940 Cueurbitaceae. 
longer than the leaf, bract towards its apex, 1-flowered, green, or- 
bicular-cordate or reniform, almost entire. Calyx-lobes thin, ovate, 
acuminate. Corolla irregular, yellow or white, centre black, 1 to 
2 cm in diameter. Anther-cells flexuous; connective broad. Female 
flower: Peduncle 1 cm long; bract 0 or basal. Calyx-lobes narrower. 
Ovary fusiform, beaked, warted. Fruit broadly ovoid, narrowed into 
the peduncle, beaked, smooth, red, fleshy, 2—6 cm long; seeds many, 
pale brown, 1 cm long, broadly oblong, flattened; edges broad, tuber- 
cular, grooved, teeth crustaceous. — Flow. March to April. 
N. d. Cultivated in the most gardens and often naturalized. 
Local name: beylasan. 
Also known from Tropical Africa. 
535. (6.) Cucurbita Linn. 
Monoecious. Flowers all solitary. Male: Calyx-tube campanu- 
late, lobes simple or foliaceous. Corolla campanulate, 5-lobed to 
or below the middle; lobes recurved at the apex. Filaments 3, free, 
inserted at the base of the calyx; anthers connate, one 1-celled, 
two 2-celled, cells elongate, conduplicate. Rudiment of ovary 0. 
Female flower: Staminodes 3. Ovary oblong; style short, stigmas 3, 
2-lobed; ovules numerous, on 3 placentas. Fruit fleshy. Seeds 
many, ovate or oblong, flattened, margined or not. — Annual or 
perennial-rooted tropical herbs; branches usually prostrate and rooting. 
Leaves lobed, cordate at the base. ‘Tendrils 2-multifid. Flowers 
large, yellow. Fruit large. 
The gourds and pumpkins are commonly cultivated, and very variable 
and difficult to distinguish by dry specimens. — A large genus known from 
Tropical and temperate region of the New and Old World. 
A. Leaves not deeply lobed; petioles scarcely prickly . 1. C. maxima, 
B. Leaves deeply lobed; petioles prickly. . .... . 2. C. Pepo. 
1306. (1.) Cucurbita maxima Duchesne in Lam. Eneyelop. I 
(1786), p. 151. — DU. Prodrom. III, p. 316. — Aschers.-Schweinf. 
fil. Flor. d’Eg., p. 77. — Cogniaux in DC. Monogr. Phan. III, p. 544. 
Naud. in Ann. Science. Natur., Ser. 1V Vol. VI, p. 17. — Annual. Stems 
subterete. Leaves large, reniform, 5-lobed, lobes rounded, sinus 
shallow or 0; hairs of petiole equal, rough, not pungent. Flowering 
peduncles terete. Calyx-tube obconic, not contracted under the 
campanulate corolla; teeth linear filiform or undeveloped. Fruiting 
peduncle stout, corky, striate, not grooved. Fruit with scarcely 
fibrous pulp. Seeds white. — Flow. March to April. 
