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PLANTS. 
43. Cucumis melo b . Melon. 
This is cultivated in the fame places, and ripens 
at the fame time with the Water Melon : it is very 
near as large as the Water Melon, the fiefh is fofter 
than with us, but more iniipid, and has not the 
agreeable fweetnefs of ours, efpecially when v*' e 
procure the feeds from Siberia. The richer peopl e 
eat them in the manner wc do, to gratify the p a> 
late ; the poorer fort eat them but feldom. 
44. Cucumis Chate c . The Egyptian Melon, of 
Queen of Cucumbers. Abdellavi of Alpinus. 
This grows in the fertile earth round Cairo, afte f 
the inundation of the Nile, and not in any othe f 
place in Egypt, nor does it grow in any other foi** 
It ripens with the Water Melons. This fruit is il 
little watery, the flefh is almoft of the fame fuhj 
ftance as the Melons, it tallies fomewhat fweet aflh 
cool, but is far from being as cool as the Wate f 
Melons. 
This the grandees and Europeans in Egypt eilt 
as the moll pleafant fruit they find, and that fr° I ’| 
which they have leaft to apprehend. It is the ib° 
excellent fruit of this tribe, of any yet known. ’I ^ 
Princes and grandees in Europe may wilh they cot 1 * 1 
get it into their gardens, for it is certainly worth 1 
place on their tables. 
45. Rufcus aculeatus f 1 . Prickly Kneeholly* 
» Lin. Sp. PI. P. 1436. N. 5. c Lin. Sp.Pl.P. 1437 - ^ 7 ‘ 
a Jin. S|>. PI. P. 1474. N. 1. 
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