Lagenaria. CUCURBITACEiE. 543 



in a fleshy arillus. — Pedicels solitary, l-flowered, fiiiform, furnished with a 

 cordate bracteole. 



1. M. Charantia (Linn.) : stems more or less hairy or villous ; loaves 

 5-7-lobed, sinuate-toothed, when young more or less villous or hairy on tlie 

 under side jiarticularly on the veins ; peduncles slender, with a reniform 

 bracteole, which in the sterile flowers is situated about the middle, and in 

 the fertile near the base ; segments of the calyx oblong ; ovary slender ; 

 fruit oblong or ovate, tapering to both ends, more or less tuberculate ; seeds 

 with a thick notched margin and a red arillus. — Linn. spec. 2. p. 1009 ; 

 Bot. mag. t. 2455 ; Seringe, in DC. I. c. ; W. &^- Am. ! prodr. Ind. Or. 1. 

 p. 348. 



Near Tampa Bay, Florida, Dr. Burrows ! Dr. Leavenworth ! — " Indi- 

 genous," according to Dr. Leavenworth ; but we think this somewhat 

 doubtful. 



6. CUCUMIS. Linn. ; G<ertn.fr. I. 88 ; Lam. ill. t. 795. 



Flowers monoecious or perfect. Calyx tubular-campanulate ; the segments 

 subulate, scarcely the length of the tube. Petals (yellow) scarcely combined 

 or coherent with the calyx. Sterile Fl. Stamens 5, triadel^ihous. Fer- 

 tile Fl. Style short : stigmas 3 (occasionally 4), thick, 2-parted. Pepo 

 fleshy, indehiscent. Seeds ovate, compressed, not margined, acute at the 

 hilum. — Cucumber. 



1. C. 1 perennis (James) : perennial ; stems procumbent ; leaves triangu- 

 lar-cordate, thick, scabrous, the margin sinuate and undulate ; tendrils 3- 

 cleft ; lobes of the calyx subulate ; fruit globose, smooth, nearly sessile ; 

 seeds ovate (obovate ?), the margin acute. — E. James, in Long's exped. 2. 

 p. 345; Torr. in ann. lye. New York, 2. p. 242. Cucurbita foetidissima, 

 H. B. &; K. nov. gen. 2. p. 123 ? 



On the arid and sandy wastes along the base of the Rocky Mountains, 

 from the confluence of the Boiling-spring Fork to the sources of the Red 

 River, Dr. James. July-Sept. — Root fusiform, 4-5 inches in diameter, des- 

 cending perpendicularly into the earth to the depth of 4-6 feet. Flowers 

 nearly as large as in Cucurbita Pepo. Fruit as large as an orange. The 

 plant emits a fetid odor. James. — Since Dr. James's account, no farther 

 information has been received respecting this interesting plant; but speci- 

 mens of perhaps the same species occur in Drunimond's Texan collection, 

 without flowers or fruit. It is not cultivated, as Seringe states, but truly in- 

 digenous. 



7. LAGENARIA. Seringe, diss. in mem. soc. Genev., Sfin DC. prodr. I.e. 



Flowers monoecious. Calyx campanulate ; the segments subulate or 

 rather broad, shorter than the tube. Petals (white) obovate, inserted within 

 the margin of the calyx. Sterile Fl. Stamens 5, triadelphous : anthers 

 very long and tortuous. Fertile Fl. Style scarcely any : stigmas 3, thick, 

 2-lobed, granular. Fruit a fleshy or almost ligneous pepo, with a hard rind. 

 Seeds numerous, obovate, compressed, with a tumid border, 2-lobed at the 

 base. Root annual. 



1. L. vulgaris (Seringe) : clothed with a soft pubescence, and exhaling a 



