148 CUCURBITACEJZ. (GOURD FAMILY.) 
4. P. angustifolia, Swartz. Lower leaves mostly 3-lobed, with the lobes 
lanceolate, obtuse, and entire; upper leaves simple, lanceolate, and acute ; peti- 
oles short, biglandular ; flowers small, solitary or by pairs, the peduncles short 
and bractless; petals none. — South Florida.— Stem 1°-2° long. Leaves 
sometimes entire. Flowers 4"— 6" wide, yellowish. Berry purple, as large as 
a pea. Filaments of the crown in 2 rows. Stamens occasionally 4. Stipules 
subulate. i 
5. P. Warei, Nutt. Leaves on short biglandular petioles ; the lower ones 
3-lobed, acute; the upper ovate or oblong, undivided ; stipules subulate ; pedun- 
cles commonly by pairs, about the length of the petioles; flowers very small; 
segments of the crown few, filiform, shorter than the calyx. — South Florida.— 
Probably identical with P. pallida of the West Indies. 
OrDER 61. CUCURBITACEZE. (Govrp Faurrr.) 
. Herbs, with succulent stems, climbing by means of lateral tendrils. 
Leaves alternate, palmately veined or lobed. Flowers axillary, mone- 
cious or dicecious. — Calyx 5-toothed, adnate to the ovary. Corolla of 5 
distinct, or more or less united petals, coherent with the calyx. Stamens 
3-5, free or variously united. Anthers long, straight or tortuous, com- 
monly connate. Ovary 1- 3-celled. Stigmas 3. Fruit (pepo) fleshy or 
pulpy, 1—3-celled. Seeds compressed, anatropous, without albumen. 
Cotyledons leafy. 
Synopsis. 
1. BRYONIA. Petals 5, distinct, or united at the base. Ovary 3-celled. Fruit 3-seeded, 
sm . 
2. m Petals 5, united into a campanulate corolla. Ovary 3-celled. Fruit 
many-seeded, smooth. 
3. SICYOS. Petals 5, united at the base into a rotate corolla. Ovary l-celled. Fruit 1- 
seeded, hispid. 
1. BRYONIA, L. 
Flowers moneecious -or dicecious. Calyx 5-toothed. Petals 5, distinct, or 
united at the base. Stamens 5, triadelphous: anthers tortuous. Style — 
€— Fruit ovate or globose, smooth, few-seeded. E 
ub A Boykinii, Torr. & Gray. Rough-pubescent; leaves broadly cor 
: pim 3-5-lobed; the lateral lobes entire or toothed, the middle one cuspidate ; 
sterile and fictive lowers intermixed, 3-5 in a cluster, short-pedicelled ; styles 
united ; fruit 3-seeded ; the seeds 3-toothed at the base. — River-banks, Georgia, — 
$ed westward. June and. July.— Stems elongated. Flowers greenish-white. - 
