73 MONADELPHIA. PENTANDRIA. 
upon the calix. Lepanthium a filamentose crown. 
Pepo (Berry L.) pedicellate. 
Generally climbing shrubs, rarely annual or perennial; 
leaves alternate and stipulate, simple, entire, 3-lobed or 
digitate; petiole naked or glandulous, tendrills axillary; 
gene 1 to 3-flowered, below the calix mostly articu- 
ted, the articulation subtended by a 3-leaved or 3-par- 
ted involucrum, the segments of which are entire or rare- 
ly dissected, the same involucrum sometimes minute, 1- 
leaved, or altogether wanting. The calix is properly 
speaking 10-parted, the 4 internal segments being mere- 
ly petaloid. 
Srecizs. 1.P. lutea, 2. incarnata. From Delaware to 
Florida. Fruit edible, subacid and spongy. 
A genus of 53 species, according to Persoon, exclusive- 
ly indigenous to the American tropics with the sole ex- 
ception of the 2 species in this Catalogue. 
470. PHILOXERUS. R. Brown. 
Calia 5-parted. Corolla none. Stamina 5, 
combined at the base into a small entire cup, 
shorter than the germ. inthers 1-celled. Stig- 
mas 2. Utriculus membranaceous, 1-seeded, 
valveless. 
Leaves ite, spi terminal, itate; flowers tri- 
. \ oe spikes terminal, capitate: 
Fe Spxcizs. 1. P. vermicularis. Illecebrum vermiculatum. 
_ L. Has. On the sea-coust of Carolina and Florida. Px. 
471. * OPLOTHECA.+ a 
- Calix double; exterior 2-leaved, scariose, con- 
volute, truncated and much shorter than the in- 
terior; interior calix monophyllous, semiquin- 
quifid and densely tomentose. Corolla none. 
epanthium cylindric, 5-toothed, staminiferous. 
simple, capitate, pubescent. Utriculus 
closed in the indurated muricate 
{From ¢#A0, armour and 2%%%, a sheath, in’ ailesion tothe. * 
seed ofthis plant being protected in an armed sheath. _ 
