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	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. Monogr. by Cogniaux, DC. Monogr. Phaner. 3. See, also, Naudin, Ann. Sci. Nat. (Bot.) IV. 11:9; 12:108.		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. Monogr. by Cogniaux, DC. Monogr. Phaner. 3. See, also, Naudin, Ann. Sci. Nat. (Bot.) IV. 11:9; 12:108.

			C. acutangulus, Hort.= Luffa.- C. Citrullus, Ser.= Citrullus vulgaris.— C. Colocynthis, Linn.= CitruIlus Colocynthis.—C. metuliferus, Mey. Hispid annual, with palmately somewhat 3-lobed cordate petiolate Lvs., and oblong-obtuse spiny fr., about 4 in. long. S. Afr.—C. perennis, James = Cucurbita.— 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.—C. Vilmorinii, Hort. A plant of unrecorded origin, with cut lvs. and abundance of canary-yellow soft-spined frs. L.H.B
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			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. Monogr. by Cogniaux, DC. Monogr. Phaner. 3. See, also, Naudin, Ann. Sci. Nat. (Bot.) IV. 11:9; 12:108.

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{{Taxobox
| color = lightgreen
| name = ''Cucumis''
| image = Melon.jpg
| image_width = 200px
| image_caption = melon
| regnum = [[Plantae]]
| divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
| classis = [[Magnoliopsida]]
| ordo = [[Cucurbitales]]
| familia = [[Cucurbitaceae]]
| genus = '''''Cucumis'''''
| genus_authority = [[Carolus Linnaeus|L.]]
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision =
* ''[[Cucumis anguria]]''
* ''[[Cucumis dipsaceus]]''
* ''[[Cucumis ficifolius]]''
* ''[[Cucumis humifructus]]'' (aardvark cucumber)
* ''[[Cucumis melo]]'' (melon)
* ''[[Cucumis metuliferus]]'' (horned melon)
* ''[[Cucumis myriocarpus]]''
* ''[[Cucumis prophetarum]]''
* ''[[Cucumis sativus]]'' (cucumber)
}}

'''''Cucumis''''' is a genus of [[vine|twining]], [[tendril]]-bearing plants in the [[Cucurbitaceae]] [[family(biology)|family]] which includes the [[cucumber]], true [[melon|melons]], the [[horned melon]], and [[Cucumis anguria]], the West Indian [[gherkin]].

==See also==
*[[Cucumber]]
*[[Melon]]
*[[Horned melon]]
*[[Bailan melon]]
*[[Cantaloupe]]
*[[Galia (melon)|Galia]]
*[[Hami Melon]]
*[[Honeydew (melon)|Honeydew]]
*[[Muskmelon]]
*[[Piel de Sapo]]
*[[Sugar melon]]
*[[Winter melon]]

==References==
* Ghebretinsae, A. G., Thulin, M. & Barber, J. C. (2007). Relationships of cucumbers and melons unraveled: molecular phylogenetics of ''Cucumis'' and related genera (Benincaseae, Cucurbitaceae). ''American Journal of Botany'' 94(7): 1256–1266.
* {{cite journal| last = Renner, S. S.| first = Schaefer, H. & Kocyan, A.| title = Phylogenetics of Cucumis (Cucurbitaceae): Cucumber (C. sativus) belongs in an Asian/Australian clade far from melon (C. melo)| journal = BMC Evolutionary Biology| volume = 7| year = 2007| pages = 58-69| doi = 10.1186/1471-2148-7-58}}
== External links ==
* [http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Cucumis.html Multilingual taxonomic information at the University of Melbourne]
* {{ITIS|ID=22359}}

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[[Category:Cucurbitaceae]]