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les Citrouilles) Duch. in Lam. Enc. M6th. ii. 152, 155. — Herb, 
ann. Mad. cult. reg. 1, 2, ccc. Gardens and about cottages chiefly 
above 500 ft., rather less universal than C. moschatci and earlier 
in season. — A far inferior sort, larger and coarser in all its parts 
than the preceding, with very large stiff sharply but broadly 
and not deeply lobed 1. 12-18 in. in diam. not set as usual at 
right angles horizontally upon their petioles, but rising ob- 
liquely and more or less uprightly from the top of them into a 
sort of funnel shape, of a uniform full (not speckled lurid) gr., 
more naked and shining or less hispid but much more harshly 
scabrous and prickly-strigose than in the last-named sp. The 
whole pi. is also of an altogether coarser more thickly shortly and 
irregularly branched and leafy habit, with branches leafstalks 
and principal nerves of 1. (especially beneath) pale gr. succulent 
and naked, but sprinkled with stiff sharp pungent conical erect 
distinct short bristles. Male fl. very large, often 4-5 in. in 
diam., orange-y. Cal. -cup or torus bristly moderately deeply 
cup- rather than bell-shaped, a little contracted at top sub- 
ventricose strongly 10-ribbed subpentangular ; sep. thick and 
fleshy-herbaceous to the tip, very long (more than an inch) and 
narrow, acuminato-subulate, sprinkled with short stiff bristles 
from a conical base or tubercle, somewhat spreading or erecto- 
patent. Cor. -cup strongly many-ribbed or nerved, having in 
addition to the 3 very strong gr. central ribs and 2 lateral of 
each segment several other intermediate smaller but sufficiently 
conspicuous nerves, — the whole inside smooth, but the ribs out- 
side minutely pubescent and sprinkled with bristles. Stam. 3, 
their fil. very broad and large downwards nearly smooth or only 
partially and very minutely glandular-puberulous, forming a 
stalk rather shorter than the anther-column which is about 
9 lines long and 3 thick. Fem. fl. rather smaller than the 
male, sessile on the oblong subangular strongly many-ribbed 
subglabrous or only very minutely and inconspicuously pube- 
rulous 3-celled ovary, 10 ribs of which are broader and stronger, 
5 or more of them running continuously down the ped., which 
is very strongly ribbed, with deep grooves between the 5 main 
ribs, and bristly. Cal. -cup very short and quite flat or shal- 
low, fleshy coarsely 10-ribbed bristly, its sep. short 4 lines long 
subulate bristly not withering at the tips, spreading or deflexed. 
Cor. very strongly 30-ribbed or thereabouts, with 5 more pro- 
minent ribs to each segment, the ribs bristly ; the whole inside 
bristly-villous or pubescent ; throat with a prominent erect very 
minutely puberulous stiff fleshy outer crown, thin and sub- 
trilobed or sinuous at the edge, embracing a lower 5-lobed 
thick-edged waxy plicate inner one (abortive stam.) surround- 
ing but distinct from the very thick short smooth 3-cleft style. 
Stigmas 3 very large distinctly 2-lobed velvety or spongy deep 
orange. Fr.-stalk strongly 5-angular and 5-sulcate, with 5 
