816 / 0^ LXXIY. PASSIFLOREE. 
guste lineari-elongaiw, recte, sepalis multo longiores, versatiles, basi emarginatee, basifixse. 
. Owarii rudimentum 0 v. parvum. Fl.9: Calyx maris. Staminodia ... Ovarium ovoi- 
: deum, in stylos 2 filiformes productum ; ovula 4, placentis 2 parietalibus affixa. Fructus 
ovatus v. Subglobosus, 1-locularis, 1-spermus, pericarpio pergamentaceo. Semen basi loculi 
insertum, sessile, crassissimum, integumento externo coriaceo, interno lanoso, albumine 0 ; 
embryo erassus, cotyledone dente brevi acuto reflexoque (nempe cotyledone altera), e latere 
medio aueta constat ; radicula punctiformis.— Frutices (scandentes P) glabri, ramis teretibus. 
Folia alterna, cum petiolo brevi articulata, ovata lanceolata v. oblonga, coriacea, venulosa, . 
nitida, integerrima. . Stipule et eirrhi O. Flores virides, minuti (antheris magnis), in 
racemos graciles axillares ramosos dispositi, bracteolati. 
Species ad 2, Madaágascearienses,—Fl. 4. tantum vidimus, cetera ex T'ulasneo (in 4nn. Sc. Nat. Ser. 
4. viii, 58). Genus omnino anomalum, et non sine dubio ad caleem Passifforearum locatum. 
Onpo LXXV. CUCURBITACEZE. . 
Endl. Gen. 934; Lindl. Veg. Kingd.311. NANDIRHOBEE, Endl. Gen. 933. 
Flores monoici v. dioici. Calycis tubus ovario adnatus; limbus rotatus campanulatus 
v. tubulosus, 5- rarius 3- v. 6-lobus, lobis imbricatis. Petala 5, rarius 3 v. 6, calycis limbo 
insería, libera v. rarius gamopetala, szpissime cum calyce confluentia, rarissime unguicu- 
lata, interdum lobata v. fimbriata, valvata v. marginibus involutis. JS/amina ore v. basi 
calycis inserta, libera v. varie monadelpha, sspissime 3 (rarius 5, rarissime 1, 2, v. 4), 
quarum 1 unilocularis ceterz 2-loculares ; filamenta smpissime brevia, libera v.in tubum 
v. columnam connata. .Anthere filamento adnatze; libere cohszrentes v. in capitulum eon- 
fluentes, 1-2-loculares, loculis reetis curvis flexuosis v. conduplicatis, extrorsum dehiscen- 
tibus ; eonnectivum in paucis ultra loculos produetum. — Po/len globosum v. ellipsoideum, 
leve v.suleatum. Ovarium inferum v. in paucis apice tantum liberum, sepissime e carpidiis 
3 compositum, 3-loculare, rarius 1-2- v. spurie 4-6. loeulare; in E/aterieis gibbum, obliquum, 
loeulis 1 v. 2 effeetis v. spuriis, ceteris.inter ovula septatis (ovarium hinc multilocellatum) ; 
placent:ze parietales, earnosz, sspissime in axi ovarii confluentes. S/íylws terminalis, simplex 
v. apice divisus; stigmata. varia. Ovcw/a in ovariis monocarpicis l v. 2 apici v. basi 
loeüli inserta, in pleiocarpicis sepissime lateribus placentarum ovarii parieti proximis 
inserta, borizontalia pendula v. adscendentia, rarissime a basi loculi erecta anatropa, 
ssepissime pulpo nidulantia. Fructus sepissime baeca carnosa v. corticosa (Pepo dieta), 
indehiscens v. rarius valvatim v. operculatim dehiscens, 8Stepissime septis placentisve in. 
pulpam solutis 1. loeularis, in.paueis intus fibrosus, in .E/aterio affinibusque gibbus elastice 
ruptus axim seminiferam nudans, ssepissime 2o-spermus. Semina varia, sepius compla- 
nata, horizontalia erecta v. pendula ; testa membranacea v. erustacea, interdum epidermide 
aquosa induta, granulata tuberculata v. levia, marginibus dentatis lobatisve ; endopleura 
membranacea suberosa v. fungosa ; albumen 0. Embryo semini conformis ; cotyledones 
foliaces, compressz v. plano-convexee ; radicula brevis, hilo proxima v. sentrifuga Germi- 
natio epigza. 
Herbs v. suffrutices, succo aqueo, glabrz scaberule v. pubescentes, annus v. radice 
perennante, rarius frutices ; caulés seandentes v. prostrati. Folia alterna, petiolata, sim- 
'plieia divisa lobata palmaiipartita v. pedata, sspissime cordata et membranacea. Cirrhi 
dum adsint laterales, solitarii, simplices v. 2-o0-fidi, spiraliter torti. Flores sepissime 
paniéulati, rarius racemosi v. subumbellati, non raro solitarii, albi v. flavi, rarissime cerulei 
y. rubri. 
Species ad 470 nobis cogniti, regionum calidiorum et precipue iropiearum utriusque orbis incoli. 
Ordo valde naturalis, Passifloreis quam maxime affinis. 
"Genera Cucurbitacearum e speciminibus Herbario conservatis distinctu difficillima. — Notitia 
nostra hujus familie magnegpere extensa est e dom. Naudini assiduitate, quippe qui tot species 
'exoticas ni horto Parisiensi coluerit, quas in * Annalibus Scientis Naturalis * descripserit, Quamvis 
