CUCURBITA MOSCHATA. 



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aware, a cultivated crop of these Provinces ; nor is C. maxima (the potiron of the French). 

 A large number of specimens of cultivated cucurbitacese have been received from vari- 

 ous Districts of these Provinces, but only one species of Cucurhita has as yet been detect- 

 ed, viz., C. moschata. 



No satisfactory statistics are available. The following is the area which it is said 

 to have occupied in certain districts during the rainy season of 1881 : — 



Acres. 



Farukhabad, ... ... ... ... ... ... 138 



Cawnpore, ... ... ... ... ... ... 20 



Jbansi, ... ... ... ... ... ... 19 



HirplanaUon of Plate LVIII. 



1. Male flower, ) .• i 



V vertical sections, I „ , . 



2. Female flower, J > all nat. size. 



3. Ovary, transverse section, ' 



Explanation of Plate LX. 



Extremity of flowering branch, 

 Male flower, vertical section, 

 Lower portion of female flower, 

 vertical section. 



> all nat. size. 



Explanation of Plate LIX. 



o rp L- c jut \ reduced to' j. 



3. iransverse section ot ditto J 



Explanation of Plate LXI. 



> reduced to i. 

 > i 



1. Ripe fruit, 



2. Ditto, transverse section 



3. Seed (nat. size). 



The above four plates are from livmg specimens cultivated at Sabaranpur. 



