CUCURBITACEAE 1987 
OKEECHOBEE-GOURD).—Hammocks, about Lake Okeechobe ee, Fla.—Spr.-sum.— 
pr. 
DE: relatives, sometimes met with in the field are: the field-pumpkin (Pepo 
Pepo (L. har ge igh 
erm and usually larger orange-colored fruits, nativity M in S0- 
uchesne i i 
squash 
hapes, known in Florida as the Seminole- ine a may ae found monem g 
wild Een Indian settlements and abandoned camp s 
8. CAYAPONIA me Vines. Leaves with toothed or lobed blades. 
Flowers monoecious or dioecious. Corolla rotate or broadly campanulate, rela- 
tively small.  Pistillat ne with staminodia. Ovary 3-celled; smooth. 
Stigmas dilated. Berry juicy, with a tender rind.—A bout 60 species, American. 
i cres nat decurrent on the petiole: anther fre 
y oval, less than 1.5 cm. long: leaf-blades "usually less than 1 cm. wide. 
. C. Boykinii. 
BE D over 1.5 em. long: leaf-blades usually over 
wide. 2. C. grandifolia. 
Leaf-blade « e on the petiole: anthers coherent. 9. C. racemosa. 
1. C. Boykinii (T. & G.) Cogn. Stem finely pubescent: leaf-blades thickish; 
9—10 cm. long, 3-angled or 3-lobed, sparingly ecd beneath; ee bristly 
villous: corolla greenish- white, the staminate 
0-6 mm. wide: berry 12-14 mm. long: 
mm. long. [Tria $0518 Boylkinu 
o E UE streams, Coastal Plain, Ga. 
2. C. grandifolia (T. & G.) Small. Stem 
sparingly pubescent: leaf- blades “thin, 12-18 
em. long, 3-lobed; petioles softly villous: 
ae greenish-white, ed staminate 7—9 
wide: ber 6-20 Eon —Bottom- 
lands, Coastal Plain, Miss | to La. and Ark, 
— Sum 
3. C. E (Sw.) Cogn. Stem glabrous 
or nearly ']eaf-blades thick, 6-13 em. 
long, 3- lobed. a DNE beneath ; petioles glabrous or nearly so: stami- 
nate eorolla 8-10 m m. wide, greenish: berry ellipsoid to oval, M durs . long: 
seed 9-10 mm. long. Eds Everglade Keys, Fla —(W. I.)—Spr sum. 
9. COCCIN . & A. Perennial dioecious vines. Leaves with angu- 
late or Ei E os blades. s campanulate, relatively targe: Pistil- 
h taminodia. ; 
a 
Ovary smooth and glabrous. Sa smooth. 
Seeds numerous.—About a dozen species, 
natives of the Old World tropics. 
1. C. cordifolia (L.) Cogn. Stem glabrous, 
climbing T blades aa to orbieular in 
outlin em. long, 3-5-lobed, cordate, 
slender petioled ane subulate or linear- 
area long, reflexed: corolla 
whi oy em eae berry “ellipsoid or obo- 
void, X ng um scarlet.—Ham orgy pen. 
Fla. Nat. of Asia.—(W. I., Mex., C. A. 
S. A.)—-All year. 
