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33. CTJ CTJRBITACEiE . 
Tribe II. Sicyodea. 
ttt3. Sechiuii Br. 
f ttl« S. EDIJLE (Sw.). Chuchu or Chocho. Pepinella ou Cahiota. 
St. roundish and with stalks of 1. tendrils and rac. smooth 
ribbed or striated ; 1. cordate-angular flaccid nearly smooth or 
naked and entire, sharply lobed whilst young, finety scabrous 
or hispidulous above, sprinkled with a few soft hairs beneath ; 
tendrils 4-fid ; fem. ji. mostly solitary sometimes binate ; ov. 
obovate or clavate mealy-pubescent ; fr. the size of the fist, com- 
pressedly turbinate or shortly obovato-clavate, prickly-strigose. 
— Spr. iii. 47 ; DC. iii. 313. Sic y os edulis Sw., Jacq., Lam. — 
Herb. per. Mad. cult. reg. 1, 2, c. In and about Funchal, at 
the Mount, Porto da Cruz, S ta Anna, S. Vicente, &c., almost 
everywhere in gardens and about houses. Aut. chiefly. — Varr. : 
a. FI. and fr. pale gr. 
/3. FI. and fr. rather larger, cream.-col. or w. 
Habit and foliage of a Cucumber rather than of a Gourd. 
Rootstock or rhizome large amorphous massive corky rather 
than fleshy or woody. St. ann. slender tough but succulent 
shining pale gr., climbing extensively by the long-stalked mostly 
4- cleft strongly curling opposite-leafed tendrils, and becoming 
thickly matted. L. 5 or (3 in. in diam. strongly cordate with 
the basal lobes approximate, rounded but more or less distinctly 
5- or 6-angular, and whilst young sharply 5-7-lobed like Ivy- 
leaves, with the middle lobe produced ; thin and flaccid, rather 
dark gr., immaculate slightly shining and appearing naked, but 
finely roughened or scabrous on the upper surface with hard 
very minute sharp conical scattered dots or pimples (bulbs of 
mostly undeveloped hairs) ; beneath smooth and even or with 
onlv a few soft scattered hairs, and with the nerves and veins 
curiously bordered; the edges nearly or quite entire. Male 
fl. in short whorled long-stalked axillary rac., small, ^ in. in 
diam., pale greenish in a, cream-col. or w. in /3, with a very 
slight but delightful Peach-like fragrance or like the fl. of 
the common Can. Toumefortia ( Messer schmidid) fruticosa L. fil. 
or of the Mad. garden Oestrum Bella sombra Dim. in DC. ; 5-an- 
gular depressed and mealy-crystalline in bud, with the gr. cal.- 
lobes or sep. erect and conspicuous. Rac. 1-3 in. long on a 
stiff ribbed or angular mostly curved smooth stalk 2-4 in. long, 
with the fl.-buds crowded or agglomerate upwards and the 
tip often hooked or curved; the lower fl. shortly pedicelled, 
finally remote and deciduous. Cal. -cup flatly hypocrateri- 
form or saucer-shaped, combined with and resembling in col. 
and consistence the cor., pubescent, 10-nerved, the nerves 
forming the midribs of its segno, and of those of the cor. and 
dividing it into 10 compartments, flatly umbilicate beneath or 
