Cucumis. — Citrullus. 937 
oblong, compressed, smooth, brownish, without thickened margin or 
depressed disk. — Flow. March to April. 
D. a. sept. D. a. mer. Not rare in deep sandy places. 
Local name: henedlai. 
Throughout the Tropics. 
1302. (3.) Cucumis Melo L. Spec. Plant. I (1753), p. 1435. — 
Boiss. Flor. Or. I, p. 759. — DC. Prodrom. UI, p. 317. — Aschers.- 
Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., p.77. — Cogniaux in DC. Monogr. Phanerog. 
II, p.545. — Pale green. Stems short, slender, angular, scabrid 
with short, straight and curved prickles. Leaves 1—3 cm long, 
coriaceous, reniform-cordate or ovate, palmately 3—5-lobed, lobes 
rounded, obtuse, irregularly toothed and waved, scabrid on both 
surfaces with white papillae. Male fiowers: Small. Anthers ciliate, 
connective produced into a serrate oblong appendage. Female 
flowers: Peduncle short. Ovary clothed with silky appressed hairs. 
Fruit globose, sweet, edible, 1,5 cm in diameter, softly hairy, greenish- 
yellow. Seeds 4 mm long, elliptic-oblong, smooth, pale brown, 
without thickened margins or depressed disk. — Flow. February 
to March. 
M. ma. M.p. N.d. N.f. N.v. D.a. sept. Cultivated everywhere 
and often subspontaneous. 
Local name: qawin; shemam; mahanawy; du meyry. 
Also known from Tropical Africa. 
var. Chate (L.) Naud. ex. Boiss. Flor. Or. IT (1872), p. 759. — 
Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., p. 77. — Sickenberg. Contrib. Flor. 
WEHe., p. 243. — Stems more fleshy and robust; fruits elongate- 
fusiform. — Flow. February to March. 
M. ma. N. p. N. d. N. f. N. v. N. v. mer. D. a. sept. Frequently 
cultivated and often naturalized. 
Local name: ?aggtr; ’adjir; ’abd-el-lawry; qatta faqqiis. 
Also known from the Tropics. 
533. (4.) Citrullus Schrad. 
Flowers all solitary; monoecious. Male flower: Calyx-tube campa- 
nulate; lobes 5. Corolla campanulate, 5-lobed to below the middle, 
lobes obtuse. Filaments 3, very short, free, inserted within the tube; 
anthers slightly cohering, one 1-celled, two 2-celled; cells linear, 
flexous, bordering the broad connective which is not produced beyond 
the cells. Rudiment of ovary gland-like. Female flower: Staminodes 
ligulate or setaceous. Ovary ovoid or globose; style short, stigma 
