Momordica.'] LXV. CUCURBITACE^E. (C. B. Clarke.) 619 



one 2-fid one 3-fid so each with one anther-cell ; filaments inserted near the top 

 of the calyx-tube, anthers completely exsert. Female peduncle ^-2 in., 1 -flowered, 

 ebracteate. Fruit f by scarcely in. Seeds -\ in., few, shortly obovoid, smooth, 

 shining. , 



10. CUCUMXS, Linn. 



Climbing herbs, hispid or scabrous ; tendrils simple. Leaves petioled, pal- 

 mately 3-7-lobed or 5-angled or entire, dentate or serrate. Flowers yellow, 

 monoecious, males clustered in the axils, females solitary, all shortly peduncled. 

 MALE : calyx-tube top-shaped or campanulate, lobes 5. Stamens 3 ; anthers 

 free, one 1-celled, two 2-celled, cells conduplicate or much flexuose, connective 

 produced in a crest. FEMALE : calyx and corolla as in the male ; ovary ovoid, 

 style short, with three obtuse stigmas ; ovules very many, horizontal ; placentas 

 3. Fruit fleshy, iudehiscent, large or small, spherical or elongate, smooth or 

 tuberculate. * Seeds very many, oblong, compressed,- mostly smooth. DISTKIB. 

 Species 25, of which lialf are African, a few in the tropical regions of Asia, 

 Australia and America, and several widely cultivated of doubtful origin. 



1. C. trig 1 onus, Roxb. FL Ind. ii. 722; leaves and petioles scabrid not 

 softly hairy, petioles |-f in., flowers small, ovary hairy sometimes densely 

 white woolly or silky, fruit about 1 in. ultimately glabrous ellipsoid or ob- 

 ovoid round or obscurely trigonous. W. 8f A. Prodr. 342 ; Wight Ic. t. 497 ; 

 Wight III. t, 105; Boiss. FL Orient, ii. 758; Dafe. # Gibs. Bomb. FL 103; 

 Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 4, xi. 30. C. turbinatus, Eoxb. FL Ind. iii. 723 ; 

 W. $ A. Prodr. iii. 342 ; Miq. FL Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 671. C. maderaspatanus, 



Roxb. I.e. 723; Wall. Cat. 6734. C. Melo var. agrestis, Naud. I.e. 73. C. 

 pubescens, Wall. Cat. 6729 ; W. 8f A. Prodr. 342 ; Royle III. t. 47 ; Wight Ic. 

 t. 496 ; Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. FL 103, perhaps not of Willd. and others. C. 

 pseudo-colocynthis, Royle III. t. 47. C. eriocarpus, Boiss. Diagn. ii. 59. 

 Bryonia callosa,' Herb. Rottler ; Wall. Cat. 6710. 



Throughout INDIA. DISTRIB, Malaya, North Australia, Afghanistan, Persia. 



Root perennial, by which character alone it can be distinguished from C. Melo 

 according to Naudin, but the examples seen and collected in India are almost inva- 

 riably less than one year old. Stem in the typical examples scabrid ; tendrils short, 

 Leaves 1-2 in. diam., orbicular subpentangular, in the typical plant deeply palmate- 

 lobed, lobes very scabrid and often narrow ; in the more flaccid C. pubescens the hairs 

 more scattered, the leaves entire, 5-angled 5-lobed ; petiole -1^ in. Peduncles of 

 males and females -1 in. Fruit sometimes with a few scattered hairs, often with 

 10 stripes. The plants marked by Indian botanists as C. pubescens are reduced to 

 C. trigonus by Naudin in the Kew Herbarium. Kurz (in 3"ourn.As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 

 103) separates C. trigonus with solitary peduncles from C. pubescens with clustered 

 peduncles and makes the latter a variety of C. Melo, Linn. C. pubescens of Thwaites 

 Enum. (C. P. 3534) has remarkably acute lobes to the leaves and resembles C. 

 Hardwickii, but there is no note of the fruit. 



2. C. prophetarum, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. iii. 301 ; leaves and petioles 

 scabrid not softly downy, flowers small, petals \ in., ovary very tuberculate, 

 fruit about 1 in. more or "less tuberculate ellipsoid. Wall. Cat. 6733 ; W. $ A. 

 Prodr. iii. 342 ; Boiss. FL Orient, ii. 758; Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 4, xi. 14. 



SCINDE ; Stocks. DISTRIB. Beloochistan, Arabia, Tropical Africa to Guinea. 



Stem scabrid; tendrils short. Leaves 1-1^ in., reniform, subtriangular, much 

 lobed ; petiole -1 in. Female peduncle less than % in., stout. Fruit green, with 

 paler vertical stripes. 



