The female flowers are produced solitary, as figured and 
described, at t. 2681. The male, on the other hand, pro- 
duces, upon an axillary peduncle (between the point of 
insertion of the lateral tendril and the leaf,) of six or 
eight inches in length, a receme of six or eight large flowers, 
each upon a pedicle, often bracteated, an inch or more 
long. Here, too, the Calyx is large, campanulate, downy, 
nerved, cut into five deep ovate or ovato-lanceolate, very 
deeply inciso-serrate segments, almost half as long as the 
flower. Corolla of five petals, very similar, as far as I can 
judge from the dried specimens, and from the drawing, to 
those of the female. Stamens five, and (apparently) dis- 
tinct; but I am not able to determine clearly that point, 
nor that of their exact insertion. Filaments cuneate, taper- 
ing downwards ; the broad upper part separates the two 
linear oblong cells of the ‘anther, which open with a longi- 
tudinal fissure, and, as well as the pollen, are yellow. 
The fruit constitutes an enormous Berry or Pepo, from 
one and a half, to three feet in length, and often eight 
inches across, oblong, always green, having from ten to 
twelve deep furrows, the prominences rounded, the bottoms 
of the furrows rough, with minute elevated points, as is 
the concave part where the stalk is inserted: the apex is 
acute, or shortly acuminated, and near the base is a con- 
traction ; so that the very base forms a dilated, furrowed 
apophysis. There are five cells, each cell filled with a 
dense fleshy pulp, in which the seeds are imbedded hori- 
zontally in a longitudinal series. Each seed is the size of 
that of a very large kidney bean, between orbicular and 
cordate, much compressed, even a little concave on one 
side, and firmly enclosed in a beautiful, yellowish-brown, 
but tough and almost coriaceous, reticulated mass of ves- 
sels quite distinct from the seed itself, whose integument is 
hard and thick, yellow-brown, on both sides marked near 
the margin with an elevated line, and in the disc, or 
centre, it is prettily embossed with many serpentine lines. 
Although the outside of this be brownish, the inside (or 
that next the almond) is a deep and almost bright yellow; 
and the intermediate part is arfine black. The whole in- 
ternal cavity is occupied by the Embryo, except a thin 
nembranaceous, brownish covering, adhering to it, which, 
perhaps, may be considered as Albumen. Cotyledons two, 
of the same shape as the seed, pure white, fleshy, and 
ther oily. Radicle inferior, small, conical. 
The genus Feuinzza of Linnaus, was instituted by 
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