280 BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 



nospermus. Semen funiculo filiformi, ex apice descendente 

 suspensum. 



38. Sicyos, Linn. 



1. S. angulatus, L.— 2. 5. Baderoa, Bert.— 3. S. vitifolia, W 4. S. 



pachycarpus, H. & A. 



Trib.Vl. Cyclanthere^, Sc/i/'arf. Flores monoici. Calyx 

 S-dentatus. Filamenta in columnam integram monadelpha, 

 apice in discuni depresso-orbiculatum explanatam : anlhevBe 

 in annuluni marginalem circa discum horizontaliter dispo- 

 sitse, oblongo-lineares, rectec. Ovarium uniloculare ? tri- 

 (vel pluri)-ovulatum. Fructus spinis mollibus obsitus, "car- 

 nosus, unilocularis, oligo-vel-polyspermus. Placenta centralis, 

 deorsum dependens, margine utrinque serainifera. Semina 

 horizontalia." Schrad. 



39. Cycla?iihera, Schrad- 



1. C. hystrix (_3Iomordica hystrix. Gill.,) cui fructus obliquus oligo- 



spermus, elastice dissiliens 2. C. Mathetvsii (Mathews herb. Peru v. 



n. 736.)— 3. C. digitata (Math. herb. Peruv. n. 298.)— 4. C. dissecfa 

 (Drummond herb. Texan. II. n. 39. Discanthera dissecta, Torr. and 

 Gray-) — Hue etiam pertinet C. pedata, Schrad. {Elaterium ribifolium, 

 Schl. in Linntea, vii. p. 388.) 



XXI.— BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 



Notes on Vegetation in Khorasaun. 

 The following interesting remarks on the vegetation about 

 " Bamean'' have recently been communicated from that place 

 by a highly talented Botanist, in a letter dated August 6, 

 1840:-- 



'« I have just come to this place from Cabul; but as I 

 was here nearly at the same season last year, I have met with 



' Schrader ascribes to this genus subglobose anthers : the whole mass 

 IS globose, but each anther is linear-oblong, applied vertically round the 

 capitulutn ; the cells appear to me to be not straight, but bent again 

 <iown wards. 



