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Peponiferae. — Cucurbitaceae. 



C. indica rolunda Dalech. hist. 616. f. 3. 

 In insulis Antillis etEtiropa. australi culta. © 

 Citrouille melonnee ou musquee, 

 Courge melonnee, Porte-manteau 

 gall., Zucca santa Venctiis, Mantel- 

 sack - Kiirbis et Melonen - Kiirbis 

 germ. (p. p.) 



Flores all)idi. Pepones sphaerici v. de- 

 pressi, v. ovales, v. cylindrici, v. claviformes, 

 y. turbinati, majores et minores, costis magis 

 V. minus elevatis , pulpa moschata a pallidis- 

 sime sulfurea ad aurantiaco-rubram usque va- 

 riante. 



2. Folia scalira, denticulata, basi 

 cordata. 

 1) obtusa, subquinqueloba, 



(1) profundius divisa, pulpa fructus pal- 2. CucurMta Pepo L. Sp.pl. 1435.— 

 lida tenuissima. Willd. 1. c. 609. 8. — Sprg. 1. c. 46. 10. — 



I)C. 1. c. 5. — G.Don 1. c. 6. — W.SiA. 



I. c. 351. 109T. (p. p.) 



, Pepo CitruUus Sageret Ann. sc. nat. VIII. 



(P- P-) 

 C. polymorpha ohlonga Diich. in Enc. meth. 



II. 155. — Sp. 1. c. 199. 



In Oriente, in Eiiropa uhique culta. © 

 Vulgo Giraumons gall., Pumukin, Pom- 

 pion angl. , Pepbnc ital., langer und 

 runder Feldkiirbis, PfehenKurhis 

 germ. 

 a, subrotunda — fr. subrotundis. 

 C. major rotunda Bauh. Pin. 213. 

 aa. flava — fr. 8— 12" diam., cortice 



flavo tenui, carne pulposa lutea. 

 /9/9. alba — cortice albo, carne pul- 



posa. 

 yy. viridis — cortice yiridi, interdum 

 albo - V. flavo-striato reticulatove, 

 carne tenera flava. 

 Sd. nigra. 

 /9. oblonga — fr. oblongis, viridibus v. 

 flavis. 



C. Pepo oblongus Bauh. Pin. 311. — 

 mid. 1. c. 

 1 j-. rotunda — fr. subrotundis depressis, 



flavis V. viridibus. 

 S. V a 1 i s — fr. ovalibus, flavis v. viridilms. 

 Huc quoque pertinent varietates in Gallia 

 praecipue cultae : Giraumons verts fruct. 

 gibbosis maximis utrinque aequalibus ; Gi- 

 raumon noir, fr. inferne attenuatis, cortice 

 laevissimo, pulpa firma. — Giraumon rond, 

 atroviridls maximus. — Giraumons a ban- 

 des, Concombres deMaltc ou deBar- 

 barie, fr. viridi- v. flavo-variegatis ; — Gi- 

 raumons blancs, Concombres dMiiver, 

 fr. minoribus pallide flavis , — Giraumon 

 vcrt tendre, fasciis v. maculis obscuriori- 

 bus V. dilutioribus. 



(2) subangulata, pulpa fructus obscura 3.C. Citrullus (non L.). 

 rudl. Pepo CitruUus Suqeret I. c. 



C. polymorpha oblonga Duch. & Sp. 11. ce. 



(P- P-) 

 C. Pepo DC. Sr G.Don (p. p.) 

 In EuropA australi culta. Q 

 Vulgo Citrouilles gall. 

 a. viridis, Citrouille verte, — cortice te- 



nui nitidlssimo viridi, interdum flave- 



scente. 



se invicera transeuntes fere impossibilis. Recte memorant W. & A. , nullum prorsus 

 auctorem cognovisse, quid alter sub hac vel illa specic indicat;i intellexcrit, iconibus 

 bonis plane deficlentibus. Forsan cl. Metzger (Landwirthschaftl. Pflanzenkunde, 692. 

 sqq.) rite omnes species cultas in unicam (C. Pepo) contraxit, quare ejus enumera- 

 tionem synopticam ad caicem generis inseruimus. 



