HORTUS MALABARICUS. 



VOL. VIII. 



Tab. 1. Lagenaria vulgaris of D C. W fy A. Cucurbita Lagenaria 



of Lin. Roxb. 



Poiret has quoted this figure for a variety of C. Lagenaria, which is cultivated in 

 the Isle of France, and Roxburgh says, ' The shape of the fruit varies much, 

 from that of a flask to round and cylindric.' 



2. Cucurbita maxima. W.fy A. C. melopepo. Roxb. (not Lin.) 



This plant of Rheede's, as remarked both by Commeline and Plukenet, is the 

 Cucurbita asperifoKa non fisso of Bauhin' a Historia (i. e., C. maxima of 

 Duchesne), and for C. Melopepo Linnaeus has quoted the C. clypeiforntis sive 

 Siciliana of Bauhin, which is quite a different species. 



3. Benincasa cerifera. DC. Cucurbita Pepo. Roxb. (not Lin.) 



C. Camolenga. Ham. MS. 



Roxburgh mistook this plant for the Linnean C. Pepo; and, according to 

 Plukenet, it is the Pepo oblongus of Bauhin, which Linnaeus has quoted for a 

 variety of that species. 



' > Lagenaria vulgaris Varieties. W. 8f A. 



These figures are quoted with queries by Dennstedt for the Linnean Cttcumis 

 Dudaim and Cucurbita ovifera; and in Sir W. Jones's copy at the Athenaeum, 

 tab. iv. is marked C. colycinthus. By Lamarck they were both considered to 

 be unknown species of Cucumis. See the foregoing note on tab. i. 



6. Cucumis sativus of Lin. Roxb. 



Lamarck was probably misled by a remark of Commeline 's, to consider this 

 (as well as tab. 4 and 5) to be an unknown species of Cucumis. 



7. Luffa acutangula. Roxb. L. foetida. Willd. Cucumis 



acutangulus of Lin. Burman. 



This figure is quoted by several authors for L. foetida, which, though retained as 

 a separate species by De Candolle, appears to me to be nothing more at most 

 than a variety of L. acutangula, and there is much less difference between them 

 than may be expected to occur in a plant so very generally cultivated in India. 



8. Luffa Cattu-picinna. D C. L. pentandra. Roxb. 



Quoted with a query by Dennstedt for Momordica Luffa, and Linnaeus appears 

 to have confounded more than one species under that name. It is quoted for 

 his L. pentandra by Roxburgh, who says that he only found it in a cultivated 

 state, and it may be queried whether L, pentandra of Don's Dictionary is the 

 ame species. 



