﻿484 Small: Botany of the Southeastern United States 



The three following forms have been segregated as varieties of 

 Mdothria pendula by Prof. Cogniaux* but they are imperfectly 

 known. When better understood, two of them, and probably all 

 three, will prove to be distinct species. 



The appended descriptions and data are mostly taken from 

 Prof. Cogniaux's monograph.* 



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3a. Melothria pendula chlorocarpa (Engelm.) Cogn. in 



DC. Monog. Phaner. 3 : 587. 1881. 



Melothria cldorocarp 



1878 



Fruit yellow, 1.5 cm. long, 1 cm. thick : seeds 5-5.5 mm. long, 



3 mm. broad. 



Hall 



3b. Melothria 



Phaner. 3 : 587. 1881. 



Petioles hirsute : leaves 2-3 cm. long and broad, very scab- 

 rous on both sides, deeply lobed, lobes oblong, sometimes wholly 

 entire, obtuse; nerves hirsute beneath : fruit and seeds as in the 



species. 



J 



Melothria 



Phaner. 3 : 587. 1881. 



Stem creeping, filiform : petioles filiform, 1-3 cm. long : leaves 

 slightly lobed, 1.5-3 cm. long and broad, scabrous on both sides : 



fruit subglobose, 7-8 mm. thick. 



Shuttleworth now Brit. Mus., DC, Boiss.). 



(Rugel in herb. 



* DC. Monog. Phaner. 3 : 325-954. 



