194 Plantce Lindheimeriana. 



Guadaloupe, " apparently indigenous." September. This 

 has also been cultivated in the Cambridge Botanic Garden. 

 The column sometimes contains as many as four stamens. 

 The pyriform fruit is just that of C. ovifera, of which our 

 plant may possibly be only a naturalized variety. 



401. Lagenaria vulgaris, Seringe. Bottom woods, Co- 

 male Creek. September. Probably early naturalized. The 

 fruit is said to be globose. 



(612.) Sicydium (an Melothrise sect.?) Lindheimeri 

 (sp. nov.) : radice crassa perenni ; foliis subreniformibus 

 carnosis 3-5-lobatis partitisve et sinuato-dentatis tuberculis 

 vel pustulis subtus prominulis scabratis ceterum cauleque 

 glabris ; pedunculo in pi. mascula atque fceminea folio bre- 

 viore, masculo 3-9-floro, foemineo unifloro; calyce fl. masc. 

 infundibuliformi, foem. supra ovarium longe producto anguste 

 tubuloso, lobis petalis oblongis duplo brevioribus ; bacca 

 globosa rubra (diametro pollicari) ; seminibus abortu paucis 

 turgidis rotundatis subcompressis submarginatis hilo biden- 

 tatis. — Thickets, from New Braunfels to the Liano; pro- 

 cumbent or climbing. June. (Also gathered in Texas, by 

 Mr. Charles Wright.) — Root large and fleshy. Stems slen- 

 der. Leaves succulent, from one to three inches in diameter, 

 either moderately or deeply lobed. Flowers from one third 

 to half an inch in length, greenish ; the calyx of the sterile 

 tubular-funnel form. Stamens 3, subsessile in the throat of 

 the calyx ; two of them bilocular, the theca: separated by a 

 rather broad and slightly two-lobed connective ; the third of 

 only one theca (or, as taken by some authors, 5 and triadel- 

 phous) ; the loculi linear-oblong, straight. Fertile flowers 

 with the calyx-tube constricted above the globular ovary and 

 prolonged into a rather slender beak, then funnel-form like • 

 the sterile, but bearing rather longer subulate calyx-lobes. 

 Sterile filaments 3, short, one of them simple, the two others 

 two-cleft, subulate. Petals, as in the sterile flower, entire, ob- 

 scurely ciliate, oblong, a little narrowed below, unconnected, 

 separately inserted into the throat of the calyx. Style a 



