[1219] The word gourd is also used in English for Cucurbita maxima. This is one of the examples of the confusion in common names and the greater accuracy of scientific terms.
[1220] Naudin, Annales des Sc. Nat., 4th series, vol. xii. p. 91; Cogniaux, in our Monog. Phanérog., iii. p. 417.
[1221] Linnæus, Species Plantarum, p. 1434, under Cucurbita.
[1222] A. P. de Candolle, Flora Française (1805), vol. iii. p. 692.
[1223] Rheede, Malabar, iii. pls. 1, 5; Royle, Ill. Himal., p. 218.
[1224] Roxburgh, Fl. Ind., edit. 1832, vol. iii. p. 719.
[1225] Rumphius, Amboin, vol. v. p. 397, t. 144.
[1226] Piddington, Index, at the word Cucurbita lagenaria; Ad. Pictet, Origines Indo-Europ., edit. 3, vol. i. p. 386.
[1227] Seemann, Flora Vitiensis, p. 106.
[1228] Bentham, Flora Australiensis, iii. p. 316.