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principal but other intermediate ribs in the deep grooves be- 
tween them, and irregularly multangular and not merely 5-lobed 
at its insertion, but with angles nearly as numerous as the 
grooves between the ribs of the fr. Fr. oblong subclavate about 
twice as long as broad, 12-18 in. long and (3 or 8-12 or 14 in. 
in diam., smooth even (not warted) shining, entirely without 
bloom, slightly 10-angular, strongly and abruptly 10-ribbed, 
especially round the footstalk, where the ribs become very dis- 
tinct regular narrow prominent and cord-like, 5 being alter- 
nately more abruptly so than the rest ; colour an olive-gr. more 
or less mottled with bright golden-y., the ribs often entirely y., 
and sometimes the golden-y. prevails altogether over the gr. 
Flesh very pale yellowish salmon-col. A large hollow space 
in the middle. Seeds w. elliptic-oblong narrow very distinctly 
bordered and minutely rugulose, 10 or 11 lines long, 4 or 5 
broad. 
Though frequently cult., this sort is held in much lower esti- 
mation than the former, from which it is distinguished imme- 
diately by the funnel- or cup-shaped form and sharp lobes of 
the unspotted 1. and by the coarse stiff prickly habit of the 
whole pi. The fr. is indeed of far inferior quality both in fla- 
vour and consistence, being at once more fibrous and insipid : 
nor does it usually attain so large a size, nor can it be pre- 
served nearly so long as the Abobora preta. 
Naudin in his valuable memoir on Cucurbita above quoted, divides 
this sp. by the fr. into the following artificial groups or varr. : 
each being again subdivided into subvarr. a, b, c, &c. 
1. Les Courgerons ; fr. middle-sized (8-12 in. in diam.) spherical 
depressed at the poles or with the axis shorter than the diam. 
2. Les Citrouillcs ; fr. large or middle-sized (28-10 in. long) ovoid 
obovoid or elliptic, the axis not much exceeding twice the 
diam. 
3. Les Giraumom ; fr. large or middlo-sized elongate, the axis dis- 
tinctly exceeding twice the diam. 
4. Les Patissons (a vaguely defined polymorphous group) ; fr. small 
or at most middlo-sized, depressed or spherical. St. short 
upright. 
5. 'Ll Or an gin or Courge orangine ( = Cuc . aurantia Willd. and 
perhaps entitled to rank as a sp.) ; fr. small sphorical. L. 
small indistinctly and obtusely lobed. 
0. Les Barbarincn (an ill-defined arbitrary group) ; fr. small vari- 
able in shape, &c., inedible. L. small very distinctly lobed. 
7. Les Colocruinelles and Cougourdettes (scarcely separable from G. 
and = Cue. ovifera L., pyxidaris Duch., &c.) ; fr. small variable 
