Cucumis

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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Cucumis (old Latin name). Cucurbitaceae. Tendril-bearing soft tender herbs, some of which are grown for their edible fruits. Annual or perennial- rooted (the common cult. species annual), with large alternate entire or palmately lobed or dissected Lvs.: monoecious (rarely dioecious); sterile fls. in clusters, not lone-stalked, the fertile ones solitary and mostly short-stalked in the axils; corolla of 5 deep acute lobes; stamens not united; stigmas 3, obtuse: tendrils simple: fr. a pepo, mostly 3-celled, usually indehiscent, fleshy or thick, globular, oblong or cylindrical, sometimes echinate, many-seeded.— About 30 species of villous or spinescent climbers and trailers with annual sts., in warm parts of the globe, most abundant in Afr. CH The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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Species

Species^wp:

• Cucumis anguria
• Cucumis dipsaceus
• Cucumis ficifolius
• Cucumis humifructus (aardvark cucumber)
• Cucumis melo (melon)
• Cucumis metuliferus (horned melon)
• Cucumis myriocarpus
• Cucumis prophetarum
• Cucumis sativus (cucumber)

SCH:

• C. acutangulus, Hort.= Luffa.^CH
• C. Citrullus, Ser.= Citrullus vulgaris.^CH
• C. Colocynthis, Linn.= CitruIlus Colocynthis.^CH
• C. metuliferus, Mey. Hispid annual, with palmately somewhat 3-lobed cordate petiolate Lvs., and oblong-obtuse spiny fr., about 4 in. long. S. Afr.^CH
• C. perennis, James = Cucurbita.^CH
• C. prophetarum, Linn. Slender perennial with ashy scabrous long-stalked mostly 3-5- lobed Lvs., and longitudinally white-striped softly spinose fr. 1-1¾ in. long. Afr.^CH
• C. Vilmorinii, Hort. A plant of unrecorded origin, with cut lvs. and abundance of canary-yellow soft-spined frs.^CH

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References

• Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963

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