CUCURBITACEÆ, the name of the 34th order in Linnaeus's fragments of a natural method, consisting of plants which resemble the gourd in external figure, habit, virtues, and sensible qualities. This order contains the following genera, viz. gronovia, melothria, passiflora, anguria, bryonia, cucumis, cucurbita, sevilica, momordica, sicyos, trichosanthes.