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CALYCIPLOItiE. 
with oblongo-ovate acute papillae, fruit pubescent, 
when ripe glabrous very smooth with the pulp 
white and edible. — DC . 
Cucurbita tertia seu lagenaria, flore albo, folio molli, 
Sloane, I. 225. — C. villoso, fructu pyriformi, Browne , 
354. 
H AB. Fences and waste places. 
F L. Throughout the year. 
Fruit is of various shapes and sizes. Some are six feet 
long and two feet thick. The large gourd resembles a 
bottle in shape having a long neck and large bulb, and 
when freed of its pulp and seeds will hold several gallons 
of water. Some are cylindrical, and serve as powder 
horns. The African negroes also make of it a musical 
instrument, resembling a guitar, styled the Banjo , 
to produce an accompaniment to their simple songs. 
The pulp is never employed for any purpose. A decoc- 
tion of the leaves is said to be purgative. The fruit is 
styled by the French “ Galabasse rampante ou de terre ” 
III. Cucumis. 
Calyx tubuloso-campanulate 5 divisions subu- 
late scarcely the length of the tube. Petals 
slightly united among themselves and to the 
calyx. £ Stamens 5, triadelphous. 9 Stigmata 
3, thick, bipartite. Pepo 3-6-celled, with the 
seeds ovate, compressed and not margined. 
Name from the Latin cucumis, a cucumber. 
1. Cucumis melo. The Melon. 
Stem humifuse scabrous cirrhiferous, leaves 
rounded angular ; Male flowers, with the tube of 
the calyx subventricose at the base dilated at the 
apex, stamens included, and anthers shorter than 
the connective ; hermaphrodite flowers, with the 
anthers as in the former, the stigmata 3-4, shortly 
bi-lobed 5 fruit ovate or subglobose 8-12-sulcated, 
with the flesh yellow or white. — DC. 
