620 Lxv. cucuEBiTACEa!. (C.B.Clarke.) [Gueumis, 



3. C. nielo, Lmn.; DC. Jh-odr. iii. 300; leaves orbicular-reniform 5- 

 angular or lobed lobes neither deep nor acute scabrid on both surfaces and also 

 often •with soft hairs, petals f in., fruit glabrous or somewhat hairy not spinous 

 nor tuberculate. Roxh. Fl. Ind. iii. 720 ; WaU. Cat. 6738 ; W. ^ A. ProAr. 

 341 ; Jacq. Monog. du Mdm, t. 1-33. 0. utUiasimus, Moxh. I. c. 721 ; Wall. 

 Cat. 6731 ; W. §■ A. Prodr. 342. 0. flexuosus, lAnn. ; DC. I. c. ; W. Sf A. 

 Prodr. iii. 342. 0. maculatus, Willd. ; DC. I. c. 301 ; W. ^ A. Prodr. iii. 342. 

 0. Gm-miaand C. Chata, Wall. Cat. 6726? and 6727. 0. cicatrisatus,. <Sfocfe 

 in Sook. Kew Jcrwrn. Bot. iv. 148. 



Throughout India, cultivated. — ^Distrie. Cultivated in most hot countries, and 

 perhaps the cultivated form of C. trigonm. 



Stems scabrous. Leaves 3 in. diam. ; petiole 2 in. Female peduncle sometimes 

 2 in. Fruit spherical ovoid elongate or contorted.-^The Melon. 



4. C. satlvus, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. iii. 300 ; leaves ovate 5-angular oi- 

 slightly lobed, lobes acute hispidulous on both surfaces and also often with soft 

 hairs, petals f in., fruit glabrous sometimes tuberculated commonly elongate. 

 Lamk. lU. t. 795; Poxh. Fl. Ind. iii. 720 ; Wall. Cat. 6737 ; W. Sf A. Prodr. 

 342 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 671 ; Navd. in Ann. So. Nat. set. 4, xi. 27 ; 

 Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 103. 0. muricatus. Wall. Cat. 6735 A. 

 C. HardwicMi, Boyle III. t. 47. — Bheede Jlort. Mai. t. 6. 



Throughout India, cnltivated.^-DisTKiB.. In all warm and warm temperate coun- 

 tries, cultivated; where wild unknown. 



Stems scabrous. Leaves 3-5 in. diam. ; petiole 2-3 in. Female peduncle some- 

 times 2 in. Young ovary muricate with rigid prickles. Frait commonly cylindric, 

 12 by 1^ in. — The Cucumher. 



Tab. si&kimensis, Hook. f. Bot. Mag. t. 6206 ; fruit 15 by 6 in. clavate with 6 

 placentas. Concombre du Sikkim, Naud. in Ann. 8c. Nat. ser. 4, xi. 28. Cultivated 

 in Nipal and Sikkim, J. D. H., &c. 



11. CXTXtVX.X.irS, Schroder. 



Climbing herbs, hispid or scabrous ; tendrils 2-3-fid. Leaves petioled, pal- 

 mately 3-7-lobed, usually deeply with narrow sinuate-pinnatifid segments, out 

 sometimes little lobed. Flowers monoecious, all solitary, tolerably large. Maxe : 

 calyx-tube campanulate, lobes 6 ; stamens 3, short ; anthers scarcely cohering, 

 one 1-ceUed, two 2-celled, cells conduplicate, connective not produced 

 Female : calyx and corolla as in the male ; ovary ovoid ; style short, stigmas 3, 

 reniform ; ovules very many, horizontal ; placentas 3. Fruit globose or ellip- 

 soid, smooth, fleshy, indehiscent. Seeds very many, oblong, compressed, smooth. 

 — DiSTKiB. Species 2, widely cultivated. 



1. C. Colocynthis, Schrad. in Linmsa 1838, 414; leaves deeply divided 

 harshly scabrid, fruit globose rarely 3 in. diam. intensely bitter. Am. in Sook. 

 Jmm. Bot. iii. 276 ; Wight Ic. t. 498 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 662 ; Naud. 

 in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 4, vol. xii. 99 ; Dalz. ^ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 101 ; Boiss. Fl. 

 Orient, ii. 759. Oucumis Colocynthis, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. iii. 302 ; Boxb. FL 

 Ind. iii.' 719 ; Wall. Cat. 6732 ; W. ^ A. Prodr. iii. 342. 



Throughout India, cultivated and also very often apparently wild. — ^Distbib. 

 "Western Asia, Arabia, all Africa except the Cape, Spain. 



Whole plant scabrid. Leaves 2^ by scarcely 2 in. in the typical wild very scabrous 

 form, larger in the cultivated forms approaching C. vulgaris, ovate, middle segment 

 compound-pinnatifid ; petiole 1 in. Petals J in., obovate, light yeUow. Ovary 

 villous. Friiit smooth, variegated green and white. Seeds J-^ in., not margined. 



