"Cucurbitaceae" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... ebracteata(?) Ditto. Combretum sp. (fruct.) Ditto (not laid in). Combretum sp. Congo. Modeeca tamnifolia(?), Kl. Annabom. Syzygium Avariense, Kth. Congo. Melothria triangularis(?), Kth. Ditto. Melothria(?) sp. Ditto. Cucurbitaceae (3 other spp. very imperfect and not laid in). Umbelliferae Congo. Desmodium Mauritianum(?), D.C. Ditto, Annabom(?) Desmodium do. v. adscendens Congo. Desmodium latifolium, D.C. Dahome. Desmodium Gargeticum (?), D. C. Annabom. Cajanus Indicus, ...
— Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2 • Richard F. Burton
... necessary to act as a reservoir for preserving its life; and the same thing occurs in Angola to a species of grape-bearing vine, which is so furnished for the same purpose. The plant to which I at present refer is one of the cucurbitaceae, which bears a small, scarlet-colored, eatable cucumber. Another plant, named Leroshua, is a blessing to the inhabitants of the Desert. We see a small plant with linear leaves, and a stalk not thicker than a crow's quill; on digging down a foot or eighteen inches beneath, we ...
— Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa - Journeys and Researches in South Africa • David Livingstone
... there were a species of Celtis; the Melia Azederach (White Cedar); a species of Phyllanthus, (a shrub from six to ten feet high); an Asclepiadaceous climber, with long terete twin capsules; and several Cucurbitaceae, one with oblong fruit about an inch long, another with a round fruit half an inch in diameter, red and white, resembling a gooseberry; a third was of an oblong form, two inches and a half long and one broad; and a fourth was of the size and form of an orange, and of a beautiful scarlet ...
— Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia • Ludwig Leichhardt |
