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XXXVIL— CUCURBITACEiE,W.&A. Prod. 1, p 340. 



THE GOURD TRIBE, Lind. Nat. Syst. p 192. 



LAGENARIA, Monad elphia Triandria. From lagena, a bottle, 

 in allusion to the shape of the fruit. 



1. L VuLGAnis, W. and A. 1051 ; Don's syst. 3, p 4 ; Rumph. 

 Arab. 5, t. 144; Roxb. Fl. 3, p 718 ; Rheede Mai. 8, t. 1, 4, and 

 5; Lam. Illustr. t. 795, f. 2. — Bottle Gourd. Native place uncer- 

 tain ; extensively grown, and is of all shapes, and used for many 

 purposes. The fruit is most useful to the natives for toddy 

 vessels, &c. The better variety, which is more tough in the rind, 

 is extensively grown in the mountainous parts of the Deccan for 

 floats used in crossing rivers. Four or five of them are strongly 

 bound together with string or whip-cord, and thus support a man 

 crossing a river with his head burden. 



CtrCUMIS, MoncEcia Monadelphia. From sikuos, a cucumber ; 

 sikueraton, a garden of cucumbers. Is. ch. 1, v. H ; Gaert. t. 88; 

 Lam. t. 795. 



2. C Melo, W. and A. 1052 ; Roxb. Fl. 3, p 720.— Extensively 

 cultivated, especially in the beds of rivers, in the hot season. Its cul- 

 tivation is quite an art, and quantities of human manure (Poudrette) 

 are employed by the Hindoo cultivators in raising this product ; 

 it forms a staff of life to the poorer classes in the hot season. 



3. C Sativus, W. and A. 1054; Roxb. Fl. 3, p 720; Rheede 

 Mai. 8, i. 6 ; Lam. Illustr. t. 795. — "Kakeree," common Cucum- 

 ber ; cultivated to a great extent by the natives. 



4. C Utilissimds, W. and A. 1056 ; Roxb. Fl. 3, p 721.— 

 Field Cucumber, called also " Kakri" ; cultivated much more com- 

 monly than the last. 



5. C MoMORDiCA. — This and the above two are all varieties of 

 one species. 



LUFFA, Tourn., Monoecia Pentandria, Cav. Ic. t. 9. 



6. L Pentandria, P acutangula, "Toorai Gosalee." W. and 

 A. 1064-65; Roxb. FL 3, 712-13; Rheede Mai. 8, t. 7, S; 

 Rumph. Amb. 5, t. 147-49. — These two are also extensively 

 cultivated as an article of diet. 



BENINCASA, Savi, Monoecia Triandria. Named in honour of 

 Benincasi, an Italian Nobleman. 



7. B Cerifera, W. and A. 1 070 ; Roxb. Fl. 3, p 7 1 8.— " Pan- 

 dree Chikee." Fruit subrotund, 12 or 15 inches in diameter; hairy 

 when young, smooth, with a whitish bloom, when ripe ; commonly 

 cultivated in Bombay and the Deccan. 



