50 THE CUCURBITACEJE OF TROPICAL POLYNESIA. 
(Cuzent), Sandwich (Seemann /), and Vitian Islands (Seemann D), but 
introduced by Europeans.. 
11. Cucurbita: maxima, Duch: in Lam. Dict. ii. p. 151; De Cand. 
Prodr. iii. p. 316.—Cultivated in the Sandwich Islands (Seemann /), 
from time immemorial. 
The shells of this gourd are converted, by the Sandwich Islanders, 
into vessels (ipu), out of which they eat their “ pos,” i.e. fermented 
corms of Colocasia antiquorum, var. esculenta, as stated in my Narra- 
tive of the Voy. of H.M.S. Herald, ii. p. 86. 
12. Cucurbita Pepo, Linn. Spec. 1435.—Cultivated in Tahiti, where, 
according to Solander, it was introduced. by Captain Wallis in 1767; 
also grown in Viti (Seemann /), where it is of recent introduction. 
13. Cucurbita pruriens, Sol. ms. in Forst. Prodr. n. 554, sine 
descrip. et in Parkinson's Drawings of Tahitian Plants, t. 109... Pilis 
rigidiusculis pruritum momentaneum excitentibus hispida, caule angu- 
lato, foliis. profunde . cordatis sublobato-5-angulatis sinuato-dentatis, 
cirrhis 2-fidis, pedunculis axillaribus solitariis, calycis laciniis oblongo- 
lanceolatis reflexis, fructibus globosis, junioribus farinosis pilosis.— 
Society Islands (Banks and Solander ! in Mus. Brit.). 
_ “ Annua. |. Caules longissimi, angulati, hispidi. . Folia alterna, petio- 
lata, magna, latiora (sepe spithamam lata) quam longiora, profunde 
cordata, sinubus latis subrotundatis. sublobato-angulata, angulis acutis, 
denticulata; denticulis minutis teretiuseulis, molliuscula, pilosa; pilis 
supra longioribus adspersis, 5-nervia, venosa.  Glandule nulle, Pe- 
tioli plerumque foliis longiores, hispidissimi, . Cirrhi 2-fidi, longi, in- 
ferne: hispidi. Pedunculi. axillares, 1-flori, hispidissimi, masculi. ple- 
rumque petiolis longiores, feminei ex eadem axilla, breves unciales, raro 
sesquiunciales. Flores magni, lutei. Calyx hirsutus, laciniis oblongo- 
„lanceolatis, semiuncialibus, reflexis. .— Filamenta 3... Anthere, valde 
contortuplieata.  Germen oblongum, hirsutissimum. Pomum glo- 
bosum, cortice duro sublignoso tectum, farina alba facile detergenda 
dense irroratum, pilisque rigidiusculis pallidis sesquilinearibus undique 
adspersum, diametro 2- vel raro. 3-unciali, dum penitus maturum. Po- 
mum. leve, evadit absque farina pilisve. | Semina magnitudine seminum 
Cucumis sative, sed margine tumido cincta. | Pili in tota planta pellu- 
cidi, rigidiusculi, quasi artieulati, subulati, pruritum momentaneum 
excitantes.—Hab. In Tahiti, Huahine, ete.’’—Sol, Prim, Fl. Ins. Pacif- 
p. 336, ined. ee 
