CUCUMBER FAMILY. 747 



ECBALIUM A. Rich. Diet. Class. Hist. Nat. f>19. 1824. 



One specios. Mediterrauean Europe. 



Ecbalium elaterium (L.) A. Rich. Diet. Class. Hisb. Nat. 619. 1824. 



Common Squirting Cucumber. 

 Momordica elaterium L. Sp. PI. ed. 2, 2 : 1434. 1763. 

 Fnuritive ou ballast. Mobile County, May. 18S3. Annual. 

 Economic uses: I'lie fruit is used niedioiually for Klateriuni. 

 Type locality: " J lab. in Europa australi." 

 Herb. Ceol. Surv. Hcrl). Mohr. 



MOMORDICA L. Sp. PI. 2 : 1009. 17r)3. 



Twenty-five species, tropical Asia and Africa. 



Momordica charaiitia L. Sp. PI. 2 : 1009. Balsam Pear. 



Tropical Asia, naturalized in warmer America. 



AOVKNTIVK FROM THE TKOPICS. 



Louisianian area. Georgia and Florida. 



Alabama: Ballast ground, waste places near the shipping. Flowers yellow; 

 August to Octolter. Fruit copper-red, seed coat crimson. Frc(|uent on every bal- 

 last heap, spreading to waste places in the vicinity. First collected in 1887. 

 Annual. 



Type locality: "'Hah. in India." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



LAGENARIA Seringe, Mem. Soc. Ehil. Gencv. ser. 3. 1 : 25. 182.5. 

 Half dozen species, tropical Asia and Africa. 



Lagenaria vulgaris (L.) Seringe, Mem. Soc. Pliil. Genev. ser. 3, 1 : 25. 1825. 



Common Gourd Calabash. 



Cucurhita laqenaria L. Sp. PI. ed. 2, 2 : 1434. 1763. 



Ell. Sk. 2:662. Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. A. 1:545. 1841. Coulter. Contr. Nat. Herb. 

 2 : 123. 



Subtropical and tropical regions of the Old World. P^xtensively naturalized in the 

 New World. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Regarded as introdnciul and naturalized in the 

 South Atlantic and Gulf States, although cultivated by the aborigines at the arrival 

 of the earliest settlers. 



Alabama: In the lower country, near dwellings, borders of pastures and fields. 

 Flowers white; throughout the summer. Fruit ripe September to November. Not 

 infrc(|uent. A rank coarse climber. Peremiial. 



Ecoruonic uses: The matured ligneous fruit, for vessels and various utensils. 



Ty]»e locality: "Hab. in Americae riguis."' 



Herb. Geol. Surv. 



TRIANOSPERMA Mart. Syst. Mat. Med. P.raa. 79. 1843. 

 Eight or 9 species, warmer America. 



Trianospsrnia boykinii (Torr. & Gray) Roem. Syu. Pepon. 2 : 45. 1846. 



Boykin's Bryony. 



Bryonia hoi/kinii Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. A. 1 : 540. 1840. 



Cayajionia boykinii Cogniaux in DC. Monogr. Phan. 3: 746. 1881. 



Chap. Fl. 148. 



Louisianian area. Georgia to Louisiana and Arkansas. 



Alabama: Central Prairie region. Low shaded banks. Wilcox County {S. B. 

 Buckley, ISiO). Flowers greenish white; .Tune, .July. Fruit ri))e August; red. Very 

 rare. Perennial herb from a fusiform root, climbing over bushes. 



Ty])e locality: "Low ground along streams, Georgia, Dr. Buykin! Alabama, Mr. 

 Buckley! Yjowisiann, Dr. Carpenter ! Dr. Hale!" 



Herb. Geol. Surv. 



MELOTHRIA L. Sp. PI. 1 : .35. 17.53. 

 Sixty species, warmer regions, Asia, America. North America. 2. 

 Melothria pendula L. Sp. PI. 1 : 35. 17.53. 



Ell. Sk. 2: 662. Grav, Man. ed. 6, 196. Chap. Fl. 149. Coulter, Ccmtr. X-it. Herb. 

 2 : 124. 



