1134 CUCURBITACEAE 
sparingly pubescent beneath, cordate at the base; petiole about 3 as long as the blade, 
glabrous: peduncle 1-2 em. long: pedicel 3-4 times longer than the peduncle, subtended 
by ovate or suborbicular bracts: flowers glabrous: bypanthium yellowish green without : 
calyx abruptly bent and somewhat contracted into a neck above the inflation, the limb 
2-3 cm. broad, 3-lobed : capsules cylindric-prismatic, 5-6 cm. long. [A. Sipho L’ Her. ] 
In woods, Minnesota, south to Kansas, Pennsylvania and Georgia. Spring and summer, DUTCH- 
MAN’S PIPE. 
Order 13. CAMPANULALES. 
Herbs, or rarely shrubs or trees. Leaves mainly alternate: blades simple, 
entire, toothed or lobed. Flowers perfect, monoecious or dioecious, regular 
or irregular. .Hypanthium well developed, surrounding the ovary and adnate 
to it. Calyx of usually 5 distinct or partially united sepals. Corolla of 5 or 
rarely 6 distinct or usually partially equally or unequally united petals. An- 
droecium of 3-5 stamens or rarely of only 1 stamen.  Anthers distinct or some- 
times connate. Gynoecium of 2—5 or rarely more united carpels. Ovary in- 
ferior. Styles united. Fruit a capsule or a berry, sometimes a pepo. 
Endosperm wanting: flowers monoecious or dioecious: plants mainly vines. 
Fam. 1. CUCURBITACEAE. 
Endosperm present : flowers perfect or mainly so. 
Corolla regular. Fam. 2. CAMPANULACEAE. 
Corolla split on one side and otherwise more or less irregular. 
Stigma not indusiate: stamens united by either the anthers or fila- 
ments or both. Fam. 3. LOBELIACEAE. 
Stigma indusiate: stamens distinct or rarely united by the anthers. Fam. 4. BRUNONIACEAE. 
FAMILY 1. CUCURBITACEAE B. Juss. Gourp FAMILY. 
Annual or perennial succulent herbs, of great economic value, usually trail- 
ing, or climbing by means of tendrils. Leaves alternate : blades palmately nerved 
or lobed, often pubescent with rough hairs. Inflorescence axillary, clustered, 
panicled or racemose, only one flower in an axil. Flowers monoecious or dioe- 
cious. Calyx of 4 or 5, rarely 6, more or less united sepals, adherent to the 
ovary : lobes imbricated. Corolla of as many petals as the sepals, more or less 
united and adherent to the calyx: lobes entire or fringed. Androecium of 3 
stamens, then two with 2-celled anthers and one with a 1-celled anther, or rarely 
1,2, 4 or 5 stamens. Filaments distinct or variously united. Anthers extrorse, 
more or less contorted. Gynoecium a single compound pistil. Ovary rarely 
1-celled, with 1 pendulous ovule, often 3-celled with many horizontal, anatropous 
ovules in many series. Styles terminal, united. Stigmas thick, dilated or 
fringed. Fruit a fleshy or dry berry (pepo). Seeds rarely solitary and pendu- 
lous, usually numerous, flattened, horizontal. Endosperm wanting. Embryo 
straight, with foliaceous nerved cotyledons. 
Ovary 1-celled, with 3-5 placentae : ovules numerous or rarely few, commonly horizontal. 
Anthers straight or merely curved. RIA 
Disk at the base of the style annular or cup-like. 1. Leer 
Disk at the base of the styJe wantingior obsolete. 2. IBERVI : 
Anthers contorted or conduplicate. 
Ovules or seeds numerous. horizontal. 
Corolla rotate, of 5 distinct or partially united petals. 
Anthers distinct. 
eating e de porn furnished with 2-3 scales. 3. MOMORDICA. 
ottom of the calyx without scales. 
Connective not surpassing the anther-sacs : tendrils branched. 4. Meier 
Connective produced beyond the anther-sacs : {tendrils simple. 5. tim FET 
Anthers cohering in a head. ; 6. C5 RBITA 
Corolla campanulate. 7. OES APONEA. 
Ovules or seeds 1-4 in each cavity, erect or ascending. 8. Ua 
add cR tha oes Dem solitary or few, erect, Anc or pendulous. 
vary usually 2-3-celled : ovules few, erect or ascending. ES. 
Stamens 2-3: leaf-blades lobed: fruit symmetrical, opening at thetop. . 9. MICRAMPEL 
Stamens united into a single column: leaf-blades compound: fruit oblique, 10. CYCLANTHERA- 
_ elastically bursting. 11. Srcvos 
Ovary 1-celled : ovule solitary, pendulous. ? > 
1. MELÒTHRIA L. i 
Herbs, with slender trailing or climbing stems. . Leaf-blades entire, lobed or cum 
divided: petioles furnished with simple tendrils at the axils. Flowers monoecious 
