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Number varying from 150—250. Hven a small fruit, one inch in 
diameter all round, was found by me to contain as many as 120 seeds, 
Tusta,—Coriaceous. 
ALBUMEN.—None. 
Eupryo.—Straight. 
RapicLe.—Next to hilum. 
CoryLepons.—Foliaceous, palmate-nerved. 
REMARKS. 
The synonyms of this plant have been variously given by 
various Botanists. What principle they have followed it is difficult 
to understand. In describing the Tribe Cucurbitee of the Natural 
Order Cucurbitee—a tribe to which Wight and Arnott have consigned 
the species we are now describing, viz., Cucumis trigonus, they very 
rightly observe (vde their Prodromus Flora Ind., Vol. L, p. 841), 
that the difficulties attendant upon the description of the species from 
dried specimens are insurmountable. They admit, however, and very 
rightly too, that they consider it ‘more prudent to follow Roxburgh 
as closely as possible, as his opportunities of examining both seeds and 
stamens must have been most ample,” as they really were, for his 
descriptions appear asa general rule drawn up from fresh specimens— 
a circumstance which must have given him greater facilities for 
noticing the minuter details of the species he describes. The following 
are the various synonyms of C. trigonus :— 
_ C. madraspatanus Roxb. (Hooker’s Fl. Br. Ind., Vol. IL, p. 619). 
(Wight and Arnott’s Prod. Flor. Ind., Vol. I, p. 342). 
C. turbinatus, Roxb. (Hooker op. cit.) 
C. melo, var. agrestis, Naud. (Hook. op. cit.) 
C. pubescens., Willd. (Hook. op. cit.) 
C. pseudo-colocynth, Royle. (Hook. op. cit.) 
C. eriocarpus, Boiss. et Noé (Naudin Ann. des. Sc. Nat., 4 Series, 
Vol. XI, pp. 1-87) ; (Hook. op. cit.) 
Bryonia cullosa, Herb Rottler (Hook. op. cit.) 
C. pyriformis, Roxb, (Naudin op. cit.) 
C, villosus, Boiss, et Nog, (Naudin op. cit.) 
