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* * Ovary usually 2-celled, with the few ovules erect or ascending. 
8. Echinocystis. Fruit not gibbous, bladdery, bursting at the top: anthers 3. 
Y. Cyclanthera. Fruit oblique, gibbous, bursting elastically: calyx-tube rotate 
or cup-shaped: anther 1. 
*** Ovary 1-celled, with a solitary pendulous ovule, 
10. Sicyos. Corolla of the sterile flowers flat and spreading, 5-lobed: fruit inde- 
hiscent. 
1. LAGENARIA Seringe. (CaLaBpasn. BOTTLE-GOURD.) 
A climber, with 2-forked tendrils, biglandular petioles, musk-scented 
flowers solitary in the axils (sterile on long, fertile on shorter peduncle), 
funnel-form or bell-shaped calyx-tube, 5 obcordate or obovate and mu- 
cronate white petals, the narrow anther-cells contorted or conduplicate, 
3 stigmas each 2-lobed, 1-celled ovary with mostly 3 placentwe with 
numerous horizontal seeds, and a fruit with a hard or woody rind and 
soft flesh. 
1. L. vulgaris Seringe. Climbing freely, rather clammy-pubescent and musky- 
scented : leaves rounded, cordate: flowers long-stalked: white pevals greenish-veiny : 
fruit of very various shapes, usually club-shaped, or long and much enlarged at the 
apex, the hard rind used for vessels, ete.—Cultivated by the Indians from the earliest 
discovery of North America, and naturalized in southern Texas, 
2. CUCUMIS L. (MELON. CucUMBER.) 
Twining or trailing plants, with simple tendrils, sterile flowers clus- 
tered and with short caiyx-tube, fertile ones solitary in the axils, 5 al- 
most distinet acute petals, distinct stamens, anthers with only one bend 
and the connective produced beyond the cells, 3 blunt stigmas, and 
fruit with a fleshy rind. 
1. C. Anguria L. Hirsute: leaves deeply 3 to 7 (usually 5)-lobed, lobes obovate 
or spatulate, blunt, denticulate, the 3 larger separated by a rounded sinus: flowers 
small, yellow: fertile peduncles slender: fruit ovoid, muricate with rigid spinules.— 
A tropical species, found by Palmer near Uvalde. 
3. CITRULLUS Neck. (WATERMELON. ) 
Resembling the last, but with tendrils 2 or 3-forked, connective not 
produced, and seeds imbedded in the enlarged pulpy placentie. 
1. C. vulgaris Schrad. Prostrate: leaves deeply 3 to 5-lobed, the divisions again 
lobed or sinnate-pinnatifid, pale or bluish: corolla deeply 5-cleft, widely open, pale 
yellow.—Said by Dr. Havard to be found wild in many places west of the Pecos. 
4. COCURBITA L. 
Prostrate scabrous vines rooting at the joints, with large yellow 
flowers which are monccious and mostly solitary, campanulate calyx- 
tube, campanulate corolla 5-lobed to the middle, distinct filaments, 
linear united anthers contorted, short thick style with 3 to 5 2-lobed 
stigmas, 3 to 5 parietal placentie, and an indehiscent smooth fleshy 
fruit with a hard rind. 
