936 Cucurbitaceae. 
A. Fruit echinate spinous or tubercled. 
I. Stem hispid, with long slender brittle hairs 
Grabnistles.:-. ibe cha elncl) Date Ce ol ke 1. C. sativus. 
Il. Stem seabrid, with short white hairs and 
shout’ prickles.) 0:7 2..4:9Gat! «Balto ais 2. C. prophetarum. 
B. Fruit smooth, glabrous or pubescent . ... . 3. C. Melo. 
1300. (1.) Cucumis sativus L. Spec. Plant. J (1753), p. 1437. 
— Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., p. 76. — DC. Prodrom. Il, 
p. 300. — Hooker in Flor. Trop. Afr. Il, p.542. — Cogniaux in DC: 
Monogr. Phanerog. III, p. 498. — Naud. in Ann. Scienc. Natur., Ser. 4 
Vol. XI, p. 27. — Boiss, Fl. Or. II, p. 759. — Annual; usually monoe- 
cious. Stem angular, sparingly branched, and petioles and peduncles 
covered with spreading stiff hairs or bristles. Leaves hispid, mem- 
branous, bright green. shortly palmately 3—-5-lobed, lobes triangular- 
ovate, acute or acuminate. Female flower: Pedunele stout. Ovary 
narrow oblong, muricate with tumid rigid pungent prickles. Fruit 
very variable in length and breadth, fusiform, obscurely 3-gonous, 
yellow-green, glabrous, covered with distant rounded tubercles. — 
Flow. February to April. 
M. ma. M.p. N.d. N.f. N.v. D. a. sept. Cultivated everywhere 
and often subspontaneous. 
Local name: khiyar. 
Common in the Tropics. The native country of the cucumber is unknown. 
1301. (2.) Cucumis prophetarum L. Spec. Plant. I (1753), 
p. 1436. — Boiss. Flor. Or. HI, p. 759. — DC. Prodrom. III, p. 301. 
— Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. @Eg., p.76 no. 441. — Cucumis 
arabicus Del. in Hort. Monspel., p.12. — Naud. in Ann. Science. 
Natur., Ser.4 Vol. XI, p.14. — Cucumis amarus Stocks Plant. exsice. 
— Annual. White, or ashy and scabrid with stiff hairs. Stem much 
branched from the base, geniculate at the nodes, angular, and petioles 
and peduncles clothed with short, white, stout, little bristles. Leaves 
small, 5 mm to 2'/, cm broad, scabrid on both surfaces, subtriangular 
reniform or palmately 3—5-lobed, coriaceous; lobes short or long, 
quite entire or toothed, obtuse or acute; base truncate or more or 
less deeply cordate; petioles short or long, tendrils short. Male 
flower: Calyx and corolla hispid. Connective produced into a linear, 
flat, simple or 2-fid appendage, glandular at the tip. Female flower: 
Peduncles stout, short, covered with short, stout, rigid, pungent 
prickles. Staminodes linear. Stigmas short, 2-lobed. Fruit broadly 
ovoid, 2—2'/, cm long, green with pale vertical bands, covered with 
scattered, soft, slender spines. Seeds small, 4 mm _ long, elliptic- 
