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CUCURBITA 



CUDRANIA 



of the pumpkins and squashes, see De Candolle, Origin 

 of Cultivated Plants; Gray and Trumbull, Amer. Journ. 

 Sci. 25:372; Sturtevant, Amer. Nat. 1890:727; Witt- 

 mack, Ber. der Deutschen Bot. Gesell. 6:378 (1888). 



triangular, grayish pubescent, the margin shallowly 

 apiculate-crenate : fl. nearly as large as in C. Pepo and 

 similar in shape, the pistillate on a peduncle 2-3 in. 

 long: fr. size and shape of an orange, smooth, green and 

 yellow splashed, not edible. Sandy arid wastes, Neb. 

 and Colo, to Texas and Mex. and westward to Calif. 

 R.H. 1855:61; 1857, p. 54. In its native haunts, the 

 root is tuberous, 4-7 in. diam. and penetrating the 

 earth 4-6 ft. Roots 

 at the joints. The 

 plant has a fetid 

 odor. Sold by 

 seedsmen as a 

 gourd, but the fr. 

 does not often ripen 

 in the northern 

 states. Useful on 

 arbors and small 

 trees, when coarse 

 vines are wanted. 



1136. Stem of Cucurbita moschata. 

 Large Cheese pumpkin 



1134. Cucurbita Pepo var. ovifera. 



Var. condensa, Bailey. BUSH 

 PUMPKINS. SCALLOP and SUMMER 

 CROOKNECK SQUASHES. Plant 

 compact, little or not at all run- 

 ning. Of horticultural origin. 

 Var. ovifera, Bailey (C. ovifera, Linn.). GOURD. Fig. 

 1134. Plant slender, running: Ivs. smaller than in C. 

 Pepo, usually very prominently lobed: fr. small, hard 

 and inedible, egg-shaped, globular, pear-shaped, oblate, 

 often striped. R.H. 1894:429. Sold in many vars. by 

 seedsmen, under the names of C. Pepo vars. pyrifor- 

 mis, depressa, annulata, etc. See Gourd. 



moschata, Duchesne (C. melonse- 

 formis, Carr.). CUSHAW. CHINA, 

 CANADA CROOKNECK and WIN- 

 TER CROOKNECK 

 SQUASHES. Figs. 

 1135-37. Annual: 

 long-running, less 

 prickly and some- 

 times soft-hairy: 

 Ivs. more rounded 

 than those of C. 

 Pepo, but lobed, 

 often grayish: fl. 

 with a widening 

 tube, and large, erect lobes; calyx-lobes large, often 

 If .-like; peduncle becoming deeply ridged and much 

 enlarged next the fr. Possibly of E. Asian origin. 



BB. Lvs. not lobed (except sometimes on young shoots): 



stalks of frs. not prominently ridged. 

 maxima, Duchesne. SQUASH. Figs. 1138-41. Annual: 

 long-running, the sts. nearly cylindrical, little prickly 

 and often hairy: Ivs. orbicular or kidney-shaped, com- 

 monly not lobed, the basal sinus wide or narrow, 

 the margin shallowly apiculate-sinuate: corolla-tube 

 nearly the same diam. at top and bottom (Figs. 1139, 

 1140), the corolla-lobes large and soft, and wide-spread- 

 ing or drooping : peduncle at maturity soft and spongy, 

 not ridged nor prominently enlarged next the fr. : fr. very 

 various, but not light yellow nor warty nor crookneck- 

 shaped, usually late-ripening, the flesh orange and 

 not stringy. Nativity undetermined. Var. sylvestris, 

 Naudin. A form found wild in the Himalayan region, 

 with fr. as large as a man's head. 



AA. Plant with perennial root. 



foetidissima, Kunth (C. perennis, Gray. Cucumis 

 perennis, James). CALABAZILLA. Fig. 1142. Perennial: 

 long-running, scarcely prickly: Ivs. large, cordate- 



ficifolia, Bouche 

 (C. melanosperma, 

 A. Br.). St. very 

 long, stout, becoming somewhat woody: Ivs. pale 

 green, often marbled, in outline ovate or suborbicular, 

 cordate at base, roundly 5-lobed and the sinus rounded : 

 calyx-tube short and campanulate: fr. large (often 1 

 ft. long), fleshy, round-ovoid, white-striped, the flesh 

 white; seeds ovate, black. E. Asia, but widely cult, 

 in warm countries for its ornamental watermelon-like 

 frs. A var. mexicana, Hort. (C. mexicdna, Spreng.), 

 is mentioned, with seeds twice the size of those of the 

 type, and said to grow wild in the neighborhood of 

 Mazatlan, Mex. 



C. Andreana, Naudin. Allied to C. moschata: sts. long and root- 

 ing at the nodes: Ivs. large, marbled with white: fls. of the form of 

 those of C. maxima but much smaller: fr. obovoid, 8 in. long, 

 marked with white and yellow. Uruguay. R.H. 1896, pp. 542-3. 



C. calif arnica , Torr. 

 Canes cent: Ivs. 

 thick, 2 in. across, 

 5-lobed, the lobes 

 triangular and mu- 

 cronate: ten drila 

 parted to the base: 

 fls. 1 in. or more 

 long on pedicels 

 ^-lin.long. Calif.; 



imperfectly known. C. digitata, Gray. Perennial, the root fleshy: 

 sts. slender and long, usually rooting: tendrils short and weak, 

 3-5-cleft: Ivs. scabrous, 3-5-palmately narrow-lobed: fls. 2-3 in. 

 long on slender pedicels 1-4 in. long: fr. subglobose, yellow, 2-4 

 in. diam. Calif, to New Mex. C. palmata, Wats. MOCK ORANGE. 

 Canescent: Ivs. cordate, thick, 2 or 3 in. across, palmately 5-cleft 

 to middle with narrow toothed lobes: fls. 3 in. long on stout 

 peduncles: fr. globose, 3 in. diam. S. Calif. L H B 



CUDRANIA (derivation unknown). Mordcese,. Woody 



subjects cultivated for their foliage and as hedge plants. 



Deciduous trees or shrubs, often thorny, with alter- 



1137. Fruit of Cucurbita moschata Tonasu, a Japanese variety. 



