1284 CUCURBITACEAE 
1. MELOTHRIA L. | Slender Ra e vines. Leaves with toothed or 
lobed blades. Flowers mainly m Hypanthi of the pistillate 
flowers relatively nid) Corolla xim pn of the ei late flowers relative 
short, about 8 mm. broad (in our species), that of the staminate flower Ee. 
Bow juicy, the rind tender. Seed flat——About 70 species, natives of warm 
and tropical i E eee MELONETTES. 
Berry. ellipsoid or ov 
Stem climbing: leat blades longer than wide, the lobes angular: berry dark- 
urple or blacki 1. M. pendula. 
Stem trailing or Dinos Jeaf-blades wider than long, the 
lobes low and rounded: berry green and somewhat varie- 
ga 2. M. crassifolia. 
Berry globose or subglobose. 
erry r 10 mm. in diameter: leaf-blades deeply lobed. 3. M. Nashii. 
Berry loss than 10 mm. in diameter: leaf-blades shallowly 
. lobed. . M. microcarpa. 
M. pendula L. Leaves glabrous or nearly so (or with hispidulous petioles 
oa m Fed blades in M. pendula noue blades suborbieular to ovate 
in outline, 3-8 em. wi with 3-5 angular 
shallow-toothed lobes; petioles hispid: hy- 
panthium glabrous or pubescent: iid ellip- 
soid or oval, 10-25 mm. long.—Swamps an d 
thiekets, various provinces, |a to Tex. Mo., 
and S Pa.— (AM ez.) —Spr.-fall. 
M. crassifolia Small. Leaf-blades sub- 
HEREIN ‘renifo rm, or ovate in outline, 3-8 
em. wide, 1 3-9 i bud shallow-toothed 
lobes: usce dm glabrou ps ddl 
berry ellipsoid or oval, 10 “95 long.— 
Al 
eas mocks, pen. Fla. 'and the uc 
yea 
Nashii E Leaf-blades d 
suborbieular to angular-ovate in outlin 
2-3.5 em. long, 5 5 lobed, the lobes entire or Pans l or 2 teeth or small did 
Seis pour Du globose, 12-15 mm. in diameter.—Pinelands, pen. Fla. 
Spr.- fall. 
M. x pd Shuttlw. Leaf- blades thinnish, commonly as long as wide, 
1-3 em. long, 3—5-lobed, the lobes irregularly toothed: a hispidulous: 
berry globose, 7-9 mm. in diameter.—Thickets, Appalachian Plateau, Ala.— 
r.-sum. 
2. MOMORDICA L. Annual or perennial vines. Leaves with entire, 
lobed, or pedately dissected blades. Flowers monoecious or dioecious. Sta- 
minodia of the pistillate flowers gland-like, or wanting. Stalk of the staminate 
flowers bracted. Style slender. Stigmas 3. Berry warty.—About 25 species, 
native of the Old World Tropics.—The plants flower most of the year. 
Leaf-blades with as or acutish teeth: bract entire, at the ee or base of the 
staminate pedun M. Charantia. 
Leaf-blades with Gane teeth: bract toothed, at the apex of 
the staminate peduncle. 2. M. Balsamina. 
1. M. Charantia L. Stem ereeping or climbing, often greatly elongate: leaf- 
blades ner em. wide, 5—7-lobed, the lobes with acutish or obtuse teeth, villous 
