﻿PLATE DXLVIII. 

 CUCUMIS DUD AIM. 



Sweet-scented Melon. 



CLASS XXI. ORDER VIII. 

 MONCECIA MONADELPHIA. Chives and Pointals separate. One Brotherhood. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Male flowers. 

 r 5-toothed. Blossom 5-parted. Fi- 



Female Jlowers. 

 Empalement 5-toothed. Blossom 3-parted. 

 Pointal 3 -cleft. 



Feeminei Jlores. 

 Calyx 5-dentatus. Corolla 5 -partita. Pistil- 

 lum 3-fidum. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 

 Cucumjs folioram angulis rotundatis, dentatis, li Melon with leaves angular, rounded, tc 

 ^.dttrfra^qteko, aurantio, varie- andhispid: fruit spherical, of a gold , 



|| variegated, and very sweet-scented. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1 . A blossom spread open. 



2. A chive magnified. 



3. Empalement, seed-bud, and pofotal. 



4. A horizontal section of the fruit. 



5. A female flower spread open. 



of Melon, although no new introduction to the English gardens, is but rarely 

 as collection for the beauty and fragrance of its fruit ; 



2 Sur a Tdr e aun Pe tl- W fl COnt 'u Ue ir " * If is h0 ™ er onl X to te 



I -said to have been first introduced^ 



•; Of P: 



,' M()rocCo to ^ter Collinson, F. R. S. It is also culth 



' ---— 6n ,., fi g . 6 . its 



^K-ive been bestowed by Linnaeus, from the fisi 



•-•,"".: ". yjl '""""'^e, wun wmcn Jacob's ne^eniu »n 



bet plant with perennial n 



:.r to the East on purpose to illustrate 



■1 Dudaim ;— Which is the right one, let critics i. 



i Abdelavi. which Linn.t". 



urns, and might partly haw 



Indeed the claim of our plant to /Eft 



3 change a name that has been applied for more than half a 



- collection of A. B. Lambert, esq. 



