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Peduncles of the male inflorescence nude, angulose-striate, mostly longer than 

 the leaves, the 20 to 30 flowers more or less congested in a few terminal fascicles. 

 Pedicels capillary, 2 to 5 mm. long. Calyx glabrous, broadly spreading, about 3 mm. 

 in diameter; teeth subulate-setaceous, 0.0 mm. long. Corolla white; segments ovate, 

 more or less rounded at tip, about 2 mm. long, 1.5 to 2 mm. broad, more or less regu- 

 larly 7-veined, pubescent, glandular or papillose. Staminal disk with a crown of 

 papil lose hairs around the connec- 

 tive. Pedicel of the female flower 

 1.5to2mm.long. Calyx and corolla 

 as in male flower. Ovary fusiform, 

 rounded at base, echinate through- 

 out except on the long terminal 

 rostrum. Stigma sessile, rounded- 

 depressed, sublobulate, 2 to 2.5 

 mm. broad, 1 mm. high. 



Fruiting peduncle 2 to 3 cm. 

 long. Fruit 2 to 2.5 cm. long, 1 to 

 1.5 cm. in diameter, densely cov- 

 ered with hard, hooked spines, 

 many-seeded. Seeds elongate (5 

 to 6 mm. long, 3 to 4 mm. broad, 

 0.5 to 1 mm. thick), flattened, ap- 

 pendiculate at base, regularly sin- 

 uate on the margin, brown or yel- 

 lowish brown, smooth. 



Costa Rica: Hedges around San 

 Jose, altitude 1,200 meters, Tonduz, 

 flowers, November 28, 1889 (Insti- 

 tute ffs.-geog. Costa Rica no. 1449; 

 San Francisco de Guadalupe, alti- 

 tude 1,200 meters, Tonduz, flowers 

 and fruit, November, 1893 ( Institute ffs.-geog. Costa Rica no. 1551, in part); along Rio 

 Maria Aguilar near San Jose, altitude 1,100 meters. Tonduz, flowers and fruit, December 

 29, 1892 (Institute ffs.-geog. Costa Rica no. 2768); Alio de Ochomogo, altitude 1,500 

 meters, Tonduz, flowers and fruit, October, 189G (Institute ffs.-geog. Costa Rica no. 

 10904); bushes around Nicoya, altitude 300 meters, Tonduz, fruit, January, 1900 

 (Institute ffs.-geog. Costa Rica no. 13509). 



Guatemala: Carrizal, Department of Santa Rosa, altitude 2,700 

 meters, Heyde & Lux, flowers, November, 1892 (Donnell Smith Her- 

 barium no. 4187). 



Fig. 28. 



-Leaves of Cyclanthera tonduzii. a, b, Extreme 

 forms and sizes. Scale \. 



3. Cyclanthera naudiniana Cogn. in DC. Monogr. Phan. 3: 831. 

 1881. Figure 29. 



General distribution: From Texas and New Mexico south to 

 Panama. 



Cvclantkeranau- Costa Rica : Found by Waraeewiez, about 1848 (Herb. Boissier), 

 diniana. Scale J. but not reported since. 



4. Cyclanthera langaei Cogn. Diagn. Cucurb. 2: 07. 1877. Figures 30, 34. 



General distribution: Middle America, from Central Mexico to Panama. 



Costa Rica: El Titoral, near Rio Birrfs, slopes of Volcan Irazu, altitude 2,400 

 meters, Pittier, flowers, January 28, 1889 (Institute ffs.-geog. Costa Rica no. 881); 

 Carrillo, Rio Sucio Valley, altitude 3,002 meters, Cooper, flowers, July, 1888 (Insti- 

 tute ffs.-geog. Costa Rica no. 888); San Francisco de Guadalupe near San Jose, 1,200 



