis. Colocynth.—=St. prostrate, subhispid ; lws. cordate-ovate, 
cleft into many obtuse lobes, hairy-canescent beneath; tendrils short; fls. axillary, 
pedunculate; 9 with a globose, hispid calyx tube and campanulate limb, with 
small petals; fr. globose, yellow when ripe, about as large as an orange, and 
intolerably bitter. The extract is the colocynth of the shops, poisonous, but 
medicinal.—F rom Japan. 
6. LAGENARIA. Ser. 
G7. Xayevos,’a flagon or bottle ;. from the form of the fruit. 
Flowers £. Calyx campanulate, 5-toothed; petals 5, obovate. & 
Stamens 5, triadelphous ; anthers very long, contorted. Q Stigmas 
3, thick, 2-lobed, subsessile ; pepo ligneous, I-celled ; seeds ariled, ob- . 
cordate, compressed, margin tumid.— Mostly climbing by tendrils. 
L. vuuearis. Ser. Calabash. Bottle Gourd.—Softly pubescent; st. climbing 
by branching tendrils; /vs. roundish-cordate, abruptly acuminate, denticulate,. 
with 2 glands beneath at base; fs. axillary, solitary, pedunculate; fr. clavate, 
ventricose, at length smooth.—q@) Native within the tropics, often cultivated— 
the hard, woody rind of the fruit being used as ladles, bottles, &c. Flowers 
white Jl. Aug. 
7. CUCURBITA. 
A Latin word, signifying a vessel; from the form of the fruit of some species. 
Flowers §. Corolla campanulate; petals united and coherent with 
the calyx. & Calyx 5-toothed ; stamens 5, triadelphous, anthers syn- 
genecious, straight, parallel. @ Calyx 5-toothed, upper part decidu- 
ous after flowering; stigmas 3, thick, 2-lobed; pepo fleshy or ligne- 
ous, 3—5-celled; seeds thickened at margin, obovate, compressed, 
smooth.—Fs. mostly yellow. 
1. C. Pero. Pumpkin.—Hispid and scabrous; s¢. procumbent; tendrils 
branched ; lvs. (very large) cordate, palmately 5-lobed or angled, denticulate ; 
jis. axillary, § long-pedunculate; fr. very large, roundish or oblong, smooth, 
furrowed and torulose.—@ Native of the Levant. Long cultivated as a useful 
kitchen vegetable or for cattle. Flowers large, yellow. Fruit sometimes 3f 
diam., yellow when mature, yielding sugar abundantly. Jl. 
2: C. MenorEro. Flat Syuash—Hairy ; st. procumbent, with branched ten- 
drils ; lvs. cordate, palmately somewhat 5-lobed, denticulate ; fs. pedunculate ; 
Jr. depressed-orbicular, the margin mostly torulose or tumid, smooth or warty. 
—WNative country unknown. Cultivated for its fruit, a well known kitchen ve- 
getable. There are many varieties in respect to the fruit. 
3, C. verrucésa. Warted Squash. Club Squash. Crook-neck Squash, §c.— 
Hairy, procumbent; lvs. cordate, palmately and deeply 5-lobed, denticulate, 
terminal lobe narrowed at base ; fis. pedunculate, large ; fr. roundish elliptic, or 
clavate, often elongated and incurved at base.—@) Mentioned by Nuttall as long 
cultivated by the Indians west of the Mississippi. Common in our gardens, 
with. numerous well known varieties of the fruit. Jl. 
4. C. ovirEra. Exvg Squash.—Lvs. cordate, angular, 5-lobed, denticulate, 
pubescent ; cad. obovate, with a short neck, limb deciduous after flowering; /r. 
obovate, striped with lines lengthwise—Native of Astrakan. Herbage an® . 
flowers similar to those of C. pepo, but less scabrous. 
