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Citrullus Citrullus (L.) Karst., WATER MELON, tropical African, exten- 

 sively grown in several races as a summer and early autumn fruit, has solitary 

 axillary yellow monoecious flowers, the corolla rotate, the staminate flowers 

 with separate anthers. [Cucurbita Citrullus L. ; Citrullus vulgaris Schrad.] 



Cncumis Melo L., MELON, MUSK-MELON, of southern Asia, of which 

 several races are grown, the fruits various. 



Cucumis sativus L., CUCUMBER, of southern Asia is also an important 

 crop, several kinds being successfully grown. 



Sicyos angulatus L., STAR CUCUMBER, WILD BRYONY, North American, 

 mentioned by Lefroy as of chance introduction about Church Cave, prior to 

 1879, and also recorded by Hemsley, and by H. B. Small, but not recently 

 observed in Bermuda, is a slender climbing vine, with thin angled leaves and 

 small whitish monoecious flowers, the staminate loosely racemose, the pistillate 

 capitate, these followed by small spiny fruits each with one seed. H. B. Small 

 records having seen a few rare specimens about Hamilton. 



Family 2. LOBELIACEAE Dumort. 

 LOBELIA FAMILY. 



Annual or perennial herbs, or rarely trees, often with a milky sap. 

 Leaves alternate, without stipules, simple. Inflorescence axillary or ter- 

 minal. Flowers perfect, or rarely dioecious, irregular. Calyx of 5 sepals. 

 Corolla often bilabiate, the tube open on one side nearly or quite to the 

 base. Stamens 5; filaments sometimes cohering into a tube. Ovary 2-.">- 

 celled; styles terminal, united; stigmas fringed. Ovules numerous, sessile, 

 horizontal, anatropous. Fruit a 1-several-celled capsule or a berry. Seeds 

 numerous, with a smooth or furrowed testa. Endosperm fleshy. Embryo 

 straight in the axis of the endosperm. About 20 genera and 600 species, 

 of wide geographic distribution. 



Lobelia Erinus L., SMALL BLUE LOBELIA, South African, a low species, 

 about 6' high, the lower leaves obovate or spatulate, the upper oblong or 

 linear, the slender-stalked blue or purple flowers about 2' broad, the corolla 

 2-lipped, is grown in vases and in flower-gardens. 



My only knowledge of the existence of any other representative of this 

 family in Bermuda is the record by Lefroy, of the cultivation of the North 

 American Cardinal-flower, Lobelia cardinalis L., as a garden flower, and the 

 statement of H. B. Small that it grew in a shaded place. It is a perennial 

 herb with terminal racemes of bright scarlet flowers, and thin, oblong to 

 lanceolate, acute denticulate leaves. 



Family 3. GOODENIACEAE Dumort. 

 GOODENIA FAMILY. 



Herbaceous or shrubby plants, with watery sap. Leaves alternate or 

 sometimes opposite, without stipules, entire, toothed or rarely pinnatifid. 

 Flowers perfect. Calyx 5-toothed, an entire border or sometimes obsolete. 

 Corolla 5-lobed, split on one side. Androecium of 5 distinct stamens, the 

 anthers opening lengthwise. Ovary mostly inferior, 1-2-celled ; styles 

 usually united. Stigma surrounded with an indusium. Ovules 1 or 2, or 

 more in each cavity, mostly erect or ascending. Fruit drupaceous, berry - 

 like or capsular. Seeds usually one in each cavity ; embryo straight in the 

 axis of the fleshy endosperm. About 12 genera and over 200 species, 

 mostly Australian. 



