722 _— 
in Mexico, loco non designato: Aschb. n. 233. (3? 
Herba subsueeulenta, pätenti-ramosa, ramis Dexuosis 
superne subdichotome in inflorescentiam abeuntibus, Felia “ 
inferiora in nosiris speeiminibas desunt; superiora alternas 
basi leviter cordata, irregulariter 5——7-lebata et inaequali- 
ter crenata, supra subnitida setisque sparsis hispidala, suh- 
ins pallidiora commnnique indamento asperrima. Inßorescen- 
tia snbdichgtoma cymosa, cymis parlialibus racemos serun- 
dos mentientibus. Fiores pedicellati, brastea lineari pedieel- 
lum aequante vel breviore snflulti. . Calycis tubus obcon cs, 
Iaciniis oblongo-Aanceelatis acutis tnbum aequantibus, 3 lin. 
par. longis, interna pagina strigoso-hispidis. Corollae pr- 
tala oborata, obtusa, pestice paullisper attenuata basique 
Lıta sessilia, extus subvillosa, intus glabra, fava, longitu- 
dinaliter venosa, calyce duplo longiora. Stamina numers#a, 
ima basi cohaerentia, paullo inaequalia, vix antheris ‚orol- 
lam excedentia. Capsula summo apice tantummodeo liber2 
ibidemgue 5-valvis, wnilocularis, spermophoris 5 valris al- 
ternis. Semina numerosissima, minima, eylindriea, ad hilum 
acuminata, sulcis manifestis longitudinaliter exarata. — 
Proxima sane M. lobatze Hook. icon. plant, 1. 234, a qua 
vero differt non solum foliorum figura et orenatura, sel 
etiam foribos majoribus staminibusque ratione corollae multo 
longioribag, j . . 
Ordo GUCURBITACHAE Juss. 
1. Sicyos eremocarpus 8. Schauer: glaber, folis tuber- 
enlis sparsis seabriasculis . basi sinn lato arenato cordatis 
5-lIobis, lobis acutis integerrimis vel repande - denticulatis, 
intermedio produetiore- Janceolate, infimis' angulato-divarira- 
tis, eirrhis simplieibus, Boribus mascnlia laxe racemosis, foe- 
mwineis singulis axillaribus, fructibus sublunato-oratis Bl& 
bris sed aculeis herbaceis longis echinatie, 
In Mexico: Aschb. n. 325. 
