Citrullus.~\ LXV. CUCURBITACE^;. (C. B. Clarke.) 621 



2. C. vulg-aris, Schrad. in Linncea 1848, 412 ; leaves deeply divided or 

 but moderately lobed glabrous or somewhat hairy hardly scabrid, fruit often 

 10 in. diam. sometimes much smaller. Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 4, xi. 100; 

 Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 102; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 103. 0. 

 fistulosus, Stocks in Hook. Keiv Journ. Sot. iii. t. 3. Cucumis Citrullus, DC. 

 Prodr. iii. 301. Cucurbita Citrullus, Linn. ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 319 ; Wall. Cat. 

 6717; W. $ A. Prodr. 351. 



Throughout INDIA, cultivated. DISTBIB. ' In all warm countries of the world, cul- 

 tivated. 



Said to be annual while C. Colocynthis is perennial ; but the distinction between 

 the cultivated form of C. Colocynthis and the divided-leaved forms of the water-melon 

 is very small. The water-melon. has either sweet or bitter fruit: when the latter, 

 it is Citrullus amarus of authors. C. fistidosus, Stocks, has thick stems, leaves 

 sparingly lobed, and is plentifully supplied with long somewhat hispid hairs. The 

 Water-Melon.* 



12. CEPHAXiANDRA, Schrader. 



Climbing herbs, scarcely hairy ; tendrils simple. Leaves petioled, 5-angular or 

 5-lobed, toothed. Flowers dioecious, moderately large, all solitary and white in 

 the Indian species, ebracteate. MALE : calyx- tube campanulate,' short, limb 5- 

 lobed ; corolla campanulate, 5-lobed about half-way down ; stamens 3 ; anthers 

 exsert, connate, one 1-celled, two 2-celled, cells conduplicate. FEMALE : calyx 

 and corolla as in the male ; ovary oblong, style long with 3 bifid stigmas ; ovules 

 many, horizontal ; placentas 3, vertical. Fruit fleshy, indehiscent, cylindric, 

 smooth. Seeds many, ovoid, compressed, margined. DISTEIB. Species 12; 

 all African, one extending to India and Malaya. 



1. C. indie a, Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 5, v. 16; leaves 5-angular 

 occasionally 5-lobed, fruit 1-2 by | 1 in. Kurz in. Journ. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 

 103. Momordica monadelpha, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 708. Bryonia grandis, Linn, 

 f. SuppU 126 ; Wall. Cat. 6700, except D, I, K, L. B. palmata, Wall. Cat. 

 '6711 A, B, C. Coccinia indica, W. $ A. Prodr. 347 ; Wight III. 1. 105 ; Dene, 

 in Jacq. Voy. Sot. t. 72 ; Hook. Ic. PL 1. 138 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 673 ; 

 Dalz. % Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 103. C. Schimperi, Naud. L c. ser. 4, xii. 16. C. 

 Wightiana, Roem. Synops. ii. 93 ; Miq. 1. c. 674. RJieede Hort. Mai. viii. t. 14. 



Throughout INDIA, common. DISTRIB. Malaya, Africa. 



Leaves 2-4 in. diam., 5-angular, papillose, seabrid ; petiole 1 in. MALE : peduncle 

 1 in., jointed below the flower ; calyx-lobes linear-oblong ; corolla nearly 1 in., lobes 

 long- triangular. Female peduncle about \ in. Ovary smooth. Fruit bright scarlet. 



VAR. palmata, "W". & A. Prodr. 348 ; leaves deeply lobed segments sometimes nar- 

 row and sinuate. B. alceaefolia. Herb. Bottler. Principally in the Deccan Peninsula. 

 Hook.f. in Oliv. FL Trop. Afr. ii. 551 keeps C. quinqueloba (Schrad. in Eckl. $ Zeyh. 

 Enum. 280) distinct from this var., but it is not easy to do so. Whether this plant 

 is Bryonia grandis, DC. Prodr. iii. 305 with aculeate fruit, or B. Mormoi of the same 

 work, also said to have aculeate fruit, is perhaps now not material. 



13. CUCURBITA, Linn. 



Large climbing herbs, hispid or hairy; tendrils 2-4-fid. Leaves petioled, cor- 

 date, ovate, 5-angular or lobed. Flowers monoecious, all solitary, yellow, very 

 large. MALE : calyx-tube campanulate, lobes 5, linear or foliaceous ; corolla 



