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There are several varieties under cultivation, with yellowish, 

 white, or red flesh, varying in form from spherical to ovoid, 4 to 8 

 inches in diameter, sometimes more than 10 inches across and 

 20 inches long, averaging upwards of 20 lbs. in weight. A common 

 sort, in all probability the same, which appears to be grown in many 

 hot countries, under the names of "Tsama water melon" — native of 

 the Kalahari desert, round fruit, 4 in. or more in diameter, in quality 

 equal to " pie," " stock," or " citron " melon, found capable of 

 yielding at the rate of 22 tons of fruit per acre, in California, or 

 planted 15 ft. by 15 ft., the general yield per acre may be expected 

 to be about 40,000 lbs. (Kennedy, U.S. Dept. Agric. Div. Agrost. 

 Bull. No. 22, 1900, p. 85); " Goonah "—fruit globular, 4 in. diam. : 

 variegated, dark and bright green longitudinally, turning white or 

 yellowish, sometimes cultivated, Katagum (Dalziel, Herb. Kew) ; 

 fruit size of a green-flesh-melon, intensely bitter, " yields the 

 " egusu " seeds of Dr. Baikie's last voyage," trailing in cultivated 

 ground, Nupe (Barter, Herb. Kew) ; the common " Kalahari Melon " 

 — fruit mottled, yellow and green, ground creeper, Kwebe Hills 

 (3300 ft.), Ngamiland (Lugard, Herb. Kew) ; " Voaketsihetsy "—a 

 globular melon, with white stripes, running from pole to pole, 

 Madagascar (Parker, Herb. Kew), and a plant with a similar fruit 

 has been grown at Old Calabar. Water melons have been grown at 

 Zaria (Parsons, N. Nig. Gaz. 30th April, 1910. p. 101). 



A very important crop in Egypt, sown on large areas both on the 

 river banks and inland. The returns from an acre vary between 

 £20 and £40, and the expenses do not exceed £10 (Brown, Journ. 

 Roy. Hort. Soc. xxxv. 1909, pp. 33, 35). See end of Cucurbitaceae for 

 general details of cultivation. 



Ref.—" On Eguse Oil : A New Vegetable Product from S. Africa," 



Daniell, in Pharm. Journ. [1] xvi. pp. 307-309. " Citrullus 



vulgaris,'" in Field & Garden Crops, N.W. Prov. & Oudh, Duthie 



& Fuller, ii. p. 56. " Citrullus vulgaris,'' in Diet. Econ. Prod. 



India, Watt, ii. 1889, pp. 331-333. Water Melons and Cantaloupes. 



Newman & Clayton, xAlabama, Agric. Exp. Station, Bull. No. 28, 



1891, pp. 1-11. ' k Tsama Water Melon {Citrullus vulgaris 



var.)," Kennedy, U.S. Dept. Agric. Div. of Agrostology, Bull. No. 22, 



1900, pp. 85-86. " Some Selected Melons, 1 ' Jackson, in Agric. 



Gaz. N.S. Wales, xi. 1900, pp. ku^-^2, Plates 9. Growing Water 



Melons in the North, and Classiti cation of Water Melons, Rane, New 

 Hampshire Coll. Agric. Exp. St. Bull. No. 86, 1901, pp. (.9-107, illus- 

 trated. — "Melon d'eau Pasteque," in Pl.Potageres. Vilmorin-Andrieux, 



pp. 426-429 ; English Translation. Robinson, pp. 432-436. fc< Ikpan 



Seeds from S. Nigeria," in Bull. Imp. Inst, v. 1907, pp. 132-134: 



I.e. vi. 1908, pp. 356-357. "Chemical Examination of Water Melori 



Seed," Power & Salway, No. 105, Wellcome Chemical Research 

 Laboratories ; Reprint from Journ. American Chemical Soc. xxxii. 

 March, 1910, pp. 360-374. 



CEPHALANDRA, Schrad. 



Cephalandra indica, Naud. ; Fl. Trop. Afr. II. p. 550. 



III.— Rheede, Hort Mai. viii. t. 14 [Goccinea indica); Cam- 

 bessides, PI. Rar. Jacquemont, t, 72 {Coccinea indica) ; Hook. Ic. 

 PI. t. 138 {Goccinea indica) • Wight, Illust. t, 105* (Coccinea indica), 



Katagum (Dalziel. No. 114, 1908. Herb. Kew): Confluence of 



16583 L 



