808 
MONCECIA MONADELPHIA. 
Class XXI. 
13550 
13551 
2019. 
13552 
13553 
13554 
2020. 
13555 
13556 
13557 
13558 
13559 
2021. 
13560 
135G1 
13562 
13563 
13564 
13565 
13566 
13567 
articulata IV. jointed 2 I o 
cupressoides JV. African ^ i | o 
TRICHOSAN'THES. W. Snake Gourd. 
Anguina W. 
cucumerina JV. 
tuberosa IV. 
MOMOR'DICA. 
Balsamina W. 
Charantia W. 
operculata JV. 
LufFa W. 
ovifera IV. 
lagenaria JV. 
aurantia JV. 
Pepo JV. 
verruc6sa TV. 
subverrucosa JV. 
Melopepo JV. 
CitruUus JV. 
common Jk _QJ or 
Cucumber-like JQJ or 
tuberous J_ or 
JV. MOMORDICA, 
Balsam Apple _§ £}} or 
hairy _^ Xll or 
rough-fruited _^ or 
Egyptian XU or 
Elaterium JV. Squirting Cucumber-^ A or 
CUCUR'BITA. JV. Gourd. 
egg-shaped O clt 
bottle O clt 
Orange-fruited Jc clt 
Pumpkin ^ O clt 
warted O clt 
pimpled ^ O clt 
squash O clt 
Water Melon ^ J^J clt 
15 f.my Ap 
10 ... Ap 
Cucurbiiacece. 
4 my.jn W 
4 jn.jl Y 
6 jn.jl Y 
CucurbitacecB. 
jn.jl 
jn.jl 
jn.s 
jl.au 
jn.jl 
Y 
Y 
Y 
L.Y 
Y 
Cucurbitacece. 
3 jl.s 
10 jl.s 
3 jn.au 
16 jn.au 
12 jn.jl 
12 jn.jl 
3 my.s 
6 my.s 
• 2022. CU'CUMIS. JV. 
13568 Colocynthis JV. 
13569 prophetarum JV. 
13570 Anguria JV. 
13.571 africana H-^. 
Cucumber. 
bitter 
globe 
round prickly 
African 
Ol or 
Jc .QJ or 
XiJ or 
13552 
Cucurbitacece. 
6 my.au Y 
2 jn.s Y 
2 jl.au Y 
2 jl.au Y 
Barbary 1815. 
C. G. H. 1799. 
Sp. 3—12. 
China 1755. 
E. Indies 1804. 
W. Indies 1810. 
Sp. 5—17. 
India 1568. 
E. Indies 1710. 
W. Indies 1731. 
E. Indies 1739. 
S. Europe 1548. 
Sp. 8—13. 
Astracan 
India 1.597. 
1802. 
Levant 1570. 
1658. 
.'.*.'.'.",' 1597. 
S. Europe 1597. 
Sp. 13—19. 
C. G. H. 1551. 
Levant 1777. 
Jamaica 1692. 
C. G. H. 
13553 
S CO Bot. cab.844 
S p.l 
S CO Bot. mag. 722 
S CO Rhee.mal.8. t.l5 
D CO Plum. ic. t. 24 
S CO 
S CO Bot. mag. 24.'55 
S CO Comm. rar. t. £2 
S CO Rum.am.5.t.l47 
D r.m Bot. mag. 1914 
S CO 
S CO 
S CO 
S CO 
S CO 
S CO 
S CO 
S CO 
Rum.am.5. t.l44 
Moris, s. l.t.8.f.4 
Rum.am.5. t.l4o 
S r.m 
S CO Jac. vind. 1. 1. 9 
S CO Mill. ic. 1. t. 3.3 
S CO Herm. par. 1. 134 
13558 13559 
History, Use, Propagation, Culture, 
popular evergreen, which, though it seldom rises above the height of a shrub here, yet in Upper Canada attains 
the height of a timber tree, and the wood is considered more durable than any other. The trunk is sawn up 
into planks and boards for houses and boat-building, and the branches used for posts and fencing. The smaller 
branches and spray form besoms, and tiie leaves, made into a salve, are used by the Indians to cure the 
rheumatism. In England, tlie timber has been chiefly employed by the turner and cabinet-maker. In its 
native country the Arbor-vitiK succeeds best in soils where the roots have abundance of moisture. It grows 
tallest in swamps and marshes ; in very dry places it never comes to any degree of perfection. The first tree 
of this species sent to Europe, was planted in the royal garden of Fontainbleau, in the reign of Francis the 
first. T. orientalis is a shrub resembling the other in general appearance. Both these species are readily 
increased by seeds, cuttings, or layers. 
2019. Trichosanthes. From hair, and atw^o?, a flower. The limb of the flov/er is divided into ten parts, 
of which the live outer are reversed and acute, the five interior ciliated. T. Anguina is a popular annual, with 
the haliitof the common cucumber. The flowers are cut into many small threads, and the fruit is taper, and 
nearly a foot long. T. cucumerina has smooth fruit of a red or orange color, the size of a pear. In the 
popular medicine of Malabar, the seeds are used for disorders of the stomach and bowels. Culture as for the 
common gourd. 
2020. Momordica. From mordeo, momordi, to chew; its seeds have an irregular rugose surface, and 
the appearance of having been chewed. M. elaterium has a large fleshy perennial root, somewhat like that 
of Bryony. The stems are thick, rough, trailing, branching, with rough leaves on long footstalks. The fruit 
is an inch and a half in length, swelling like a cucumber, of a grey color like the leaves, and covered with short 
prickles. When fully ripe, it quits the peduncles, and casts out the seed and juice with great force and to a 
considerable distance through the hole in the base, where the footstalk is inserted. For medicinal use, the 
fruit is gathered in September, just before it is ripe ; and the clear juice which runs from it and that obtained 
by the expression of the fruit are inspissated, and form the elaterium of the shops. This fruit is a very violent 
cathartic. It was much employed by the ancients, who regarded every part of the plant as purgative; but Dr. 
Clutterbuck has proved that this is an error. [Thomson's Lond. Disp. 388.) 
M. balsamina has a fleshy ovate fruit, remotely tubercled in longitudmal rows, smooth in the other parts, 
red when ripe, bursting irregularly, and dispersing the seeds with a spring. This fruit in Syria is famous for 
curing wounds. They cut it open when unripe, and infuse it in sweet oil, exposed to the sun for some days, 
until the oil is become red. It may then be applied to a fresh wound dropped on cotton. M. operculata has a 
green fruit, the top of which falls off when it is ripe like a lid ; within it has no pulp, but is dry, and filled 
with netted fil:)res, very much interwoven. 
2021. Cucurbita. A Latin word signifying a vessel. It is said to be derived from the Celtic cuce, a hollow 
thing. C. lagenaria has a fruit shaped like a bottle, with a large roundish belly, and a neck very smooth ; 
when ripe of a pale yellow color, some near six feet long and eighteen inches round ; the rind becoming hard, 
and being dried contains water ; seeds quadrangular oblong, cut off and emarginate at top, three-cornered 
and beaked at bottom; edge keeled with a double raised line, smoothish, of a pale bay color. The Arabians 
call the bottle gourd Charrah. The poor people eat it boiled, with vinegar, or fill the shell with rice and meat, 
and thus make a kind of pudding of it. It grows in all parts of Egypt and in Arabia, wherever the moun- 
tains are covered with rich soil. In Jamaica, the shells are generally used for water cups, and frequently 
serve for bottles among the negroes and poorer sort of white people in the country. A decoction of the leaves 
