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ANGURIA WarscEwiczil. 
Warscewicz’s Anguria. 
Nat. Ord. Cucursiracra.—Dia@cita DIANDRIA. 
Gen. Char. Flores dioici. Masc. Calyx tubo campanulato, ventricoso ; limbo 
5-partito. Corolla imo calyci adnatim inserta ; Jimdi liberi quinquepartiti, laciniis 
angustis, patentibus. Stamina 2, ime corolle inserta, libera ; filamenta brevissima; 
anthere biloculares; loculis linearibus, connectivi lati, mutici y. angusti, in acumen 
producti marginibus adnatis, rectis v. flexuosis. Fam. Calyx tubo cum ovario 
connato ; limbo supero, campanulato, 5-fido. Corolla maris. Stamina 2, sterilia. 
Ovarium inferum. Stylus bifidus ; stigmata bipartita. Bacca oblongo-subtetra- 
gona, bi-quadrilocularis, polysperma. Semina .. . —Herbee Americane tropice ; 
radice crassa, verrucosa ; foliis alternis, petiolatis, cordatis, integris vel pedatisectis ; 
cirrhis simplicibus; pedunculis axillaribus ; masculis elongatis, racemosis ; foemineis 
unifloris. Endl. 
AnGuri# (§ Euanguria) Warscewiczii ; foliis petiolatis cordatis trifoliolatis, foliolis 
petiolulatis, lateralibus subsemihastatis medio obovato-oblongo omnibus 
brevi-acuminatis angulato-sinuatis, pedunculis masculinis folio (cum petiolo) 
duplo longioribus, floribus spicatis, calyce viridi cylindraceo, limbi lobis cras- 
sis glanduliformibus, petalis pulcherrime rubro-aurantiacis, staminibus 2. 
Anouria Warscewiczii. Hort. 
Although we are at present only acquainted with the male 
plant of this species of Anguria, we gladly figure it, and re- 
commend it as well deserving of cultivation on the rafters of a 
warm stove, where it produces its brilliant scarlet flowers in the 
middle of winter. At least it has been so with our plant, in 
December. It is a perfectly new, and as far as I yet know an un- 
described, species of the little-known Cucurbitaceous genus, 4n- 
guria. We received it, under the name here adopted, from Mr. 
Henderson, St. John’s Wood Nursery. It is most likely one 
of the many interesting plants introduced into European gardens 
by Mr. Linden, and was no doubt collected by Warscewicz ; 
but where I have no means of knowing. My Herbarium, how- 
ever, possesses native specimens recently sent me by my valued 
botanical correspondent, Sutton Hayes, Esq., who gathered it in © 
MARCH IsT, 1862. 
