Cucurbita. — Bryonia. 941} 
M. ma. M. p. N. d. N. f. N. v. D. a. sept. Often cultivated and 
sometimes naturalized. 
Local name: qara’ stambuly; qara’? malty; generally qara’. 
Also known from other parts of the Saharia region, Middle Asia, 
Tropical Africa (cultivated under various formes); origin unknown. 
1307. (2.) Cucurbita Pepo L. Spec. Plant. I (1753), p. 1435. 
— Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Ee., p.77. — DC. Prodrom. III, 
p- 317. — Cogniaux in DC. Monogr. Phan. III, p. 545. — Boiss. 
Flor. Or. Il, p. 759. — Naud. in Ann. Scienc. Nat., Ser. IV Vol. VI 
p.17. — Annual. Stem creeping, rarely erect, angular and grooved. 
Leaves 5-lobed, with a deep basal sinus, lobes acute, often lobulate; 
petioles and nerves beneath prickly. Peduncles obtusely 5-angled. 
Calyx of the male flower campanulate, constricted beneath the 
corolla, teeth subulate. Fruiting peduncle often woody, angled and 
deeply grooved. Fruit with fibrous flesh. Seeds white. — Flow. 
February to March. 
M.ma. M.p. N.d. N.f. N.v. D.a. sept. Abundantly cultivated 
and often naturalized. 
Local name: qara kisa; qara’ maghreby; generally: kisa. 
The Pumpkin is known from all hot countries. 
536. (7.) Bryonia Linn. 
Calyx in the males, and free part of it in the females, broadly 
campanulate, 5-toothed. Corolla campanulate, deeply 5-lobed. Stamens 
in the males 3; filaments free; anthers two with 2 cells, one with 
1 cell, the cells flexuose. Ovary in the females fusiform, ovoid or 
globular, contracted at the top, with 3 placentas and few horizontal 
ovules; style slender, with 3 reniform or bifid stigmas. Fruit a 
globular or ovoid-conical berry. Seeds few, compressed, or with 
convex faces and a thickened margin enveloped in pulp. — Climbing 
herbs with simple or 2-branched tendrils. Leaves palmately lobed. 
Flowers greenish-yellow, small as well as the fruits, in axillary racemes 
sometimes adduced to clusters. 
The genus, taken in the above extended sense given to it by most 
botanists, although not numerous in species, ranges over the warmer and 
temperate regions both of the New and the Old World. 
1308. Bryonia cretica L. Spec. Plant. I (1753), p. 1439. — 
Boiss. Flor. Or. Il, p. 760. — Sibth. and Smith. Flor. Graec., tab. 940. 
— Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., p.77 no. 444. — Sickenberg. 
Contrib. Flor. d’Eg., p. 243. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Primit. Flor. 
Marmaric.. p.648 no. 123. — Desf. Coroll., tab. 70. — A perennial 
