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ORNAMENTAL GOURDS— Continued. 
COCCINEA INDICA, very fino shining ivy-like foliage, with large white flowers and 
scarlet fruit q 
COCCINEA MacKENNI, climbling plant of great beauty, fruit bright scarlet, marbled 
white . 1 
CUCURBITA AE&YROSPEEMA (rirm). very largo fruits, containing beautiful seeds of 
silvery white, with green borders, which are eatable, and of a nutty flavour . . . I 
CUCURBITA DE LA FLORIDA {new), remarkable for the great beauty of its fruits . 1 
CUCURBITA (LAGENARIA) GIGANTEA, remarkablo for the immonso size ofits fruit 0 
CUCURBITA MAXIMA VERRUCOSA (new), fruit of a dark green colour, warted . 1 
CUCURBITA RADICANS, a new and remarkable annual species from Mexico. The 
flowers are of a fine orange colour, succeeded by white or yellow marbled fruit; a really 
fine acquisition .......... X 
CYCLANTHERA EXPLODENS, an annual climbing plant, with handsome foliage and 
curious spiny oval-shaped fruit 0 
CYCLANTHERA PEDATA, very ornamental . . . . . , . . q 
IN VOLUCRARI A LEPINI ANA. This is considered one of the best of recently introduced 
Cucurbitaceous climbers ; its flowers are white, fringed, and in clusters, succeeded by oval 
fruits about the size of a hen’s egg, and of a pure orange colour. Tho plant is 
perennial, and suited for a greenhouse, or out of doors in summer . . . . .1 
LAGENARIA ANGOLENSIS, the flowers aro large and white, the fruit green, blotched 
with white, the size and shape of an orange .......... 1 
LAG-ENAItlA NATALENSIS, very much like L. angolensis , but with dark green shiny 
fruit, blotched white ^ 
EAGENAItlA SPHJ5ERICA, flowers snowy white, and exquisitely variegated green and 
white fruit, size of an orange ......... 1 
EUFFA ACUTANGULA, an elegant small Gourd ........ 0 
LiTJFFA CYXiINDRICA (Poppia fabiana) .......... 0 
EUFFA JACQ,UINI, very pretty cylindrical fruit 
MELOTHRIA CUCUMERINA, a pretty species of Cucumber ; the fruit smooth, slender, 
and about an inch and a half long 0 
MELOTHRIA REGELI, a climbing Cucurbit, with elogant lobed foliage and small white 
flowers, succeeded by numerous small oval white fruits ...... 1 
MELOTHRIA PENDULA, most elegant climber, producing a profusion of small black 
fruits ........... q 
MELOTHRIA SCABRA, a very pretty annual climber, leaves dark green, small and 
rough; flowers bright yellow, and fruits about as large as "Haws,” green, streaked with 
white. It appears to fruit froely in northern climates, and from its 'small growth is an 
elogant plant for pots .......... X 
MOMORDICA BALSAMINA LEUCANTHA, a climber of great beauty, with large 
white flowers, spotted black, and showy fruit with carmine protuberances .... 1 
MUKIA SCABRELLA, a very protty climber, with small heart-shaped leaves, aud small 
scarlet berries. ............ 0 
RHYNCHOCARPA DISSECTA, a beautiful perennial, with elegantly cut leaves, and 
myriads of oval orange coloured fruit 
RHYNCHOCARPA WELWITSCHI, a olimbor, with thick leaves and tassel-like fruit, 
of fine blood rod colour X 
SCOTANTHUS TUBIFLORUS, climber of great beauty, with thickly sot foliage, white 
tubular flowers, which open in the evening, and handsome scarlet fruits .... 0 
SECHIUM EDULE ( Cliayotte ), a most remarkable ornamental climber. Tho fruit is about 
the size of a large cocoa nut, handsome, green, and covered with protuberances and hairs. 
This fruit contains one seed, which must not bo separated from it, but grows during its 
early stages upon its substance, pushing its plumule and young stem forth from its base. 
It is eatable, but somewhat insipid, though valuable as an ornamental plant . per fruit 1 
SECHIUM EDULE FRUCTU ALBA, a variety similar to tho preceding, with white 
per fruit 2 
THLADIANTHE DUBIA, a valuable climber, with heart-shaped leaves, and a great 
abundance of yellow bell-shaped flowers 
TRICH0SANTHE3 ANGUINA, reddish orange, striped white, 2 f[. long . . .0 
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