620 LXV. CUCURBITACE;E. (C. B. Clarke.) [Cucumis. 



3. C. AXelo, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. iii. 300; leaves orbicular-reniform 5- 

 angular or lobed lobes neither deep nor acute scabrid on both surfaces and also 

 often with soft hairs, petals in., fruit glabrous or somewhat hairy not spinous 

 nor tuberculate. Roxl. Fl. Ind. iii. 720 ; Wall Cat. 6738 ; W. $ A. Prodr. 

 341 ; Jacq. Monog. du Melon, t. 1-33. C. utilissimus, Roxb. I. c. 721 ; Wall. 

 Cat. 6731; W. $ A. Prodr. 342. C. flexuosus, Linn.; DC. I.e.; W. $ A. 

 Prodr. iii. 342. 0. maculatus, Wittd. ; DC. I. c. 301 ; W. 8> A. Prodr. iii. 342. 

 0. Gurmia and C. Chata, Wall. Cat. 6726? and 6727. 0. cicatrisatus, Stocks 

 in Hook. Kew Journ. Sot. iv, 148. 



Throughout INDIA, cultivated. DISTBIB. Cultivated in most hot countries, and 

 perhaps the cultivated form of C. trigonus. 



Stems scabrous. Leaves 3 in. diam. ; petiole 2 in. Female peduncle sometimes 

 2 in. Fruit spherical ovoid elongate or contorted. The Melon. 



4. C. sativus, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. iii. 300 ; leaves ovate 5-angular or 

 slightly lobed, lobes acute hispidulous on both surfaces and also o/ten with soft 

 hairs, "petals f in., fruit glabrous sometimes tuberculated commonly elongate. 

 Lamk. III. t. 795; Roxb. FL Ind. iii. 720 ; Wall. Cat. 6737 ; W. $ A. Prodr. 

 342 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Sat. i. pt. i. 671 ; Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 4, xi. 27 ; 

 Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 103. 0. muricatus, Wall. Cat. 6735 A. 

 C. Hardwickii, Royle III. t. tf.Rheede Hort. Mai. t. 6. 



Throughout INDIA, cultivated. DISTBIB. In all warm and warm temperate coun- 

 tries, cultivated ; where wild unknown. 



Stems scabrous. Leaves 3-5 in. diam. ; petiole 2-3 in. Female peduncle some- 

 times 2 in. Young ovary muricate with rigid prickles. Fruit commonly cylindric, 

 12 by 1 1 in. The Cucumber. 



VAB" siJcJcimensis, Hook. f. Bot. Mag. t. 6206'; fruit 15 by 6 in. clavate with 5 

 placentas. Concombre du Sikkim, Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 4, xi. 28. Cultivated 

 in Nipal and Sikkim, J. D. H., &c. 



11. CXTRUXiXiUS, Schrad&r. 



Climbing herbs, hispid or scabrous ; tendrils 2-3-fid. Leaves petioled, pal- 

 mately 3-7-lobed, usually deeply with narrow sinuate-pinnatifid segments, but 

 .sometimes little lobed. Flowers monoecious,, all solitary, tolerably large. MALE : 

 calyx-tube campanulate, lobes 5 ; stamens 3, short ; anthers scarcely cohering, 

 one 1- celled, two 2-celled, cells conduplicate, connective not produced 

 FEMALE : calyx and corolla as in the male ; ovary ovoid ; style short, stigmas 3, 

 reniform ; ovules very many, horizontal ; placentas 3. Fruit globose or ellip- 

 soid, smooth, fleshy, indehiscent. Seeds very many, oblong, compressed, smooth. 

 DISTRIB. Species 2, widely cultivated. 



1. C. Colocynthis, Schrad. in Linncea 1838, 414 ; leaves deeply divided 

 harshly scabrid, fruit globose rarely 3 in. diam. intensely bitter. Am. in Hook. 

 Joyrn. Bot. iii. 276 5 Wight Ic. t. 498 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Sat. i. pt. i. 662 ; Naud. 

 in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 4, vol. xii. 99 ; Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. FL 101 ; Boiss. Fl. 

 Orient, ii. 759. Cucumis Colocynthis, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. iii. 302 ; Roxb. FL 

 Ind. iii. 719 ; Wall. Cat. 6732 ; W. $ A. Prodr. iii. 342. 



Throughout INDIA, cultivated and also very often apparently wild. DISTBIB. 

 Western Asia, Arabia, all Africa except the Cape, Spain. 



Whole plant scabrid. Leaves 2 by scarcely 2 in. in the typical wild very scabrous 

 form, larger in the cultivated forms approaching C. vulgaris, ovate, middle segment 

 compound-pinnatifid ; petiole 1 in. Petals | in., obovate, light . yellow. Ovary 

 villous. Fruit smooth, variegated green and white. Seeds -^ in., not margined. 



