60 PLANTJS "VVRIGHTIAN^. VI. 



C U C U R B I T A C E ^ . 



Melothria pendula, Lhm. ; Gray, PI. Wright, p. 75. On the San Pedro, West- 

 ern Texas. 



SicTDiUM LiNDHEiMERi, Gray, PI. Lindh. 2. p. 194, Sf PI. Wright, p. 75. On the 

 Eio Frio, Leona, Howard's Creek, and San Pedro, Western Texas ; May, June. 

 (•1085.) — Berry an inch in diameter. 



S. LiNDHEiMERi, var. TEXuisECTUM, Gray, PL Wright. I. c. Valley of the Pecos, 

 June ; and New Mexico between Frontera and the Mimbres, July. (1086.) — The 

 New-Mexican specimens have small leaves, barely an inch in diameter, and com- 

 poundly dissected into lobes which are only a line in width. The globose berries 

 are from half to two thirds of an inch in diameter, 



Cucurbita perennls. Gray, PL Lindh. 2. p. 193. Along the San Pedro, West- 

 ern Texas; May. (1087.) — "Certainly monoecious. It exhales an unpleasant 

 smell when bruised." 



C. DIGIT ATA (sp. nov.) : radice perenni carnosa ; foliis 5-partitis subtus ramisque 

 hispido-scabris supra glabellis secus costas venasque pube brevissima sirpius albo- 

 variegatis, iniimis segmentis oblongis sinuato-lobatis, superioribus lobis linearibus 

 elongatis subintegris ; calycis lobis fl. focm. brevissimis, masc. obsoletis ; fructu glo- 

 bose. — Prairies, in loose, sandy soil, between the copper mines, New Mexico, and 

 Conde's Camp ; Aug. (1088.) — " Root large, fleshy. Branches prostrate, running 

 from 10 to 20 feet." The segments of the upper leaves are about 3 inches long and 



2 to 4 lines wide, either entire, or with one or two laciniate teeth or small lobes 

 towards their base ; those of the lower leaves are shorter, about an inch wide, and 

 considerably lobed or incised. Corolla 3 inches long, funnel-form, yellow. 



Apodanthera 1 UNDULATA (sp. uov.) : ciuerco-hispidula, caulibus e radice carnosa 

 maxima plurimis prostratis ; foliis rotundato-reniformibus iindulatis denticulatis 

 nunc sublobatis subtus strigoso-canescentibus ; floribus pedunculatis luteis, masculis 

 ex axillis infimis racemoso-corymbosis, foemineis ex superioribus axillis solitariis ; 

 tubo calycis maris tubuloso-infundibuliformi ; pepone ovoideo. — In valleys from 

 Eagle Springs to the Limpio ; June. (1382.) (Carizal, below El Paso, Wislizenus.) 

 — Root nearly as thick as a man's leg, penetrating two or three feet in depth, then 

 branching. Stems prostrate, extending from 3 to 8 feet, and with the foliage stri- 

 gose-cinereous. Leaves 2 to 6 inches in diameter, undulate and somewhat crisped, 

 green above. Staminate flowers all from the lowest axils ; the others, however 

 prolonged the stems, bearing solitary pistillate flowers only. Peduncles about 

 the length of the petiole ; or the sterile longer than the leaves, bearing several 

 flowers, on pedicels of one or two inches in length. Calyx-tube about an inch 

 long ; of the sterile flower narrowly tubular funnel-form ; of the fertile oblong- 

 urceolate, and little produced beyond the summit of the ovary ; the lobes subulate, 



3 lines long. Petals of the sterile flowers oblong, or oval, distinct, inserted by a 

 narrowed base, 9 or 10 lines long ; those of the fertile flowers nearly similar. An- 

 thers sessile or nearly so in the -throat of the calyx, lightly cohering, at length sep- 

 arate, three in number, two of them bilocular and one unilocular (soil. 5, triadelphous, 



