322 LIV. CUCURBITACE*. _ [Steyos. ` 
flexuose anther-cells.. Ovary in the females 1-celled with 1 pendulous ovule, 
Fruit small, dry, ovoid or oblong, acute or beaked, usually cover - - 
prickles.—Prostrate or climbing herbs. Leaves angular or 3- 0 
Ter‘rils 3-branched.. Flowers small, the males in racemes Mee Wi 
duced to corymbs or clusters; the females pedicellate in the axils or some- — 
times in the same raceme with the 4 
The genus is spread over the warmer — of the New and the Old World. The ouly CH 
Australian species is a common Ameri 
1. S. angulata, Linn. ; DC. Prod. iii. 309. Stems rather slender, but ex- ` 
tending sometimes toa great length, glabrous or sparingly scabrous. Lea 
on long petioles, from broadly ovate-cordate to almost reniform, usually acutely 
3.angled or palmately lobed, the central angle or lobe the longest, of a thin 
texture and often 3 to 4 in. long or more. Male and female flowers o en in 
a small dense cluster on a very short peduncle. Calyx in the males 
above 1 line diameter and the corolla rarely 3 lines, the females still smaller. ; 
Fruits ovoid, "yu in. long, densely covered with barbed prickles.— ook. d 
f. PL Tasm. i. 143; S. fretensis, Hook. f. in Hook. Lond. Journ. vi. e^ 1 
8. >. australis Endl. Prod. Fl. Norf. 67; A Gray, Bot. Amer. Expl. E 
4 
T Moreton Bay, F. Mue 
N.S. Wales. Port Jackson and Bie ue stolas, R. nega Woolls. 
Victoria. B Banks of the Tambo and Gipps’ Land, F. Mue 
qae. Islands of Pe: s Strait, Gunn. and | 
Ac eed in tropical and N. ger widely dispersed over the Pacific isles 
ges Zealand 5 i, but not recorded reda Asia or EU 
ray distinguishes S. australis from M commo n American form chiefly by its smaller 
i» wers. It is not easy ois udge of this from drie ed specimen ns without s npn, ^ and the sz 
appears variable, but certainly i in some Australian specimens CR as large as in the comm" 
American forms. 
ORDER LV. FICOIDEZ. 
middle or to the "Ze into 5 or 4 rarely more op only 3 lobes or 
free or united i in a cup at the base; anthers with i parallel e 
or rarely with terminal stigma s or very short ; ovules 1, 2 oF 
cell usually eier on a basal pee more or less adnate | to 
opening locu oculicidally septieidally de both, in as pores S twice as 
valves as cells, or transversely cireumsciss or indehisce 
crustaceous or rarely —— or thick testa, eic ment: 
