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li ECO BBS OF THE BOTANICAL SURVEY OF INDIA 
i^'R. : July (Palgrave). 
Distuib. : Probably indigenous in India. 
Veni. name : IcMydr (Post) 
10. C. tuberculatiis Foisk. FI. Aeg.-Aiab. (1775) CXXIT, n. 582. 
H ABITAT : II. Mor, Surdud (Forsk.V 
Distrib. : Endemic ? 
Vern. name : dahaq (Forsk.). 
Species dithiae. 
C. sativus batticli Djebbal Forsk. FI. Aeg.-Arab. (1775) 169. 
C. iiPheiiiita Forsk. 1. c. CXXII, n. 578. 
6. Citriillus Neck. 
1. C. colocyiithis Schrad in Linnaea xii, (.1838) 114; Anders. FI. Aden. 
(1860) 20 ; Oliv. FI. Trop. Afr. ii, (1871) 548 ; Boiss. FI. Or. ii, (1872) 
759 ; Dell. Yemen (1889) 139 ; Blatt. FI. Aden (1915) 207 . — Cucumis 
colocijnthis L. Sp. PI. (1753) 1011 ; DC. Prodr. iii, 302. 
Habitat: I. Wady Nasb (Drake 66!); Ramleb (Hart!); W. Gennah 
(Lord!); ‘W. Ghurnudel (Harfc!); Wady es Sle^ Wb Tarfa^ W. Shellal 
(Kneuck.); Midian (Burton!). 
II. Jiddah (Zohrab 108!); Aden (01. & Cl.! S. : Dell.! 
Anders. ! Birdw. ! Kuntze^ Marcbe^tti) 
III. Hadramaut : Between Sibeh and Tahiyeli, 900 ft. (Lunt 
J05 !). 
Pr. : Jan. 1863 (01. and Cl.), Apr. 1868 (Lord), Dec. 1893 (Lunt). 
Distrib. : Spain, Canaries, Cape Verd Islands, N. Africa, Arabia, 
Palestine, Sind, Punjab, Ceylon. 
Yern. name: Colocynth. Arabic name; Handhal\; {dohnel-landhal = oil jof C.), liondol 
(Post). 
3. C. vulgilvis Sohrad. in Linnaea, xii, 412 ; Oliv. FI. Trop. Afr. ii, 
(1871) ~5d9; Cogn. in DC, Mouogr. Phanerog. iii, (1881) 508 ; Krause in 
Engl. Bot. Jabrb. xxxv, (1905) 737 . — Cucurhita Citrullns L. Sp. PI. (1753) 
1010; Forsk. FI. Aeg.-Arab. (1775) CXXII, n. 570 and p. 167, n. 41; 
Deft. Yemen (1889) 225. — Cucurb ta Citndlus Batticli Forsk. 1. c. CXXII, 
n. 572 and p. 167, n. 43. 
Habitat : II. Hadiyah and Uabfad, Mor (Forsk.); cultivated in Yaman 
(Defl.); near Labaj (Ellenb.). 
Distrib. : I'ropical Africa, Arabia. 
Vcrn name; duhba faraJcis, schwredj (Porak.), hadeh, T(EllenbGck), Jahas, 
BaTtilch aJchdar (Post). • 
