WORTH AMERICAN 15 



cimen is from Arkanzas. 



754. Melotiiria punctata Raf. stem fili- 

 form angular, leaves cordate 5angular smooth- 

 entire or subdentate, thin glaucous with minute 

 black dots on both sides, petiols equal to leaves 

 filiform ; peduncles uniflore, berries red elliptic 

 oliveform smooth — sent me from New Orleans 

 by Dr, Riddell as the M. pendula, the dots ap- 

 pear black glands as in Hypericum, berries ap- 

 parently red in the specimen, shape and size of 

 a barberry. 



755. Melothria pendula (or edulis) L. 

 Brown, Lunan. Sw, and Antillian Authors. — 

 Seandent. petiols auriculate or alate, leaves 

 rough trilobe or triangular subcordate sinuate, 

 obtuse, fl. polyg. dioical, peduncles uniflore, 

 berries pendulous ovate black size of a nutmeg. 

 In Jamaica and the Antilles, totally unlike the 

 two others, fruit very large eaten when ripe and 

 pickled unripe says Lunan, probably also in 

 Florida and cultivated in Louisiana. 



756. RIDDELIA Raf. family Cleomides— 

 calix 5 sepals subequal, petals 5 unequal, sta- 

 mens filiform short, commonly 5 subequal in- 

 serted on a flat disk, ovary sessile oblong, stig- 

 ma sessile obtuse. Pod sessile, linear compres- 

 sed bivalve polysperme bilocular, partition 

 contrary to valves, edges thick flattened. Jtru- 

 tescent, leaves simple stipmate, alternate flow- 

 ers, extra-axillary solitary. — Another pretty 

 G. of the family Cleomidia, which now contains 

 25 at least, (see my reform of it ; ) this is re- 

 markable by habit and fruit near to the G. Pe- 

 ri toma, Warea, N. Vodolobiis R. or Stanley a 

 N. &c but distinct from all these, yet they all 

 belong to my family of Cleomidks, not a sec- 

 tion of Capparides. Dedicated to Dr. John 



