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33. CUCUBBITACE.E. 
lobed, indistinctly and remotely repand-toothed ; tendrils mostly 
bifid; fl. white stellate ; ov. thiclily villous; fr. finally smooth, 
hourglass-, pear- or club-shaped perfectly even, flesh pale or 
whitish. — DC. iii. 299. Cucurbita Lagenaria L. Lour. Fl. Coch. 
ii. 592 ; Desf. ii. 357 ; Brot. i. 311 ; Spr. iii. 45. — Herb. ann. 
Mad. cult. reg. 1, 2, c. Grown chiefly in or about Funchal, 
and only here and there occasionally elsewhere; the fr. from 
its bitter taste, except whilst young, being less employed for 
food than for making water-jugs or bottles, for which purpose, 
when the flesh and seeds have been scooped out, the hard thin 
woody rind renders it available. These vessels soon, however, 
crack and become useless, especially when large and formed 
from the full-grown fr. The smaller flasks from the smaller- 
fruited var. /3, such as are often worn suspended round the neck 
by travellers, &c., are more durable. Fl. Sum., Aut. ; fr. Sept., 
Oct. 
a. Gourda Ser. in DC.l. c. (Caba 9 a grande) ; fr. large 1-2 ft. long, 
unequally hourglass-shaped. — A large climbing musk-scented 
pi. spreading extensively on trellises or climbing tr. to a con- 
siderable height, 30 ft. or more, with thickly matted branches 
and pale greyish foliage. Branches thin and slender pale gr. or 
whitish. L. greyish or hoary immacidate not large 3-5 in. in 
diam. openly cordate and often broader than long, repand-an- 
gular or sinuate rather than lobed, fringed with minute remote 
abrupt or subulate teeth, and with a pair of pits or hollow glands 
beneath at their base in the axil of the nerves at the top of the 
petiole. Fl. axillary mostly solitary rarely 2 or 3 together, 
about 2 in. in diam., wide-opening like a star; pet. about an in. 
long w. reticulated with gr. veins. Male fl. ; cal. -tube 7 or 
8 lines long, rather more funnel- than bell-shaped, many-nerved 
or striated, thickly tomentose, its lobes 4 or 5 lines long erect 
linear-subulate thickisk tomentose, their tips often withered. 
Cor. without tube, its segm. divided down to the edge of cal.- 
cup and petal-like, each strongly 5-nerved downwards, oblong- 
lanceolate, about an in. long and 3 or 4 lines broad, thickly pu- 
bescent on both sides. Fil. 3 very short and quite smooth, 
distinct below, uniting at top into the large thick oblong trun- 
cate anther-column, which is 4 lines long or twice the length 
of the fil. and nearly 3 lines thick. Fkm. fl. ; cal.-tube re- 
duced to a narrow ring or short neck at the top of the ov. ; sop. 
distinct remote erect 3 or 4 lines long, much shorter than m 
male fl., subulate pubescent; pet. 5 oblong-lanceolate, distinct 
down to base of sep. or top of ov., 6-7-nerved or ribbed, about 
an in. long and 3 or 4 lines broad ; throat of cor. simple with- 
out crown or ring, but with 3 distinct erect barren fil. Ov. 
unequally 2-ventricose, densely tomentose. Styles perfectly 
united into a single very short thin smooth column shortly 5- 
or 4-brauched at top. Stigmas mostly 5, sometimes 4, smooth 
