504 DICOTYLEDONEÆ. CUCUMIS. 
medio cæteris productiore; sinubus rotundatis; pedunculo femineo 
gracili, brevi; ovario setis densis horrido; fructu ovoideo, aculeis 
densis longis mollibusque vestito, longitudinaliter fasciis alternatim 
fuscis et albis variegato.— Illustr. hortic., 1871, p. 239; Seem. Journ. 
of Bot. 1871, p. 58. 
Caulis gracillimus, ramosissimus, elongatus, angulato-sulcatus, 
breviter aculeatus præcipue ad angulos. Petiolus gracilis, striatus. 
sparse breviterque hirsutus, 5-7 cent. longus. Folia tenuiter membra- 
nacea, 4-5 cent. longa et fere totidem lata, basi leviter emarginata. 
margine denticulata, subtus ad nervos hirsuta. Cirrhi graciles, breves, 
striati, breviter hirsuti. Flores masculi fasciculati ; peduneulus filifor- 
mis, breviter villoso-hirsutus, 1-1 */, cent. longus. Calycis tubus 
anguste campanulatus, brevissime denseque villosus, 4 mill. longus, 
apice 2-3 mill. latus; dentes subulati, erecti, 1 '/,-2 mill. longi. Corolla 
brevissime villosa, 6-7 mill. longa, segmentis ovato-oblongis, apite 
rotundatis. Staminum filamenta gracilia, leviter villosa, ‘/, mill. longa: 
antheræ oblongæ, leviter ciliatze, 2 '/, mill. longze; appendix commet- 
tivi filiformis, apice leviter papillosa, 3/, mill. longa. Flores feminel 
solitarii. Pedunculus fructiferus gracilis, 2-3 cent. longus. Fructus 
5 cent. longus, 3 ‘/, cent. crassus; aculei acuti vel subobtusi, com- 
pressi, 5 mill. longi, 2 mill. lati. Semina pallida, immarginata, oblonga, 
4*/, mill. longa, 2 !/, mill. lata, 1 */, mill. crassa. 
In Africa centrali (herb. Mus. Par.). 
22. €. Africanus (Linn. f. Suppl. p. 423); foliis leete viridibus. 
supra scabris, subtus seaberrimis, profunde 3-5-lobatis, lobis rotun- 
datis vel ovato-oblongis, integris vel lobulatis, apice rotundatis, inter- 
medio longiore, sinubus rotundatis; pedunculo femineo satis robi i 
elongato ; ovario setis crassiuseulis rigidisque horrido ; fructu ovoideo. 
concolore, aculeis brevibus rigidis acutisque armato. — Willd. Spec. 
4, p. 611; Thunb. Prodr. p. 13, Fl. Cap. p. 36; Ser. in DC. Prodr. 
3, p. 301; Schrad. Reliq. in Linnaea, 12, p. 415; Rem. Syn. 
fasc. 2, p. 78; Naud. in Ann. se. nat. ser. 4, v. 11, p. 20; Sond. 1 
Harv. et Sond. F1. Cap., 2, p. 495. — C. Africanus echinatus major. 
vulgo hystrix vegetabilis Herm. Parad. p. 138. — C. arenarius 
Schrad.! Reliq. in Linnaea, 12, p. 416 (non Schum. et Thonn.); Rem. 
Syn. fasc. 2, p. 74. ; 
Caulis satis gracilis, ramosissimus, angulatus, scaber. Petiolus 
satis gracilis, striatus, hirsutus demum scaber, 3-8 cent. longus. Folia 
membranacea, 3-7 cent. longa et fere totidem lata, basi leviter emar” 
