Plantcs LindheimeriancB. 193 



397. Sicyos angulatus, Linn. Bottom woods of Comale 

 Creek, climbing trees. May. 



398. Cyclanthera dissect a, Am. in Hook. Jour. Bot. 

 3. p. 280. Discanthera dissecta, Torr. &/• Gray, Fl. 1. p. 

 696. Echinocystis pedata, Scheele in Linncea, 21. p. 586. 

 Margin of woods and hedges. June, in flower. — The genus 

 Discanthera is correctly referred by Prof. Arnott to Cyclan- 

 thera of Schrader. 



399. Cucurbita perennis : radice carnoso maxima ; foliis 

 strigoso-canescentibus cordato-ovatis vel triangulatis sursum 

 angustatis indivisis vel subsinuato-repandis margine denticu- 

 latis ; calycis lobis subulatis tubo oequalibus ; fructu globoso. 

 — Cucumis? perennis, James in Long's Exped. 2. p. 20; 

 Torr. in Ann. Lye. New York, 2. p. 242 ; Torr. $- Gray, 

 Fl. 1. p. 543. Plains and prairies, in dry, clayey or sandy 

 soil, near San Antonio and New Braunfels. May. — " Trail- 

 ing on the ground. Root from six inches to three feet thick, 

 fusiform, yellow inside." Fruit yellow, globose, two or three 

 inches in diameter." — This plant has been in cultivation in 

 the Cambridge Botanic Garden for the last two or three years, 

 from Texan seeds. It flowers freely, and has produced full- 

 grown fruit, which, however, has not ripened. Our plants 

 are dioecious, but it is monoecious, according to Dr. James. 

 It may be the Cucurbita foetidissima, H. B. K., as Dr. Torrey 

 long since suggested, but that plant is said to be an annual, 

 like the rest of the genus ; besides, ours is not fetid. In its 

 calyx, gamopetalous campanulate corolla, exappendiculate 

 anthers, and even in the tumid margin of the seeds (although 

 said by Dr. James to be acute) it accords with Cucurbita. 

 Mr. Fendler met with the plant at Santa Fe ; Dr. Gregg, 

 between Saltillo and Parras, and, according to Dr. Engel- 

 mann, " Dr. Wislizenus found the same plant in the moun- 

 tains of Chihuahua, with pyriform fruit." 



400. C. Texana: (an C. ovifera, var. ?) Tristemon 

 Texanum, Scheele in Linncea, 21. p. 586, & 22. p. 352. Mar- 

 gin of thickets, in moist woods, on the banks of the Upper 



