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Cucumis colocynthis

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Identification
Cucumis colocynthis L. [family CUCURBITACEAE ] Verified by Not on Sheet, Citrullus colocynthis (L.) Schrad. [family CUCURBITACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by F.N. Hepper (Kew), 1984 Citrullus edulis Not on sheet [family CUCURBITACEAE ] Verified by Not on Sheet, Citrullus colocynthoides Not on sheet [family CUCURBITACEAE ] Verified by Not on Sheet,
Related name
  • Citrullus vulgaris
  • Cucumis colocynthis
  • Citrullus edulis
  • Citrullus colocynthis
  • Cucumis prophetarum
  • Citrullus colocynthoides
  • Citrullus lanatus

Flora

Entry for CITRULLUS vulgaris Schrad. [family CUCURBITACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 2, page 482, (1894) Author: (BY W. SONDER.)
Names
CITRULLUS vulgaris Schrad. [family CUCURBITACEAE], l. c.;—Naudin l. c. p. 100.
Cucurbita Citrullus Linn. [family CUCURBITACEAE]
Citrullus caffer Schrad. [family CUCURBITACEAE], l. c. (fruit sweet).
Citrullus amarus Schrad. [family CUCURBITACEAE], ! l. c.
Cucumis Colocynthis [family CUCURBITACEAE], Thunb.! herbar. var. γ et Drege herb.
Momordica lanata Thunb. [family CUCURBITACEAE], ! fl. Cap. 36. (fruit bitter.)
Information
root annual; leaves stalked; the upper ones 3-parted; middle segment sinuated, pinnatifid; lateral ones 2-fid; lobes obovate-rotundate-obtuse, scabrid; radical leaves 5-parted; fruit elliptico-globose, glabrous, when young often woolly. Stem woolly or pubescent. Radical leaves often 6 inches long, 5 inches wide, on a petiole of the same length; upper ones gradually smaller, scabrous above, hairy beneath or nearly glabrous.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA In the sands of the Cape downs, near Tigerberg and Rietvalley, and in similar localities, Somerset; Gamkariver, Zeyher, 587. Jan.-May. (Herb. Th., Hm., Hk., D., Sd.)
Notes
Pepo the size of an apple or of a child's head; when edible or sweet it is called water-melon or Kaffir water-melon; when bitter, it is the bitter apple or wild water-melon of the colonists. The pulp of the latter may be used like that of Colocynth; conf. Pappe Flor. Cap. med. p. 14.

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