286 THE NATURAL HISTORY 
PLANTS, ANIMALS, &c. 
Mentioned in the Scriptures. 
C U C U M I S melo. Melon. Arab. Kaun. 
Cucurbita citrullus. Water melon. Arab. 
Battech. Syriacis jabbas. 
Cucumis fativus. Cucumbers. Arab, chiar. 
Cucurbita lagenaria. Gourd. Arab, charrak. 
Braflica fativa. Cabbage. Arab, krump. Sy- 
riac. malfuf. 
Cucumis colocynthis. Bitter apple. Arab. 
Handal. 
Momordica balfamina. Male balfam apple. 
Balfamita. 
Momordica elaterium. Spirting cucumber. By 
the Syrians called adjur el hemar, i. <r. Afles cu- 
cumber. Thefe names may be compared with 
the Hebrew, to explain the lcriptures, where men- 
tion is made of the cucumbers of Egypt. 
Luke xvii. ver. 6. Chrift certainly 
meant the Sycamore of the Ancients, and Pharaoh’s 
fig-tree of the Egyptians, which the Arabians call 
Guimez, when he pointed to a large tree, which 
he faid the difciples might, by faith, remove into 
the fea ; for fuch there are now in Judtea and 
Galilee, where Chrift then was, fee ver. ii. °j 
the fame chapter. Luther, therefore, tranflated 
it very badly in calling it a mulberry-tree, which 
is neither congruent with fcripture nor natural 
hiftory. 
Luke 
