250 Of Fruits. Part II* 
long, flat, oval, and horned, as it were, with two knobs at 
the Bafe: being chewd, of a very bitter taft. 
The WARTED GOURD. Figur’d, and infomefort 
(a) Lib. 16. defcribed (a) in Bauhinus. Probably, Lobelius’s Sicyopepon 
c - l - Strumofus. This is above a foot and 1 about, near 1 a foot 
long, thickeft towards the top, and there a little depreffed 
as an Apple. Soft and brittle, and now juft of the colour 
of Buff-Leather. The Warts or Knobs all round about it, 
are neither blifters, nor folid, but embofled parts of the 
Rind. 
Another of the fame Species , but leffcr. 
The LONG WARTED GOURD. Not defcribed. 
Almoft two feet in compafs, and near a foot in length. 
In other refpedts, altogether like the former. 
ANOTHER with fmall and few WARTS. About four 
inches long, towards the upper end, as much over. The 
colour, and fhape at the top, as of the reft. 
The BROAD TUBEROUS GOURD. Probably that 
(10 Lib. 1 6 . defcribed and figur’d in Bauh. ( b ) by the Name of Cu¬ 
curbit a Clypeiforvm f. Melopepon lanes 5 at leaft of kin to it. 
Of a Buff colour, as the former 5 four inches long, four 
and v broad; furrounded with undulated Knobs an inch 
or 11 over, with furrows between each Knob and by the 
length; depreffed at the bottom3 the top with a knob I an 
inch over. 
The FLAT GOURD. Melopepo comprejfus alter , Lo- 
belio. This came from Virginia. ’Tis three inches long, 
or from the Stalk to the top, and three and '■ inch broad 3 
at both ends, comprefted like a Bowl. Of a dusky yellow 
mixed with tawny. 
The Little, Round, Bitter GOURD. Figur’d in Ban¬ 
te) Lib. 16. hinus (c) under the Title of Cucurbita amara, fruclu parvo, 
c ‘ I- globofo, colore uaria. The Defcription lies in the Name. A 
fort of Colocyntbvs. 
The Yellow, Round, GOURD. In Bank, the Fruit and 
Plant together, entitul’d, Cucurbita afpera, minima, fpbec- 
rica , crocea, variegata. With a conjecture of its being the 
fame with that which by Tabernamoutames is called Bepo In¬ 
die a minor. 
Not only the fhells of Calabajbes, but alfo the Rinds of 
Gourds, are ufed as Veffels for Gums, and other matter's 
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