340 : CUCURBITACE X. ZANONIA. 
ORDER LXVIL—CUCURBITACEJE. Juss. 
Calyx 5-toothed, sometimes obsolete. Petals 5, distinct or more or 
less united, sometimes scarcely distinguishable from the calyx, strongly 
marked with reticulating veins, sometimes fringed. Stamens 5, dis- 
.tinct or triadelphous: anthers 2-celled (or rarely l-celled 7), usually 
long and sinuous, rarely ovate. - Ovarium adhering to the tube of the 
calyx, of 3 carpels, often spuriously l-celled: ovules solitary or inde- 
finite: style short; stigmas 3, 2-lobed, very thick, velvety or fringed. 
Fruit fleshy, usually a peponida *. Seeds usually ovate and compress- 
ed, enveloped in a juicy, or dry and membranous, arillus: testa coria- 
ceous, often thick at the margin. Albumen none. Embryo straight : 
radicle next the hilum: cotyledons foliaceous, palmatinerved.—Stem 
succulent, climbing by means of tendrils usually lateral and formed of 
abortive stipules. Leaves palmatinerved, alternate. Flowers usually 
unisexual. 
TRIBE I.—NHANDIROBER. St. Hil. 
Tendrils axillary, formed probably of abortive peduncles. Flowers diccious. 
I?. ZANONIA.  Linn.; Lam. ill. t. 816. 
' Flowers diecious.—Matr. Calyx 3-lobed. Petals 5, patent, united into 
a 5-partite rotate corolla. Stamens 5; filaments flat, connate at their base: 
anthers adnate, 1-celled (DC.)—F um. Calyx-tube cohering with the ovary : 
limb 5-lobed. Corolla as in the male. Ovary 3-celled. Styles 3, patent, 
bifid at the apex. Fruit fleshy, marked round the apex by a circular line, 
3-celled, opening at the top by 3 valves: placenta central, fleshy, large; - 
angled. Seeds ovate, with a large foliaceous border. Embryo without al- 
bumen, inverted.—Climbing glabrous plants. Leaves alternate, petioled, 
without stipules, ovate-elliptical or ovate-lanceolate, rounded or cordate at 
the base, quite entire. Tendrils axillary. Peduncles axillary, racemose. 
wer 
and Bart De Canola seater tn perdet a to th rues d 
have seen specimens, and the generic character given by him does not even apply to 
both his species. We have not seen specimens of any of the species. 
1050. (1) Z. Indica (Linn.:) leaves elliptical, acute, slightly cordate at the 
base: racemes axillary: ovary clavate, with 2 ovules in each cell: fruit 
oblong, elongated, tapering from the apex to the base, slightly S-angled.— 
no ti 3. p. 208 ; Spr. syst. 1. p. 932; Lam. ill. t. 816.—Rheed. Mal. 8. 
. 47, 48. 
* A pepo or peponida is a fleshy inferior fruit, either indehiscent or bursting irregularly, and consist- 
these » each of which is divided into two cells by its Edi US margin ed 
osing the general character of dissepiments, they might to disappear; and thus at 
pS moni be seid to be, and has been b danon 1-celled, fleshy, indehiscent fruit, vi 
Less centas that send out sometimes false dissepiments towards the axis, as the cucum 
